ABSTRACT
An eighth grader in Nishio. Aichi Prefecture. Ôkôchi Kiyoteru, hanged himself on November 27. 1994. It was later found that he had been a victim of persistent bullying. His tormentors had been his classmates, whose methods of torture included repeated demands for large sums of money. A day before Ôkôchi killed himself, he had received yet another impossible demand, this time for ¥120,000.
