Japanese parents and sports coaches need to stop hitting children

Damning report offers chance to end culture of corporal punishment in sport

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The abuse of child athletes is fundamentally a human rights issue. (The photo shown does not depict the actual individual concerned) © Reuters

Takuya Yamazaki, a Japanese Attorney-at-Law, is the founder of Field-R Law Offices, a niche sports and entertainment legal practice based in Tokyo.

The shocking revelations contained in the report "I Was Hit So Many Times I Can't Count," released by Human Rights Watch on July 20 exposing the abuse of child athletes in Japan, came as no surprise to those of us close to the world of Japanese sports administration.

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