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More About Japanese Baseball (Part 6 of 6)
American expatriate author Robert Whiting talks about Japanese high school hazing. He says, "... You can't build character without suffering, and that's what the upperclassmen are trying to do to the lowerclassmen, either with physical punishment or verbal harassment."
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