Japan's current education system was built on the assumption that students respected their teachers, and would show at least a modicum of respect. So teachers were able to conduct classes, and keep the students in line, despite not having any real recourse for disciplining the students. Nothing harsher than inconsequentially yelling at them anyway.
In the meantime, Japan has modernized, and lost all respect for teachers. The rules didn't. So now, idealistic (and often "dainty") young women enter the teaching profession, and are instantly totally ineffective. They have no means of disciplining students, because the studentso don't seek their teacher's approval.
The students are also bound much more to one another than to the teacher. They stay in the same class all day, while the teachers come and go from "their space". The teachers rotate schools over and over, reinforcing their status as "outsiders" all the more.
That's probably why two female teachers I know have had to take recurring sick leave while hospitalized for clinical depression.
I'd like to see some means for formally disciplining students introduced in the japanese education system.... 's'all I'm sayin'.
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