City mayor apologizes over schoolboy's suicide

City mayor apologizes over schoolboy's suicide

OTSU, Japan - Naomi Koshi, mayor of Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, answers reporters' questions at the city hall on July 25, 2012, after meeting the father of a boy who committed suicide in October 2011, allegedly as the result of school bullying. Koshi apologized to the boy's father, saying the school and local education board did not properly investigate the case.

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