Do schools in Japan have security cameras located in the building, or have guards roaming around? What things do the schools do to make sure the students are safe? Are they similar to the security in the U.S ?
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Japanese school security is a joke. It's nothing like the US. A few JPN school I've been inside have cameras but they were almost never monitored. There are no guards, no security personnel. People unaffiliated (non-students, non-teachers) with the school are required to sign in but that's about it. Signing in doesn't stop someone with a knife intending to kill kids (which happened at an elementary school about 10 years ago north of Tokyo). Schools have invasion and lock down drills: if the school were to be attacked by a criminal the drills help the staff prepare and they are helpful. Japan is a very safe country so this is just my opinion but a lot of times the schools are more at risk from their own students. Discipline in Japanese schools is horrible. Once the kids figure out they can't be kicked out school (because of a constitutional right to education) a handful of them lose their minds and do whatever they want. A friend of mine, female teacher, was beaten and hospitalized for over a month because of a student. Literally nothing happened to the student. No punishment, nothing. It sounds hard to believe but it is the absolute truth. I hear first hand accounts of this kind of thing all the time and have witnessed a few in person. The western world has a skewed view of Japan in my opinion. It takes living here to see this country for what it really is. I don't mean that to come off bad, but it's just different than what most people think. Are Japanese schools more safe than not safe? Absolutely, without question. But having security and being generally safe are two different things. Security is almost non-existent but again the schools are more safe than not. Hope this helps.
