A recent bullying case that led to a boy committing suicide has horrified Japan. "People have pointed to how there's too much academic pressure on adolescents in Japan which creates stress and leads to bullying in schools," says Sachiko Horiguchi, an anthropologist at Temple University, Japan Campus. Horiguchi, however, believes the problem is far more complex and bullying is certainly not an issue peculiar to Japan. But one issue recurring in Japan is "the problem of the school and the Board of Education failing to accept the fact there's some bullying," Horiguchi says.