Teamwork or torture?


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While Japan’s Kumitaiso sessions are part of its physical education curriculum, it has resulted in severe injuries to pupils prompting parents to campaign for a ban of these bone-breaking exercises.

RUSHED in for emergency surgery to stop bleeding on the brain, doctors at Matsudo City Hospital said the child was lucky to be alive. Others have come in with spinal fractures, broken ribs, and shattered limbs.

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