Middle school teacher corporal punishment: student pinned against pillar, fractured skull... "I got emotional"

[Yomiuri Shimbun] On the 12th, the Hyuga City Board of Education in Miyazaki Prefecture announced that a male teacher (in his 30s) had physically punished a student at a public junior high school in the city by pushing him against a pillar in the hallway. According to interviews with parents, the student suffered a skull fracture.