Kobe City: Holding of the 2023 Kobe Bullying Prevention Forum

Press Release (December 21, 2023)
Children and Students Division, School Education Department, Board of Education
The Kobe Bullying Prevention Forum has been held since 2022 to introduce the voluntary efforts of the city’s students toward bullying prevention and to further raise students’ interest in bullying prevention. The “Kobe Bullying Prevention Forum” has been held since 2022, and will be held again this year as follows.

1 Date and Time

　Tuesday, December 26, 2023, 14:00-15:30

2 Place

　Kobe City General Education Center 10th Floor Hall (1-3-2 Higashikawasaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe)

3 Participants

　Representative students from municipal elementary and junior high schools (approx. 150) and others (approx. 250)

4 Contents (tentative)

(1) Awards and introduction of anti-bullying awareness-raising works [Poster and video categories]
(2) Presentation of anti-bullying efforts by representative schools [1 elementary school and 1 junior high school]
(3) Introduction of anti-bullying message video [Vissel Kobe player Satoshi Yamakawa]
(4) Lecture on bullying prevention [Kintarou. (Shochiku Entertainments)]
(5) Declaration on Bullying Prevention [representative children]

5 About the coverage of the event

On the day of the event, please enter your name at the reception desk. Please fill in your name at the reception desk on the day of the event and wear the armband of your company.
Please enter the venue from 1:30 p.m. Seats are available in the back of the hall, but please take photos in the aisles (stairs) on either side of the hall.
When photographing students, please be careful not to identify individuals, including those in the audience.
Please refrain from interviewing students individually.
Please refrain from taking video or interviewing the speakers in the “Anti-bullying Lecture” described in 4.4 above.
If you wish to attend the event, please call the Children and Students Section at 078-984-0724 by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, December 25.