Ken Higurashi, principal of the Sakura Higashi junior high school, speaks to a reporter during an interview with Reuters at the school in Sakura, east of Tokyo, November 22, 2006. Japan has recently been gripped by news of suicides by school children over bullying. About a dozen teenagers have taken their lives since since early September. Picture taken November 22, 2006. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota (JAPAN)