Katsumasa Shinohara, principal of Komadai Tomakomai High School、apologizes at a news conference in Hokkaido on March 3.

The school, known as Komadai Tomakomai, said team manager Yoshifumi Koda and a teacher in charge of the baseball team resigned over the incident. At a news conference, Katsumasa Shinohara, the principal, also expressed his intention to step down.

This is not the first time that Komadai Tomakomai has made headlines for the wrong reasons. Last year, it was revealed that a teacher overseeing its baseball team beat up a player.

The Japan Times Weekly: March 11, 2006
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