On Wednesday, we published an article with the title Japan Bullying and Suicides in the International News. At the time, what struck us as being notable about the coverage was the absence of US-based sources. That has changed.

Several US media sources, and especially the Associated Press, have picked up on the ongoing saga over the past few days. Here’s a look at what’s been published:

Monsters and Critics started it off of November 15th with an article called Bullying is Behind Teen Suicide Wave in Japan.

On November 16th, the issue was quiet in US sources, but on the 17th, the AP story was released and appeared all over the Western media:

The San Fransisco Chronicle ran it as, “Japan Ed Minister Seeks to Stop Bullying.” Forbes affixed the headline, “Japan Ed Minister Seeks to Stop Bullying.” The Seattle Post Intelligencer published the story with the same headline, but different capitalization: “Japan Ed minister seeks to stop bullying.”

The AP story was also picked up by the West Central Tribute in Minnesota, the Houston Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, West Fargo Midweek, Hudson Star Observer (WI), San Diego Union Tribune, Dateline Alabama, Jordan Falls News (IA), the Akron Farm Report (NE), the Kindred Times (UT), the Times Picayune, the Biloxi Sun Herald, FOX News (who added a paragraph blaming Clinton not only for the bullying, but also for the timing of the story’s release), and many others.

It was also published in France by the International Herald Tribune under the title, “Report: Japan’s education minister urges children to stop bullying“, and by the Guardian Unlimited as, “Japan Ed Minister Seeks to Stop Bullying.” Other international English-language media outlets picked up the story in Canada, the UK and Australia.

Two original articles worth mentioning have also been published in the past few days. ABC news from the US, who has reporters on the ground in Tokyo, published “Japan in Anguish as Bullied Kids Commit Suicide” on Saturday. On the same day, the Taipei Times published “Media possibly fueling teen suicides in Japan,” one of the first articles to examine the media’s role in the ongoing national tragedy.