In 2022, the Japan Student Baseball Association banned Kanaashi Agricultural High School in Akita from outside games for three months, after bullying within its baseball club.
In draft disciplinary standards, the association itself named the problem of rentai sekinin, joint responsibility. Punishing a team for one member’s violation, it wrote, imposes a penalty on members who did nothing wrong and has been called unreasonable. A President Online article notes that in recent high school baseball, when there is no organized involvement by several members, punishment as a rule stays with the members concerned.