Sorry, I seem to have been highjacking the thread to student-pseudos. Obviously, I have to know who is taking part.
However, in my teaching situation this would not do, since I am actually assessing my students' participation in the forums of my English for specific purposes courses (both quantitatively and qualitatively). I appreciate that there may be a number of situations (not just for the cultural reason you mention) where allowing the students to take part in discussions under a pseudo might be desirable. However, the starting point of this thread was about the teacher (not students) using a pseudo, in order to regulate, etc.
Given those conditions, I expect that, even in a traditional, face-to-face teaching situation, it must be quite hard for a teacher - especially a foreign/second language teacher - to get the students to talk. To a western mind, this is amazing/interesting. Japan to force students to express their opinions (private/personal >It is in breach of the protection of privacy of information law in
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