Another school killing...Japan this time

[DC]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>December 21, 1999


Boy Killed in Schoolyard in Japan


By The Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy playing in a schoolyard in western Japan was
fatally stabbed by a teen-age assailant Tuesday, police said.


Toshiki Nakamura, a second-grader at Hino Elementary School, was running
around with several classmates when he was attacked, said Yoshiyuki Mitsuko,
police spokesman in Kyoto, 230 miles southwest of Tokyo. A young man came up
to the boy and slashed his neck and right arm with a six-inch-long blade,
Mitsuko said.


No one else was hurt. The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital but died 30
minutes later.


The attacker, who is still at large, left behind a note saying he had a
grudge against the school, according to Japanese media reports.


``I will tell you my name later. I will write a letter,'' he wrote in a
childish hand, according to the Asahi newspaper. ``So please do not come
after me. Do not find me.''


Six copies of the note were left at the school, the Asahi said in its
Wednesday editions.


The killing shocked relatively crime-free Japan.


Fears about crime, especially by youngsters, have been growing recently. The
debate over what many see as the lax treatment of juveniles intensified two
years ago after a teen-ager was convicted of murdering a schoolboy.


The teen was convicted in October 1997 of beheading 11-year-old Jun Hase and
leaving his head at a school gate with a sinister note stuffed in its mouth.
He was also convicted of murdering another girl.

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!

 

[10mmrules]

well, I suppose they will start Knife registration like Brittan, serial numbers, knife prints, a national database of knife owners.

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10MM Magnum.... tried the rest, now I got the best

 

[jimpeel]

For more on the Jun Hase murder and other Japanese killings go to:
http://www2.gol.com/users/hefej/dark1.htm#KOBE

Ignore the young lady in the upper right. I don't know what the Hell she's doing there unless she is supposed to be an example of the different set of values that parents feel are lacking.

I followed the murder of Jun Hase and made sure HCI got a copy. The police, at the time of the killing, were looking for an adult who, they felt, had been "casing" the school for some time. When they came up with a fifteen-year-old they about s--- their shorts.

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.

 

[jimpeel]

An interesting site on corporal punishment and the failure in schools and society at:
http://www.corpun.com/

This from:
http://www.corpun.com/jpsc8103.htm

Note how far back this debate has been going on.

Christian Science Monitor, 18 March 1981

Japan's school discipline crumbles

By Geoffrey Murray
Special to The Christian Science Monitor

Japanese educator Shoji Kimori believes the time may be ripe for return of the cane.

His revival of the old maxim, "Spare the rod, spoil the child," has added an emotional new element to the current national debate on classroom violence.

With teachers more and more often facing the threat of attack with baseball bats, knives, and even guns, Mr. Kimori, Kyoto superintendent of schools, recently told city assemblymen physical punishment of violent students was unavoidable.

He argued that the 1947 ban on corporal punishment, a reaction against stern prewar school discipline, was not relevant to the situation in today's schools.

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.

[This message has been edited by jimpeel (edited December 21, 1999).]