<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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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!