On this date, 8 June 2001, The Osaka
School Massacre took place on June 8, 2001, at Ikeda Elementary School, an
elite primary school affiliated with Osaka Kyoiku University in Osaka
Prefecture, Japan. We, the VFFDP, will not forget the eight Japanese children
murdered in the mass stabbings. The killer, Mamoru Takuma was executed by
hanging on 14 September 2004. We got the information from Wikipedia.
The attack
At 10:15 that morning, 37-year-old
former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and
began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children,
mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen
other children and two teachers.
Aftermath
Takuma was diagnosed with Borderline
personality disorder, Antisocial personality disorder, and Paranoid personality
disorder. He was later convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. The
sentence was carried out on September 14, 2004. The Osaka School Massacre was
the second largest mass murder, along with the Matsumoto incident,
in recent Japanese history, both crimes exceeded only by the fatalities caused
in the Sarin
gas attack on the Tokyo subway. This incident, however, was set
apart by the young age of the victims, by its occurrence at a school, and by
the murderer's history of mental illness. Because of these factors, the Osaka
School Massacre raised questions in Japan about the country's social policies
regarding the treatment of mental illness, the rights of criminals and victims,
and the accessibility and security of Japanese schools.
After the attack, Yoshio Yamane, the
principal administrator of the school, announced that it would receive a
security guard, an at-the-time unheard-of feature in Japanese schools.
Additionally, J-Pop artist Hikaru Utada rearranged her song Distance in
honor of Rena Yamashita, one of the murdered schoolgirls (because of an essay
contest she had won, talking about how she respected and wanted to become like
Hikaru), retitling it Final Distance.
Deceased
victims
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