Osaka school massacre

On, June 8, 2001, 37-year old Mamoru Takuma armed himself with a kitchen knife with a six-inch blade, entered the Osaka Kyoiku University Ikeda Elementary School and stabbed children. He killed eight children, including five girls in the second grade, and wounded 18 children and 3 teachers. Takuma was sentenced to death by hanging.

This case closed up many problems in modern Japan, especially human rights both of criminals and of victims and their family, the social attitude to psychological patients and personality disorder suffered people and the balance between a recent idea "the school easily accessible to its local community" and security of schools.

See also

• School massacre

• CNN Article about the stabbing