Osaka School Massacre
The school massacre in Osaka (Japanese:附属池田小事件, Fuzoku Ikeda Shōjiken) was a school shooting , which is in the on 8 June 2001 primary school Ikeda , one of the Pedagogical University of Osaka elite primary school affiliated Ikeda in the Japanese prefecture of Osaka occurred, .
At 10:15 a.m. that morning, former caretaker Mamoru Takuma entered the school with a kitchen knife and stabbed numerous students and teachers. Eight children, seven of them girls, died from their injuries. Thirteen other students and two teachers were seriously injured.
Because of the young age of the victims and the previous or medical history of the perpetrator, the act in Japan raised questions about the treatment of the mentally ill, the rights of offenders and victims, and the accessibility and safety of schools. After the fact, the head of the school announced that a guard would be set up there in the future. This was a first for Japanese schools.
Hikaru Utada rearranged her song Distance and dedicated it to one of the victims under the title Final Distance .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Japan mourns stabbing victims. CBS , June 8, 2001, accessed May 3, 2008 .
- ^ Human Rights in Japan - Extrajudical, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. In: Project on Extrajudical Executions. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law, archived from the original on November 19, 2009 ; accessed on April 9, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Jonathan Watts: Japan reviews policy on mental illness and crime . In: The Lancet . Volume 358, No. 9278 . Tokyo July 28, 2001, p. 305 , doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 05527-1 .