


A Romanian boy who stabbed a young Tokyo woman in the back in a mugging has explained that “stabbing her was simpler than threatening her” and that he needed her money “as I spent all mine at the arcade.”
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Japan’s total suicides in 2012 dropped below 30,000 for the first time in 15 years, according to official statistics – dropping by some 9%.
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The Internet is aghast at grisly pictures which purportedly show a protester who was gruesomely flattened with a steamroller by Chinese government enforcers, after he dared to oppose a local land grab.
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A female rapist who repeatedly stabbed her victim after he refused to have sex with her again has shocked Romania, although unsympathetic souls there seem to have been almost as shocked that a man would refuse such advances.
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Yet another hikikomori has stabbed to death his mother, in this case “for not being kind enough” after he resolved to stop being a hermit.
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A boy has been arrested for using a hammer to attempt to dash out the brains of the headteacher who oversaw fatal bullying and subsequent cover-up at his Shiga school, in a rare case of violent vigilante action.
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A hikikomori who murdered the sister who had helped support his 30 years of reclusion has been given a 20 year prison sentence for murder, with the judge ruling that the 16-year sentence sought by the prosecution was too lenient and dismissing the defence’s arguments that it was all the fault of Asperger’s syndrome out of hand.
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The scandal surrounding the 13-year-old Shiga prefecture schoolboy who was only able to end his bullying by leaping from his apartment block continues to deepen, with teachers apparently still of the opinion that bullying had nothing to do with his death and that they are being unfairly scapegoated for not doing anything at all to help him.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 11, 2012 21:07 JST
- Tags: Crime, Litigation, Murder, Police, Politics, Schoolboys, Shiga, Suicide, Teachers

Police have raided the school and city hall at the heart of the recent Shiga schoolboy suicide scandal, even as ever more disturbing details of the abuse he suffered and the lengths the school went to cover it all up continue to emerge.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 8, 2012 18:58 JST
- Tags: Crime, Litigation, Murder, Police, Politics, Schoolboys, Shiga, Suicide, Teachers

The case of a schoolboy driven to jump off a building after relentless bullying at the hands of his classmates – apparently with the active participation of his teachers – has outraged Japan, as much as have the insistent attempts of his teachers and even local police to deny the bullying had anything to do with his death.
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Nitroplus’s music producer has had the incredible misfortune to have been stabbed to death in a random knife attack on the streets of Osaka.
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A car chase has ended with police shooting dead the car’s yakuza driver after he repeatedly attempted to ram his way past police.
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