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...highly tribal atmosphere that characterizes competition football, fans of different teams rarely care to admit that they might have something in common. Yet over the past fortnight, supporters of Japanese J-League sides Urawa Red Diamonds, Cerezo Osaka and Gamba Osaka have indeed found themselves on common ground, over an uncommon event?losing a player to the high-profile, highly competitive European leagues...
...Ignoring widespread protests from human rights activists concerned that granting Beijing its Olympic dream will signal acceptance of its repressive political regime, IOC officials gave the nod to anxious Chinese officials, at 10 p.m. local time, choosing Beijing over chief rivals Toronto and Paris. Istanbul, Turkey and Osaka, Japan had also placed bids...
...reported that a Japanese madman stabbed eight schoolchildren in a suburb of Osaka [WORLD, June 18]. Some will argue that if knives were illegal in Japan (a country with a long history of swords and such), this awful attack wouldn't have happened. It's pretty absurd to claim that if knives and blades were made illegal now, this sort of killing would not happen in the future, but haven't we heard something like that before? KURT MAUSERT Saratoga Springs...
...Could the chilling note have been written by Mamoru Takuma, the 37-year-old man police say confessed to the knifings? Ikeda Elementary School, where 21 second-graders were stabbed, is affiliated with an Osaka university. Other evidence suggests Takuma, a drifter with a history of psychological problems, harbored resentment against the school. His father, long estranged from his son, told Japanese newspapers that Takuma once took, and failed, an exam there. Takuma was also accused, in 1999, of poisoning four teachers at another school by spiking water for tea with drugs. Osaka police refused to comment on the bulletin...
...psychologists are already diagnosing the case. "The noises children make sound good to many people, but for someone who feels victimized?and I think this suspect is probably one of them?those noises sound like children are mocking him," says Susumu Oda, a psychiatrist specializing in criminal cases at Osaka's Tezukayamgakuin University. "He worked in an elementary school and got fired. Now the subject of his resentment expanded to schools in general...