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Help me!" the schoolchildren detected the feeble, desperate cry from a nearby classroom in an elementary school in Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka in western Japan. Then they heard more screaming. In a first-floor classroom, second-graders were just finishing up a music class when a large man in cream-colored trousers dashed madly toward them, rambling incoherently as he wielded a 6-in. kitchen knife. He stabbed three boys standing by a chalkboard. When a girl tried to flee, he chased her down a corridor. "Run! Run!" a child yelled. A teacher threw a chair...
Help me!" the children in a second-floor classroom heard the feeble, desperate cry from downstairs in an elementary school in Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka in western Japan. Then the screams grew louder. On the first floor, second-graders were just finishing music class when a large man in cream-colored trousers madly dashed toward them, muttering incoherently as he attacked pupils with a lethal 15-cm-bladed kitchen knife. He stabbed three boys standing by a chalkboard. When a girl tried to escape, he chased her down a corridor. "Run! Run!" a second child yelled. A teacher threw...
...What made last week's tragedy so hard to comprehend was the young age of its victims. Why this school? Why these kids? Ikeda Elementary School, affiliated with a teacher-training college, Osaka Kyoiku University, is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated Elite?doctors, lawyers, professionals?and the school is located on a spacious, leafy campus in a quiet neighborhood. Graduates often eventually go on to enroll in top universities. "If it were a person who had something specific against the school, maybe...
...Force after one year for unknown reasons, and worked as a bus driver. In 1998 he was employed as a school janitor. A year later he was arrested on suspicion of drugging four teachers who were hospitalized after consuming tea he had brewed while working at an Osaka elementary school. Takuma was fired from his job, but he wasn't prosecuted: a judge ruled he was mentally incapable of taking responsibility for the crime. He was committed to a mental health hospital for less than a month. Said Takuma at the time: "My wife wanted to divorce...
...Olympic inspectors. "We paid all our own bills," said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the evaluation commission. "The bid cities bought us one meal-usually a very good meal-but that's all." Last week in Lausanne the evaluation commission issued its 108-page report. Two cities, Istanbul and Osaka, were found lacking, thus virtually killing their chances of being chosen. The commission said that both places had serious flaws in their financial plans that could not be overcome. The Japanese claimed the commission had jumbled the figures on Osaka's public finance obligations to the tune of $25.5 billion...