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Crime is the one thing Japan was always happy to admit was best made in America. But a teen killing spree is starting to give the lie to the idea that Japan is preternaturally immune from violence. Last week a 15-year-old boy on southern Japan's Kyushu Island slipped into a neighbor's house after dark and attacked six slumbering family members with a knife one by one, killing three. "Oh, no, not again," said Mikiko Takahashi, 46, the mother of two boys. "Our society must be out of order...
...contact with the outside world, often for years, into adulthood. "I didn't want anyone to see me, and I didn't want to see anyone," says a hikikomori, 23, who finally came out of his reclusive world a year ago. Some of those accused in the crime spree--including the bus hijacker and a man who kidnapped a girl and held her captive for 10 years--have been identified as hikikomori. Experts estimate that there are 50,000 to 1 million hikikomori. Fear of them has suffused the headlines. In a bizarre twist two months ago, a father...
...pleaded not guilty, worked security for Butler in the 1990s. Another ex-security chief, Eldon Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans who had gone on a crime spree in the 1980s. "It was only a matter of time" Dees argues, "before the unfit, untrained, unsupervised members of the security force attacked someone they thought was the 'enemy' in the 'war' with the Jews...
BUMPER CROP Something about the N.A.A.C.P., visited by both candidates last week, brings out the promises in folks. George W. shook off his birthday-week slump and beat his own record for pledges. Gore continued the previous week's spree...
Last week's incident is the third reported armed robbery on campus this year. Two others took place on the evening of February 22 when a group of four teenagers went on an evening crime spree, robbing two undergraduates at gunpoint before committing two more robberies in Cambridge...