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This is horrible. It's worth posting b/c many of the standard, popular "blames" for tragedies like this in the US, don't apply.

The logical course is to stop listening to the lackwits who insist that there needs to be "tighter gun control" and "more education".

A consistent assessment of the problem is needed.*

TOKYO (Reuters) - A stunned Japan was searching for answers on Wednesday after an 11-year-old schoolgirl killed a classmate by slashing her throat, the latest in a string of violent crimes by children.

Japan, which had long prided itself on being relatively crime-free, has in recent years been confronted by an increasing number of gruesome youth crimes that have prompted it to lower the age of criminal responsibility.


Teachers and friends said the 11-year-old had shown no sign of trouble and described her as just like any other girl, adding to the shock.


"It is difficult to imagine how such a very serious incident could come from such an ordinary girl from an ordinary family," said the head of a child welfare center that took custody of the girl.


Twelve-year-old Satomi Mitarai died from loss of blood after she was attacked by the classmate, said to be her friend, with a knife during the lunch break on Tuesday at their primary school in Sasebo, 980 km (610 miles) west of Tokyo.


There was no obvious motive for the attack, but Japanese media said the 11-year-old told police that she had been upset at Satomi for posting a message about her on a Web site and that she had intended to kill Satomi over it.


The Yomiuri Shimbun daily reflected the general bewilderment, asking in an editorial, "What sort of connection did these two have? What set it off? Nothing is known."


Police said the 11-year-old had called Satomi to a study room where she attacked her and then returned to the classroom with her clothes bloodstained.


Child welfare workers said the girl repeatedly apologized for the crime, covering her face with her hands as she wept, according to media reports.


The victim's widowed father, who lived alone with her and her older brother, said he was in shock.


"That my daughter could no longer be with me is unbelievable. But the unbelievable has happened," Kyoji Mitarai, the local bureau chief of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, told reporters.


"She was like air to me," he said.


RISING CRIME, TIGHTER LAWS


The killing appeared especially shocking because of the age of the children involved and the fact that both were girls.


Officials said the girl in Tuesday's incident would appear before a family court, which could send her to a special reformatory for children.


Children under 14 cannot be prosecuted.


In 1997, a 14-year-old schoolboy horrified the nation by murdering two children and leaving the severed head of one of them outside the gates of a school in Kobe, western Japan.





That crime prompted calls for harsher penalties against juveniles, and a law was enacted in 2001 lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14.

The number of serious crimes by juveniles has continued to rise, however, with the ages of offenders falling.

Last year, a 12-year-old boy in the city of Nagasaki, which is near Sasebo, confessed to abducting and murdering a four-year-old by pushing him off the roof of a garage.

According to police figures, the number of minors aged 14 to 19 who committed serious crimes such as murder and robbery rose 11.4 percent to 2,212 in 2003, while the number of offenders under 14 rose 47.2 percent to 212, topping the 200 level for the first time in 16 years.

There have been eight cases where primary school children have committed or attempted murder in the last 15 years.

Police have drawn up new guidelines on fighting juvenile crime, but editorials on Wednesday said more fundamental measures may be needed.

"We must make children understand even more the basic importance of life," the Yomiuri said.
06-02-2004 01:46 PM
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*As a follow-up (and b/c you need to subscribe to see this w/ just a link) I submit this for your consideration:

December 18, 2000
No. 001218
Makin' a List, Checkin' It Twice
The Acculturation of Violence

"Makin' a list and checkin' it twice" is a better idea than ever this year as parents get ready for Christmas. When your kids compile their wish list, you need to be aware that some games may not just be a choice between "naughty and nice." Some could actually be lethal.

Am I exaggerating? Not according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a former West Point psychology professor and Army Ranger who now teaches at Arkansas State University.

In his research in "killology," the study of killing in combat, Prof. Grossman has found that the vast majority of soldiers, even in "kill or be killed" situations, are very reluctant to shoot. But kids today, he warns, are learning just the opposite: that killing is okay and that a well-aimed bullet solves problems.

Grossman documents his findings in two books: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, published in 1996, and Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, co-authored with Gloria DeGaetano in 1999.

During warfare, Grossman says, a small minority of soldiers -- about 15 percent -- actually do any killing. And most of these feel revulsion when they do it. The other 85 percent either refuse to fire or deliberately miss the target.

In recent years, the military has devised techniques to raise the firing rate to 90 percent -- using techniques based on the behavioral psychology of Pavlov and B. F. Skinner.

Pavlov, you may recall, taught dogs to salivate when they heard a bell ring. Combat training uses the same kind of conditioned response to make soldiers stop thinking with the forebrain and react with the midbrain: the reflexive, animal-like portion of the brain. In other words, they're conditioned to respond to a moving target with a "don't think, just shoot" reaction.

How does that work? Grossman says, "The soldier stands in a foxhole with full combat equipment, and man-shaped targets pop up briefly in front of him. These . . . eliciting stimuli . . . prompt the target behavior of shooting. If the target is hit, it immediately drops, thus providing immediate feedback."

But here's the scary part. Many video games use the same techniques, but without the controlling restraints of the military environment. Soldiers only shoot and kill on orders, and firing without orders brings serious punishment.

But what happens when kids play violent video games? They learn the same hair-trigger behaviors and an us- versus-them attitude -- but without the context of obedience to a command.

One expert calls violent video games "murder trainers." And Grossman agrees, saying that violent media are not just conditioning people to be violent, but are also developing hand-eye coordination of the trigger finger -- teaching the very mechanics of killing.

So parents, when your kids make that Christmas list, check it twice. And you might want to visit our BreakPoint website, which will tell you how to get a printed copy of The Family New Media Guide -- covering not just computer games, but also films, audio tapes and online services.

These resources will help you shop wisely for Christmas -- to know which games on your children's "must have" list, are actually dangerous devices they "must NOT have!"


For further reading:

Grossman, David. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Grossman, David and Gloria DeGaetano. Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence. New York: Crown Publishers, 1999.


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Yes.

Studies showed that all American and British combat troops serving in combat zones during WW2 had very low overall percentages of actually discharging their weapons at the enemy.

Less than 15% of all allied combat soldiers in any theatre during WW2 did not fire their rifles.

Since allied bombadiers who did reach their targets had an almost 85% rate of opening the bombay doors, and while almost 92% of all allied artillery crews serving in combat zones during that war actually deployed ordnance upon the enemy, the Army psychiatrists and pyschologists conducting the study found that there is a correlation of fire-mass when individual soldiers can see their enemy.

More controversial, the same researchers who did accompany British and American units into combat surmised that the same numbers were consistent with the enemy--the Japanese, Italians and Germans.

I can't remember the men who wrote the study, but I'll try to find it and post a link.
06-02-2004 05:39 PM
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Geez, and I thought Japaneese people were harmless, after reading that it shocks me.
06-02-2004 07:01 PM
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Hardcore Husky Wrote:Geez, and I thought Japaneese people were harmless, after reading that it shocks me.
You are a funny man
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Correction: 'Teenager' 04-rock
06-03-2004 08:15 PM
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Remember "Guns dont kill people, people kill people" or correction "Hollywood movies kill people"
06-04-2004 09:27 AM
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No.....The gun does because its the one that fires the bullet at the person. You just said that the person fires the trigger with out the gun. WTF?????
06-04-2004 07:36 PM
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Hardcore Husky Wrote:No.....The gun does because its the one that fires the bullet at the person. You just said that the person fires the trigger with out the gun. WTF?????
:eek: A person who wants to commit murder will do so no matter if they have a gun or not, people miss the point entirely on this subject. People see people getting blown to shreads and movies and think its cool, thats why people dont properly respect guns.
06-05-2004 02:03 AM
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There are a lot of reasons that the U.S. sees so many killings with guns. Maumee hit on one contributing factor. There are many more.
06-05-2004 05:06 AM
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