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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread

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To: Ish who wrote (10393)6/19/2001 6:48:20 PM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (2) of 59480
 
The insanity is spreading...

Knife-Wielding Woman Storms Japanese Kindergarten
6-19-1

TOKYO (Reuters) - A woman wielding a knife stormed into a Japanese kindergarten in the capital, Tokyo, on Tuesday, injuring one female employee, Kyoto news agency said.

The attack came less than two weeks after eight children were killed, and 13 students and two teachers wounded, when a former janitor with a history of mental illness walked through the open front gates of a prestigious elementary school at mid-morning, entered classrooms and began stabbing children at random.

Police said the attack occurred at a kindergarten run by a private university and one person had been slightly hurt. They declined to give any details of the attacker.

Kyodo said the attack took place at around 8:15 a.m. local time in the kindergarten in Tokyo's Suginami Ward.

The latest attack will fuel concerns in Japan over rising violence in a nation long proud of its safety from crime.

The attack, which comes amid a rise in high-profile violent crime and in incidents where children's safety has been threatened when strangers easily gained access to school premises, may prompt a shaken Japan to stiffen its laws on crimes by mentally ill people and to barricade schools, now open to all.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had said after the previous attack that his government would lose no time in looking at changing the law following the school massacre earlier this month in the western city of Osaka.

Japanese media have zeroed in on the matter, noting that authorities face the delicate task of balancing legal rights of mental patients with the goal of protecting citizens' safety.
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