The Osaka school massacre took place at an elementary school in Ikeda in Osaka prefecture in Japan.

On, June 8, 2001, 37-year old Mamoru Takuma armed himself with a kitchen knife with a six-inch blade, entered the Osaka Kyoiku University Ikeda Elementary School at 10.15 a.m. and stabbed children. He killed eight children, including six girls in the second grade, and wounded 18 children and three teachers. Takuma was sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was executed on September 14, 2004.

This case closed up many problems in modern Japan, especially human rights both of criminals and of victims and their family, the social attitude to psychological patients and personality disorder suffered people and the balance between a recent idea "the school easily accessible to its local community" and security of schools.

Stabber

Names are in Western order, with the given name before the surname.

• Mamoru Takuma

Victims, deceased

• Yuki Hongo
• Mayuko Isaka
• Yuka Kiso
• Ayano Moriwaki
• Maki Sakai
• Takahiro Totsuka
• Hana Tsukamoto
• Rena Yamashita

See also

• School massacre

External links

• CNN Article about the stabbing
• Mainichi Shimbun article