19-year-old girl sent to reformatory for stabbing classmate

Yikes!

The girl reportedly suffers chronic emotional stress from a feeling of failure to become well-adjusted to society.

Unless we address the root cause of the problem, more cases like this will continue to pop up in the future. I wish schools would allot programs for kids, while jobs can hold similar ideas for their workers. It doesn't have to be managed by professional psychiatrists, even just someone who's willing to lend an ear and a shoulder for support would be enough, think of it like a group therapy session. It might seem like a first world problem, but it'll still get to you.

How about she get sent to prison where she belongs?

Wasn't aware Japan had reprogramming centers, hmmm..

She should be locked up for good. It’s not as if she’s going to get better. In another few years we’ll read about her killing somebody or, given her nature, her own kid(s).

Regarding the girl’s psychological state, the judge ruled that “correctional education is necessary to prevent a reoccurrence of delinquent behavior.”

I'd love to see a documentary on what's going on in those correctional center for kids.

"Usual brainwashing didn't work at school? Don't worry we have our methods"

I will go out on a limb and suggest that her feelings of not being able to adjust to society are directly caused by society and the law treating her as a child even if she is ready to live as an adult and has been for a while. At least society is being consistent in treating her as a child even when stabs someone.

If that is true, I have no doubt she will always be haunted by her teenage years but will do much better when she is given actual rights and freedom, assuming this episode does not follow her. I don't think she will be a danger after 20. But I say this without nearly enough detail to work with.

She was probably coddled and didn't get the proper discipline that was needed when she was a child. No adjustment is necessary for prison. They'll do it for her.

First time I hear the word reformatory mentioned in Japan.

The girl reportedly suffers chronic emotional stress from a feeling of failure to become well-adjusted to society.

But Japan will never change. She is just a sad byproduct, the same as the poor victim.

Private high schools are hives for students with emotional and mental disorders who cannot cut it in public schools.

If you take a knife into a school knowing your going to use it to hurt, maim, kill some one, that it bordering on, or is attempted murder. although the attacker is going to get "help" what about the other poor girl who was attacked? will she get some sort of support and professional help to recover from this night mare?

The girl reportedly suffers chronic emotional stress from a feeling of failure to become well-adjusted to society.

I’d say its more than just a feeling of failure. Stabbing someone is pretty much the definition of not being well-adjusted to society.

Why did she stab this particular girl? Had she and her friends been tormenting her? Did the other girl attack her and get more than she bargained for? Did the other girl have the knife first but is now seen as the victim?

As well as the speculation above, there are so many scenarios we can invent on a solid foundation of lack of information.

the defendant “resented the victim after she revealed she was dating a man.”

"juvenile reformatory", "juvenile reformatory"

That sounds more like North Korea to me....Scary! Almost worse than the stabbing itself...