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The Japanese police are stupefyingly useless. They seem to have no idea how to gather evidence and make it into a case.

Japan really has to beef up it's social welfare system big time. Even in Western Australia we have perfectly sane men and women killing their children. In the last 4 months there have been more than 3 cases of this phenomenon. It's even more tragic to know that these people were sane when they killed their own offspring. It's easy to call them witches or deranged psychopaths but thats just a morons way of wimping out on trying to come to grips with what has actually happened and why these people do these things. Japan is no different to the rest of the world except it's social welfare and support sevices for people are woefully inadequate, and as a result when single women are faced with a future that they can't handle things like this happen. Not everyone can be a rock in really tough times. The world is not making it easy for some simple at the moment.

I still say so what if a 38 yr old guy was dating a 16 yr old girl? Whats the big crime? What awful things were going to happen to that 16 yr old girl? As if teenagers can't be little psychos to each other or even more so that the society that they live can't drive them nuts. She couldn't do much worse dating a guy her own age when it comes to taking a risk with what might happen to her in that relationship. Teenagers have proven to be just as capable as any adult of committing heinous crimes. So once again I say so what? Whys everyone treating teenagers like precious little things. You all think they are walking around with their hands over their eyes and ears and ignoring everything that is going on around them? Whats so dangerous about 38 yr old men? My beef is with murder. Murder is a crime too don't forget and the 38 yr old hadn't committed any crime if I am not mistaken. The only illegal thing that happened in this whole mess is that a 42 yr old guy stabbed a 38 yr old guy and killed him.

Murder is wrong! Why was he murdered? He was killed by someone else in an obvious rage. We don't know anything about the victim. There's so little information given about the circumstances that it's impossible for any of us to really say anything remotely sensible.

Good to see the simpletons here leaving intelligent comments about a complicated situation. There is nothing normal about people being jammed together like they are on the trains in Tokyo during the commuter rush hour, so there is nothing normal about the behaviour of men on these trains. There is hardly enough room on a crowded train to scratch your nose let alone thump some guy who is grabbing your tucas. Come on guys, think before you open your mouths and say something typically American.

Thats a bummer. I bet everything sounds a little off key now.

Some of you guys need to seriously chill out and get off your high horses. I say so what if a 38 yr old bum was dating a 16 yr old girl. Who knows what might have happened. She might have got bored of him and dumped him, or it might have turned out to be a brilliant relationship. Japan is not a messed up society because 16 yr old girls date 38 yr old men. 38 is not old anyway! My grandfather was 32 when he met my grandmother and she was 16 and that was in 1902 and they were English and living in India. Should he have been stabbed for that or arrested and charged with something or was English society messed up? Worse things can happen I think.