Osaka school massacre
2001 mass stabbing at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka, Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Osaka school massacre was a school stabbing and mass murder that occurred in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, on 8 June 2001. Mamoru Takuma, a 37-year-old ex-convict with a history of mentally disturbed and anti-social behavior, stabbed eight students to death and seriously wounded fifteen others in a knife attack that lasted several minutes. Takuma was sentenced to death in August 2003, and executed in September 2004.
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Location | Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
Date | 8 June 2001; 22 years ago (2001-06-08) |
Target | Students and staff at Ikeda Elementary School, particularly girls |
Attack type | Mass stabbing, school stabbing, mass murder, pedicide, femicide |
Weapon | Deba knife (blade length about 15.8 cm) |
Deaths | 8[1] |
Injured | 15 |
Perpetrator | Mamoru Takuma |
Motive | Mental illness |
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As of 2023, it is currently the deadliest school attack in Japanese history.