Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009
Escape in Japan
By Ian Buruma
Tokyo Sonata
a film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Murders are relatively rare in Japan, but when they occur they tend to be frenzied: a young man—'sick and tired of life'—plowing into a crowd of Tokyo shoppers in a hired two-ton truck, before knifing seven people to death; an eleven-year-old schoolgirl slashing her twelve-year-old friend after a row over a message posted on the Internet.
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