Insecure

摘要

In the eyes of many Japanese, two high-profile murders this past summer typify an alarming trend. In July, a 12-year-old boy in Nagasaki lured a four-year-old boy away from an electronics shop, stripped him and beat him, and pushed him to his death from the roof of a seven-storey car park. A video camera captured the two boys together before the murder. Two weeks earlier, a family of four in Fukuoka prefecture was brutally killed and dumped into Hakata Bay. A former exchange student from China confessed to the grisly murders and named two other Chinese exchange students who had helped him. Disturbed juveniles and dangerous foreigners: to many Japanese, these are the twin faces of a frightening increase in crime.