Nothing new about any of this, except perhaps that the internet and bloggers shine more light on the subject. I used to have to fight my way home from dear ol’ YoHi (Yokohama High Scool, AKA Nile C. Kennick H.S.) which was an American scholl for military dependents and diplomatic children. The Japanese have always been inclined toward violence as a culture. They just don’t talk about it much.
If suicide is counted as murder (which it should be) Japan leads the world in murder rate.
Read up on Japanese history. Assassination is almost an art form, if not the second most popular sport. The days of Samurai chopping up peasants to see if their sword was sharp didn’t end because chopping parts off of peasants became socially unfashionable but because fire arms replaced swords, which put the samurai class out of business. Any fool can pull a trigger and often does.
