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A Nation Weeps
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Monday, June. 11, 2001
This week people in Japan woke up in a very different country. Last Friday's
grisly massacre of eight schoolchildren in Osaka has prompted the expected cycle
of reactions and human emotions. First, there was the numbness, the disbelief
that such a barbaric act had occurred. Then the pain and grieving over the
innocents, the children who died at the hands of a madman. As details about the
suspect and reports of his chilling confession emerged, mournfulness turned to
anger. And now, inevitably, the question of why: Why...