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SEITO SAKAKIBARA

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 24, 2016
Father of Kobe beheading victim wants criminals banned from publishing books about their deeds
The father of an 11-year-old boy murdered by a juvenile killer in Kobe in 1997 has issued a statement calling for rules banning perpetrators of serious crimes from publishing books related to their heinous activities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 5, 2015
Hunter and hunted: Where are they now?
The mutilations are frightful — dog, cat, rabbit and pigeon corpses missing heads, tails, limbs, ears. Weekly Playboy magazine reports nearly 40 sightings in the past four months in the Kanto region alone. Who's out there doing these things? With what thoughts in mind?
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 14, 2015
Shukan Post prints real name, photo of 1997 Kobe child killer
In a move certain to stir up controversy over the protection of the rights of minors, a weekly magazine publishes the real name and youth photo of a man who, as a teen in 1997, killed two children in Kobe.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 10, 2015
Child serial killer Sakakibara believed to have launched vanity website
A notorious serial killer whose murders of two children in 1997 revolted the nation has apparently set up a website on which he says he will post updates about his life.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2015
Family of victim of Kobe child-killer calls for ban on criminals' memoirs
Enraged by the publication last month of a memoir by an infamous child serial killer from Kobe, the father of one of the victims petitioned the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday for a ban on criminals talking about their crimes, including in print and movies, without the permission of those they harmed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 4, 2015
Will hot-selling book bring Kobe killer in from the cold?
'June 28, 1997. I ceased being me. It was the day I was expelled forever from the world of sunshine. Up to then, I had nonchalantly spent my days unaltruistically, each passing day framed by the next as in a film, until the day when, suddenly, I began to be stigmatized as an enigmatic being.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 1, 2015
Child serial killer's memoir a hot seller, hot potato
A memoir detailing the macabre accounts of a 1997 juvenile serial killer is stirring controversy, but not only for its stomach-turning subject matter.

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