Young people today are taught to expect things but are not taught their value or how to secure them, and adults are at fault for overprotecting and spoiling their offspring, according to psychiatrist Shizuo Machizawa.
This, he said, is made even worse by a society that values results over process.
Machizawa, upon whose recommendation the mother of the 17-year-old bus hijacker in Saga Prefecture had the boy institutionalized prior to his fatal attack earlier this month, said in a recent interview that he thinks the boy reflects the pathology of Japanese society.