Yoshitada Konoike, state minister in charge of deregulation zones and disaster management, said Friday the parents of the 12-year-old youth suspected of slaying a 4-year-old boy in Nagasaki should be dragged through the streets and beheaded.
"It is better to have the parents decapitated for punishment after dragging them around town," said Konoike, who doubles as the de facto head of a government panel on rearing juveniles. "The mass media should show the faces of the boy's parents. His teachers and parents should appear" in front of cameras.
The 62-year-old minister said the appearance of the arrested boy's parents and teachers in the media would help remind all people who have children of their responsibility as parents.