TOKYO Kailer Yamamoto Oilers Jersey , June 12 (Xinhua) -- Juvenile crimes and school bullying are on the rise in Japan as graphically described in a newly- released and highly-controversial autobiography by a former serial child killer, which supports latest findings that such delinquent behavior by Japan's youth is far more often than previously thought.
Although there were calls for the book's withdrawal from the victims' families, the publisher insisted that "it deemed the killer's account all the more important to place in the public record amid heightened concerns over the severity of juvenile crimes of late," according to the Japan Times on Thursday.
The killer, Seito Sakakibara, whose real name has not been revealed Mark Letestu Oilers Jersey , said in the book released Wednesday, "let me confess something: I thought the sight was a beauty... I felt like I was born just to see the ethereal beauty of what was in front of my eyes. I thought I could die."
The killer, 32, decapitated his 11-year-old victim when he was 14 in 1997 in Kobe city in western Japan. He then carried the head "into the bathroom at his home, where he locked himself in and committed a deed 'far more heinous that murder'," said the newspaper Cam Talbot Oilers Jersey , adding that Sakakibara then put the head on a pole before the gate of a junior high school there.
"When I advanced to junior high school, I had already become bored of killing cats, and gradually found myself fantasizing about how it would feel to murder human beings like me," the English-language newspaper quoted the book as saying.
In the book, the author also spoke of the guilt that plagues him today and offers an apology to the relatives of his victims, two of whom he murdered and three he injured.
However Milan Lucic Oilers Jersey , one victim's father said "it is clear that he is not sorry for what he did," referring to the "pleasure" of such bloody crimes stated in the book.
The horrific case is not the only vicious crime here. According to a government white paper released on June 5, almost 90 percent of Japanese school children suffered from bullying on campus in a six-year period from fiscal 2007 to 2013, with several cases resulting in deaths and suicides.
The white paper said only about 13 percent of students in this period were not bullied and about 12.7 percent said they never bullied others during the period.
Separate data on a six-month period from fiscal 2004 to 2012 showed that about half of the students surveyed said they were bullied, either ostracized, ignored or gossiped about Darnell Nurse Oilers Jersey , according to Japan's Kyodo News. The survey covered 800 pupils from the fourth to sixth grade at primary schools.
Local media reports said Thursday that a body found Tuesday by Aichi Prefectural Police was confirmed to be a 15-year-old high school boy who was beaten by a group of teens earlier and forced to swim across a river.
The body was found about 350 meters downriver from the spot where he went missing, said the Japan Times, adding that no signs of serious injury were found on the body and an autopsy will be conducted to examine the cause of death.
The report said local police will continue to investigate three teenage boys who were arrested on suspicion of attacking the victim, adding they may face charges of causing injury resulting in death.
The first Afro-Asian Miss Universe Japan Ariana Miyamoto recalled her bitter days when she also suffered at the hands of bullies. "There was a lot of bullying when I was at school, particularly when I was an elementary school student. They used to throw garbage in my face but I had no idea why," the 22-year-old told Xinhua in an exclusive interview recently.
"The bullying was an ongoing thing and it wasn't just by one individual Patrick Maroon Oilers Jersey , it was by groups too picking on me because I looked different from them with my darker skin. The level of attacks got quite serious, but perhaps the emotional pain was more agonizing," recalled the Miss Universe Japan contest winner.
"There was this one time when a whole class of kids refused to get in the swimming pool with me, because my skin was in a different color," she detailed, adding that in those days she had no one to turn to Ryan Strome Oilers Jersey , to express her pain, her anxiety, her confusion about looking and feeling different.
"It all got too much in those days and I'd been keeping all these mixed emotions inside and didn't want to talk to anyone about them as they were so personal and sensitive and as a child, confusion and embarrassment together is a fairly devastating cocktail of feelings," Miyamoto said, highlighting the sense of hopelessness and alienation apparently felt by the vast majority of today's youngsters in Japan Adam Larsson Oilers Jersey , as the latest statistics reveal.
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