Koizumi eyes law revision following Ikeda massacre

Koizumi eyes law revision following Ikeda massacre

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says June 9 his government will begin studying possible law revisions regarding crimes by mentally ill people following Friday's massacre of eight children by a man with a history of psychiatric illness. ''There are issues that must be dealt with both from the point of view of medical treatment and the Penal Code,'' the premier told an NHK TV program that is to be aired on the morning of June 10.

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