Ikeda schoolyard quiet in wake of massacre

Ikeda schoolyard quiet in wake of massacre

IKEDA, Japan - The schoolyard of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture is empty on June 13, after a man stabbed to death eight pupils and injured 15 others at the school June 8 in the worst mass killing in Japan in years.

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