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22nd anniversary of Osaka knife rampage

Photo taken on June 8, 2023, shows Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, where eight pupils were killed in a knife attack that occurred 22 years earlier on the same day.

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22nd anniversary of Osaka knife rampage

Students carry flowers on their way to Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on June 8, 2023, the 22nd anniversary of a knife attack in which eight pupils were killed.

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22nd anniversary of Osaka knife rampage

Students carry flowers on their way to Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on June 8, 2023, the 22nd anniversary of a knife attack in which eight pupils were killed.

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After fatal accident

KAMEOKA, Japan - Police officers, teachers and parents escort pupils heading to Ansho Elementary School in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 24, 2012. A pupil and a woman were killed and eight others were injured the previous day as a car driven by a minor without a driving license ploughed into a group of mostly children as they were walking to the school.

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Osaka school remembers stabbing rampage

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils offer flowers at the monument for the victims of a 2001 stabbing rampage in Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on June 8, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the incident that killed eight children at the school.

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Osaka school remembers stabbing rampage

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, head to school on June 8, 2011, the 10th anniversary of a stabbing rampage by an intruder that killed eight children at the school.

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Ikeda Elementary School designated 'int'l safe school'

IKEDA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School principal Daisuke Fujita (L) holds up an ''International Safe Schools'' certificate with Max Vosskuhler, chair of the ISS committee affiliated with the World Health Organization, in the city of Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture, on March 5, 2010. The school, where eight pupils were murdered by an intruder in 2001, became the first school in Japan to be designated as a ''safe school'' by the WHO for its efforts to build safety.

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Osaka school marks 5th anniversary of fatal stabbing rampage

IKEDA, Japan - People lay flowers at Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture on June 8 as the school marked the fifth anniversary of an incident in which a knife-wielding intruder killed eight pupils and injured 13 others and two teachers.

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(2)Takuma sentenced to death for school mass murder

OSAKA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School pupils go to school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 28, shortly before Mamoru Takuma was sentenced to death for murdering eight children and injuring 13 others and two teachers in a stabbing rampage at the school in June 2001.

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Ikeda Elementary School reopens 80 days after attack

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture gather in the schoolyard in front of a temporary schoolhouse on Aug. 27 for a ceremony to start the second term of the year. The school reopened 80 days after a knife-wielding man slaughtered eight children there on June 8.

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Construction of temporary school begins in Ikeda

OSAKA, Japan - Work begins July 12 on construction of a temporary school building for pupils at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, where a man stabbed eight children dead on June 8. A prefabricated structure will be built about 500 meters from the present school building, which will be demolished and replaced by a new school.

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U.S. students send letters, stone to Ikeda school students

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo shows Steve Heermann, a teacher at Helen Estock Elementary in Tustin, California, and some of his students who sent letters and a ''compassion stone'' to pupils and teachers at the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture to encourage them after hearing about the June 8 attack in which eight pupils were stabbed to death and 13 others and two teachers injured.

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Ikeda students go on therapy picnic

OSAKA, Japan - Students from Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the site of a fatal stabbing rampage last month, stroll in a park in Suita July 4 in their first outing since classes were canceled following the tragedy. The outing was organized by the school as part of efforts to help pupils cope with the trauma of the attack, in which eight pupils were killed and 13 injured.

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Head of Ikeda elementary school's parent univ. voices anger

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Nakatani, head of the parent university of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, speaks at the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Diet in Tokyo on June 22. He voiced regret and anger at the June 8 killings in which eight pupils were fatally stabbed at the school.

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Pupils hang paper cranes at Ikeda school

IKEDA, Japan - Two girls try to hang a chain of paper-folded cranes June 14 on the gate to Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the scene of a stabbing rampage that claimed the lives of eight schoolchildren on June 8.

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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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Teacher-counselor pair visits Ikeda students

IKEDA, Japan - A teacher-counselor team June 11 begins visiting the homes of pupils involved in the June 8 massacre at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to assess their emotional and psychological states. The rampage by a knife-wielding man left eight schoolchildren dead and 15 others, including two teachers, injured.

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8 students killed, 21 injured by knife-wielding man

OSAKA, Japan - Ambulances at Ikeda Elementary School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, rescue 26 pupils and 3 teachers attacked by a man who barged into school classrooms with a kitchen knife on June 8. So far eight pupils are confirmed dead and 21 others injured.

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Mori performs traditional Okinawan dance in Nago

NAGO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) performs Okinawa's traditional ''Kachaashii'' dance July 23 with Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto (far L) and school pupils at a welcoming event hosted by the city of Nago in a park just after the Group of Eight summit ended around noon the same day.

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Taiko drums pound out Olympic

2000 taiko drummers celebrate the first full day of Olympic competition on Feb. 8 with a colorful performance in Central Nagano. The drummers ranged from eight-year-old elementary school pupils to elderly women and a handful of foreigners.

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15th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka primary school

A ceremony is held June 8, 2016, to mark the 15th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,300 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the ceremony to commemorate the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pupils wear masks at Seoul elementary school

Pupils wear masks while attending a class at an elementary school in Seoul on June 9, 2015. South Korean health authorities announced the same day that a 68-year-old woman became the seventh fatality linked to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus and reported eight new cases, raising the total number of infections to 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Koizumi arrives at Savannah to attend G-8 summit

SAVANNAH, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from R) is welcomed by pupils on arriving at Savannah, Georgia, June 8 to attend the summit of the Group of Eight nations on Sea Island. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Osaka school marks 5th anniversary of fatal stabbing rampage

IKEDA, Japan - People lay flowers at Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture on June 8 as the school marked the fifth anniversary of an incident in which a knife-wielding intruder killed eight pupils and injured 13 others and two teachers. (Kyodo)

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Mori performs traditional Okinawan dance in Nago

NAGO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) performs Okinawa's traditional ''Kachaashii'' dance July 23 with Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto (far L) and school pupils at a welcoming event hosted by the city of Nago in a park just after the Group of Eight summit ended around noon the same day.

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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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Osaka school remembers stabbing rampage

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, head to school on June 8, 2011, the 10th anniversary of a stabbing rampage by an intruder that killed eight children at the school. (Kyodo)

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Osaka school remembers stabbing rampage

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils offer flowers at the monument for the victims of a 2001 stabbing rampage in Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on June 8, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the incident that killed eight children at the school. (Kyodo)

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After fatal accident

KAMEOKA, Japan - Police officers, teachers and parents escort pupils heading to Ansho Elementary School in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 24, 2012. A pupil and a woman were killed and eight others were injured the previous day as a car driven by a minor without a driving license ploughed into a group of mostly children as they were walking to the school. (Kyodo)

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Ikeda Elementary School designated 'int'l safe school'

IKEDA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School principal Daisuke Fujita (L) holds up an ''International Safe Schools'' certificate with Max Vosskuhler, chair of the ISS committee affiliated with the World Health Organization, in the city of Ikeda in Osaka Prefecture, on March 5, 2010. The school, where eight pupils were murdered by an intruder in 2001, became the first school in Japan to be designated as a ''safe school'' by the WHO for its efforts to build safety. (Kyodo)

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

People attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

People attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

People attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

People attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

Pupils attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

A pupil attends a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

Pupils attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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18th anniversary of stabbing rampage at Osaka elementary school

Pupils attend a ceremony on June 8, 2019, to mark the 18th anniversary of a stabbing rampage at Ikeda Elementary School in the western Japan city of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. About 1,400 people including pupils, teachers and bereaved families attended the event in memory of the eight children stabbed to death by a knife-wielding intruder. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Takuma sentenced to death for school mass murder

OSAKA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School pupils go to school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 28, shortly before Mamoru Takuma was sentenced to death for murdering eight children and injuring 13 others and two teachers in a stabbing rampage at the school in June 2001. (Kyodo)

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Ikeda Elementary School reopens 80 days after attack

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture gather in the schoolyard in front of a temporary schoolhouse on Aug. 27 for a ceremony to start the second term of the year. The school reopened 80 days after a knife-wielding man slaughtered eight children there on June 8.

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Construction of temporary school begins in Ikeda

OSAKA, Japan - Work begins July 12 on construction of a temporary school building for pupils at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, where a man stabbed eight children dead on June 8. A prefabricated structure will be built about 500 meters from the present school building, which will be demolished and replaced by a new school.

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Ikeda students go on therapy picnic

OSAKA, Japan - Students from Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the site of a fatal stabbing rampage last month, stroll in a park in Suita July 4 in their first outing since classes were canceled following the tragedy. The outing was organized by the school as part of efforts to help pupils cope with the trauma of the attack, in which eight pupils were killed and 13 injured.

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Head of Ikeda elementary school's parent univ. voices anger

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Nakatani, head of the parent university of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, speaks at the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Diet in Tokyo on June 22. He voiced regret and anger at the June 8 killings in which eight pupils were fatally stabbed at the school.

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Teacher-counselor pair visits Ikeda students

IKEDA, Japan - A teacher-counselor team June 11 begins visiting the homes of pupils involved in the June 8 massacre at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to assess their emotional and psychological states. The rampage by a knife-wielding man left eight schoolchildren dead and 15 others, including two teachers, injured.

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Last funeral for stabbing victim held

OSAKA, Japan - Female mourners wipe their tears at the funeral in Fuita, Osaka Prefecture, on June 11 for Yuka Kiso, a 7-year-old girl who was one of eight children killed by a knife-wielding man in June 8 stabbing spree at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School. Funerals for the seven other pupils were held on June 10. The funeral for Kiso was postponed by one day because of her parents' wish to stay with their daughter as long as possible.

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Children evacuated after deadly stabbing attack at school

OSAKA, Japan - Children are evacuated to the grounds of their school shortly after a man wielding a knife burst into several classrooms and stabbed pupils and teachers on June 8. At least eight children were killed and 21 other people were injured in the attack at Ikeda Elementary School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture.

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8 students killed, 21 injured by knife-wielding man

OSAKA, Japan - Ambulances at Ikeda Elementary School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, rescue 26 pupils and 3 teachers attacked by a man who barged into school classrooms with a kitchen knife on June 8. So far eight pupils are confirmed dead and 21 others injured.