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CKohalyk
11th July 2003, 06:14
Teen killer's parents should be beheaded, says minister
from Japan Today (http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=266066)

TOKYO — Yoshitada Konoike, state minister in charge of deregulation zones and disaster management, said Friday the parents of a 12-year-old boy suspected of slaying a 4-year-old boy in Nagasaki should be dragged around town and beheaded.

"It is better to have the parents decapitated for punishment after dragging them around the town," Konoike told a news conference. He doubles as de facto head of a government panel on the upbringing of juveniles.

"The mass media should show the faces of the boy's parents. Teachers and the parents should appear" in front of media cameras, Konoike said.

The minister said the appearance of the arrested boy's parents and teachers on the media would help remind all people in Japan who have children of their responsibility as parents.

Konoike, 62, is a House of Councillors lawmaker from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

He has been assigned to draft this summer an outline of a comprehensive policy on how the government can help parents, teachers, welfare workers and police officers in bringing up the youth in their communities.

"But I won't do that," Konoike said. Before making a list of abstract slogans in the envisioned outline, the government "should launch a panel exclusively on handling prevention of juvenile crimes," he said.

According to the police, the arrested junior high school student pushed the younger boy to his death from the roof of a multistory car park in Nagasaki on July 1. (Kyodo News)

Striking Hand
11th July 2003, 06:17
I guess the same way Koizumi got voted in.:(