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Kobe child murders
Tomogaoka Junior High School, where one murder was committed.
Location
Suma, Kobe, Japan
Date
March 16, 1997 (1997-03-16) (murder of Yamashita) May 24, 1997 (murder of Hase)
Shinichiro Azuma (東 慎一郎) (a.k.a. "Boy A" or Seito Sakakibara)
Motive
Thrill
Convictions
Murder (2 counts)
Sentence
6+2⁄3 years in juvenile detention
The Kobe child murders (Japanese: 神戸連続児童殺傷事件, Hepburn: Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) occurred in Suma, Kobe, Japan, on March 16 and May 27, 1997. Two victims, Ayaka Yamashita (山下 彩花, Yamashita Ayaka), aged 10, and Jun Hase (土師 淳, Hase Jun), aged 11, were murdered by a 14-year-old boy reportedly named Shinichiro Azuma (東 慎一郎, Azuma Shin'ichirō),[1][2] under the alias Seito Sakakibara (酒鬼薔薇 聖斗, Sakakibara Seito).
The perpetrator was arrested on June28, 1997, in connection with the Hase murder, and later confessed to both murders. As a juvenile offender, he was prosecuted and convicted as "BoyA". His real name has not been officially released to the press because Japanese law prohibits publishing the identification, but in some weekly magazines his real name has been reported as Shinichiro Azuma. Beginning in 2004, Azuma was released on provisional basis, with full release announced to follow on January1, 2005. The murders and subsequent release of the perpetrator gained widespread attention from Japanese media and politicians.
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