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School rampage suspect may suffer from personality disorder.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 18-JUN-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
OSAKA, June 12 Kyodo

Mamoru Takuma, the suspect in the primary school rampage that claimed the lives of eight pupils in Osaka Prefecture, is suspected by psychiatrists of having paranoid personality disorder, while he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in a previous incident, the Japanese Association of Psychiatric Hospitals said Tuesday.

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