Before the start of the Kyoto Animation arson murder trial, the Kyoto Shimbun published a comment by a professor of the Department of Psychology about the relevance to past incidents.
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Professor Nakayama of the Faculty of Psychology said that after the KyoAni incident, an idol group event in Tokushima City in 2021 and a clinic in Kitashinchi, Osaka City, in XNUMX after the Kyoto Animation Incident, followed by indiscriminate cases of arson. It is analyzed as a trick aimed at mass murder.