While young people face many obstacles, there are programmes working to uplift them, it is just a matter of knowing where to look.
The idea of criminalising anti-competitive behaviour and hitting the colluders is an attractive one.
The Akihabara district attracts its share of troubled types — typically, socially inept young men who view the world through the prism of manga comics and computer games. But while thousands go there to find acceptance and a kind of camaraderie, Tomohiro Kato arrived there on Sunday for very different reasons.
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