Quote Originally Posted by drone
He's a South Korean immigrant, not Japanese.
I was using Japanese society as an example of how the roots may go back further than any individual or family. If the investigations of those various incidents hadn't looked at the family, and at the wider society as a whole, would people be as aware of the depth of the problem?

This guy's family should be looking at themselves and asking how he came to be like this, and the deceased's families deserve to know the answers. The press in its various guises can serve as both carrot and stick with which to find answers to the question "Why?". If the family isn't inclined to go public with the results, IMHO an incident of this kind and severity gives the press the right to look for the answers themselves. And if this is an intrusion into their family's privacy - tough cheese.