Hanako Kuribayashi was known as being a thoughtful and good-natured girl and Satoshi Oyama was recognized as a specialist in Burmese and highly qualified Foreign Ministry official. The two were killed in a stabbing attack near Tokyo on Tuesday morning.The two fell victim when a man wielding knives stabbed 16 pupils and two parents waiting with them for their school bus in Kawasaki near Tokyo. The suspect, identified by police as 51-year-old Kawasaki resident Ryuichi Iwasaki, died in the hospital as a result of a self-inflicted stab wound to the neck.Eleven-year-old Hanako was a sixth-grader…READ FULL ARTICLE
