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May 6, 2000
TOKYO, MAY 5 (AP) - One out of three Japanese high school male students feel to an impulse to beat up their parents, according to a government survey published Friday.
Some 25 percent of female students in the survey said they had at times felt an impulse to hit their parents, according to the Management and Coordination Agency's survey on juvenile attitudes toward violence, the first of its kind.
The survey, conducted between September and November, covered 2,089 junior and high school students, including 1,028 female students, at five prefectures (states) - Tokyo, Miyazaki, Tottori, Hyogo and Akita.
No margin of error was available.
It showed 29.9 percent of male junior high students felt on the verge of assaulting their parents.
Eight percent of male junior and high school students said they had actually beat up their parents in the past.
Forty-one percent of male students said they thought a lack of discipline by adults has allowed violence to spread in society.
Although still low compared to the United States, the juvenile crime rate has climbed recently, with murders by youngsters up by 56 percent in a year.
Early Thursday, a 17-year-old youth, a school dropout, was arrested after hijacking a bus in southwestern Japan. During the ordeal, he killed one passenger with his long knife and slashed several others.
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