The So-called Chain Reaction

In the last 30 days, two 1st graders and one 6th grader were murdered in Japan. The first two girls were killed by strangers while walking back home, and the third one by her former tutor. Many people here are asking, "What is going on in Japan?!" But on TV there hasn't been much discussion on reasons for this chain of murders. I want to analyze them sociologically, but there are too many "variables" and their interactions to consider, so I only have speculations and conjectures rather than rigorous analysis.

It's challenging (and almost impossible) to analyze the social world in its totality, but it's very interesting... and we must grapple with it.