27 years after the Kobe child murders, a note from Ayaka Yamashita's father on the anniversary of her death. "There are so many deep, heavy and painful questions swirling around in my head, and I can't seem to find an answer," he says.
Ayaka's father wrote a note to the press, revealing his painful feelings, saying, ''It still hurts. It's painful and lonely, that's all.'' In a series of child murders that occurred in Suma Ward, Kobe City from February to May 1997, five elementary school students were attacked by a 14-year-old boy at the time.