Their violent murder deaths are not even close to the state I live in. Guess you were kidding. There are clearly cultural differences and we are clearly a violent society. Have to start right there if anything is to be solved.

Now Japan does have a very large number of suicides comparable to ours.

And in South Korea this incident was all over the newspapers. The citizens were in shock and ashamed. The basic jist I got from the South Korean side was, "Holy Cow, say it aint so, we cant be like them". This was a National humiliation to them. Its like the whole country took it as their fault, its quite amazing. Again, cultural differences. It appears that some Asian socities take responsibility very seriously.