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Three years ago, the serene Tokyo bedroom community of Hanna was shaken by a series of grisly crimes. The New York Times described as so un-Japanese . But the perpetrator, who had sent bone and teeth fragments to the grieving families, couldn't have been more Japanese. By day he was a sullen apprentice at a local print shop. By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalized from avidly watching his collection of more than 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga, or Japanese comic books.