Bjorn Heiberg, a knife shop owner, was born in Canada and raised in Denmark. He tells us about putting down roots in Osaka and encountering the knives that proved to be his destiny. Bjorn describes ...

IKEDA, Osaka Prefecture—Norihiro Hongo has sometimes ... stormed the school and stabbed and slashed children with two kitchen knives. Seven female second-graders and one first-grade boy were ...