1.   Twenty of the victims had been shot to death, one child was fatally stabbed.

2.   Police were searching for the man, who fled after stabbing the children, NHK said.

3.   A man stabbed four children at an elementary school Monday before he was subdued by police.

4.   All the children were stabbed in the neck with what police described as a filet knife.

5.   An unemployed man broke into a house Wednesday afternoon and stabbed three children, two fatally, on the northern island of Hokkaido, police said.

6.   An unidentified man broke into a house Wednesday afternoon and stabbed three children, two fatally, on the northern island of Hokkaido, police said.

7.   An unidentified man stabbed three children, one fatally, at a residence on the northern island of Hokkaido, national broadcaster NHK television reported Wednesday.

8.   In June, eight children were stabbed to death after a man attacked classrooms in an elementary school in the western Japan city of Ikeda, near Osaka.

9.   Initial reports were that the children were stabbed in the neck.

10.   Man stabs three children in northwestern Japan, two die.