The graduation album of a public high school in Nara Prefecture contains a photograph of a cheer-squad member supporting his team at the National Invitational High School Baseball Tournament held at Koshien Stadium in the spring of 1998. The stand was almost full that day as the cheering teenager waved his arm, a dignified expression on his face.
Twenty-four years after that photo was taken, the boy in the picture -- Tetsuya Yamagami -- stunned Japan when he fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. What happened during Yamagami's life to turn the young cheer-squad member into a killer?
