人種差別の理解可能性と「混血（児）」カテゴリー――「混血少年連続殺人事件」を事例に――

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Through a membership categorization analysis of the coverage of a “Mixed-race Juvenile Serial Murder Case,” how the suspect of the case could be positioned as a victim is analyzed in this paper. With the suspect’s confession of his experience of racial discrimination as the motive for the crime, the press identified the suspect as a victim of Japanese racism rather than a blameworthy criminal. The press focus on Japanese racism, in turn, made it possible to emphasize the “perpetrator-victim” relation between a “Japanese” “adult” and a “mixed-race” “juvenile.” On the other hand, those who mentioned the incident from the point of view of “mixed-race” blamed the suspect by associating the crime with his own personality.