Japan: Man Arrested in Damage to Anne Frank Books

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/japan-man-arrested-in-damage-to-anne-frank-books.html

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The police on Friday arrested a man who said he tore pages out of books related to Anne Frank at a Tokyo library. More than 300 books related to Frank, including “The Diary of a Young Girl,” which has become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust, have been vandalized recently at Tokyo libraries. The police said the man, 36, sneaked into a library on Feb. 5 and ripped pages from 23 books. The police said that the suspect admitted to ripping the pages out of the books, but that his motive was unclear.