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☆ incident in Tokyo

Monday, June 9, 2008, 2:36 PM.

when i read alice nine's diary translation today, there was only a post written by Nao-san, which he said that he was sad as there were a lot of incidents happening lately...
and below the translation, there is a link to the event that Nao-san is talking about...

here's the article.


By SHINO YUASA, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jun 8, 6:15 PM ET

TOKYO - A man plowed into shoppers with a truck Sunday and then stabbed 17 people within minutes, killing at least seven of them in a grisly attack that shocked a country known for its low crime rate.

The lunchtime violence in the Akihabara district, a popular electronics and video game area, sent thousands of people fleeing.

The assault, which occurred on the seventh anniversary of a mass stabbing at a Japanese elementary school, was the latest in a series of knife attacks that have stoked fears of rising violent crime in Japan.

A 25-year-old man, Tomohiro Kato, was arrested with blood on his face.

"The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people," said Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

"He said he was tired of life. He said he was sick of everything," Akaogi said.

The violence began when the man crashed a rented, two-ton truck into pedestrians. He then jumped out and began stabbing the people he had knocked down with the truck before turning on horrified onlookers, police said.

Police confirmed seven deaths — six men and one woman — but they could not say whether the victims had died of injuries from the truck or were stabbed to death.

Reports said the attacker grunted and roared as he slashed and stabbed at Sunday shoppers crowding a street lined with huge stores packed with the latest in computers, electronics, videos and games.

"He was screaming as he was stabbing people at random," a male witness told national broadcaster NHK.

Another witness told NHK that the suspect dropped his knife after police threatened to shoot him. Amateur video filmed by mobile phone showed policemen overpowering the bespectacled, bloodied suspect.

The attack paralyzed the district known as Electric Town and sent thousands of Sunday shoppers into a panic. Amateur video taken five minutes after the rampage showed shoppers helping victims and a man screaming, "Ambulance, Ambulance!"

At least 17 ambulances rushed to the scene, and rescue workers feverishly tended to victims in the blood-pooled street.

As night fell on Akihabara, several pedestrians stopped by and prayed at the crime scene. A bouquet of flowers, bottles of green tea and incense sticks were placed at the site.

Japan boasts a low crime rate compared to other industrialized nations and Tokyo, with a population of 12.7 million, is considered relatively safe. But stabbings, once rare in the country, have become more frequent in recent years.

In March, one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a slashing spree with two knives outside a shopping mall in eastern Japan. In January, a 16-year-old boy attacked five people in a shopping area, injuring two of them.

A spate of knife attacks also have occurred in schools, the worst on June 8, 2001 when a man with a history of mental illness burst into elementary school near Osaka killing eight children. He was executed in 2004.


gosh, he said that "was tired of life and sick of everything," so he decided to kill people?
if that is so, wouldnt the people in the world wide disappeared since how many years ago? it's maddening to kill someone cos you are 'tired of your life', it is not that everyone is as depressed as you do and wants to die. the victim may be a bridegroom-to-be on the following day(s)/week(s), or someone whom finally got promoted in his company, someone whom finally found a job to feed the family, or lots more, lots more of people who looked forward to tomorrow, and becaused of one's depression and selfishness the other's life is ended cogently. how would the victim's family or the onlookers feel?

but, we didnt know what kind of depression did the killer faced, he might be just jailed or executed, but what about his family? they may not be able to survive if the killer is the breadwinner of the family, and how are they gonna face their relatives and neighbours if they gossip behind their back... especially the poor children(if there is any).

and, it sounded like kurosaki's father in Kurosagi, who killed his family and himself when he got cheated and lose a large sum of money and his business... but for Kurosaki, things turned out well in the end.

just... treasure whatever you have now, unlike me.


and i think...
my dinner would be only sushi and miso soup -_-.

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