The perpetrator, Tomohiro Kato, said that he just wanted to kill people, he didn’t care who.
The Akihabara area is famous for computers, electronics, mangas, anime figures, maid cafes, and “otaku” culture in general.
For plenty of photos of the happenings, feel free to visit this site (a news blog on livedoor) for lots of photos of the scene.
This is an update for the post: Sasebo Shooter was NOT a Foreigner The guy (a 37 year old Japanese man) had a gun permit because he was a competitive skeet shooter. That explains the gun. There are also a lot of reports from people in the neighborhood that say he liked to walk around…
Just a few brief notes about recent news stories that have come out. More message board posts from Kato have been found recently describing such things as The type of girl he likes His frustrations at not having a girlfriend By now everyone has seen translations of some of his message board posts describing each…
First off, what I refer to as pop-Japanology is the phenomenon of people all over the world, including scholars and otherwise reputable journalists to feel comfortable making generalizations about Japan without any fact checking. CNN has featured an article about the Sumo Bullying/Murder case that happened back in June. Arrests were made around February 8th…
Another pop execution in Japan where the usual modus operandi is to execute first and notify the media later. The next of kin for the executed is also notified AFTER the execution and asked to come and take care of the remains and any funeral rites involved. Japan executed 15 in 2008, and has come…
A British man living in Spain, visiting Japan with a group of eight people was arrested for swimming around in the moat at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, climbing some rock walls, as well as threatening and evading police. He was completely naked at the time. You can watch the video below… you have to…
In a previous post I wrote about six Kyoto University of Education students who raped a girl at a party in February. The university never reported the incident to police until June. There were some pretty outrageous moral violations by the school, such things as refusing to report the incident to authorities, and the fact…