At 12:30pm today in Tokyo’s well-known Akihabara area a 25 year old man went on a rampage leaving 14 men and 3 women injured or dead. One police officer is also among the injured.
A 25 year old man first drove into pedestrians with a rental car, then got out and began stabbing people with a survival knife.Technoratiのタグ akihabara, crime in akihabara, crime in japan
Since this story has already been covered in the English language media, I’ll just provide the basic story, but this is yet another tragedy that seems like it could have been avoided. Although no external signs that the death resulted from the detainment, the man had been handcuffed and gagged with a towel. I am…
I love reading the little hints that float around that show the small but effective revolution Google is pulling off in Japan. If you follow the news, you know why Yahoo is bigger than Google in Japan, but I’ve also been writing about how Google has been gaining ground by approaching the Japanese market through…
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CNN reports that American Poet and University of Wyoming Professor Craig Arnold is missing after setting out alone to climb a volcano known as Kuchinoerabujima. The CNN article above mentions that Arnold was on a fellowship in Japan doing research for a book on volcanoes. Not much is mentioned about Kuchinoerabujima (or Kuchinoerabu Island). The…
A Mainichi Shimbun poll came up with a 51 percent disapproval rating. 1043 people over age 20 were polled in a random phone survey this weekend. It’s easy for someone to say that they may not actually be over 51 percent given the standard of deviation for the survey, but really… is that how you…