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Old 9th Jun 2008, 03:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default SHOCKING NEWS: Akihabara Stabbings

I first read about this incident in my friend's blog! What shocking news!


What : man went on killing rampage
Where : Akihabara, Tokyo Japan (a.k.a Electric Town)
Whom : an ******* named Tomohiro Kato aged 25
When : Yesterday, (Sunday)


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A man armed with a knife has killed seven people and injured 10 others in central Tokyo, Japanese media say.

The incident occurred in the Akihabara district, a busy shopping area known as Electric Town that is popular with young people and tourists.

A suspect, said to be 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, has been arrested.

Police spokesman Jiro Akaogi told reporters: "The suspect said he came to Akihabara to kill people. He said he was tired of life".

The dead include six men, ranging in age from 19 to 74, and a 21-year-old woman, Kyodo News said.

Reports say the suspect drove a rented truck into a crowd in the early afternoon and then began stabbing people at random.

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The moments after the stabbings in Tokyo


James Slaymaker, a British man working in Japan, got to the area shortly after the stabbings. He described the scene to BBC News:

"As I walked down the street, I noticed there were a lot of police cars. I noticed there was a guy literally just lying there with tape on his eyes and blood pouring out of the side of him. I was appalled.

"I could see carnage - bodies everywhere. Some were conscious, some were not, lying by the side of the road and on the road. There were people everywhere, a lot of onlookers."

Another eyewitness told Kyodo News: ''The man jumped on top of a man he had hit with his vehicle and stabbed him with a knife many times. Walking toward Akihabara station, he slashed nearby people at random.''
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A man armed with a knife has killed seven people and injured 10 others in central Tokyo, Japanese media say.

The incident occurred in the Akihabara district, a busy shopping area known as Electric Town that is popular with young people and tourists.

A suspect, said to be 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, has been arrested.

Police spokesman Jiro Akaogi told reporters: "The suspect said he came to Akihabara to kill people. He said he was tired of life".

The dead include six men, ranging in age from 19 to 74, and a 21-year-old woman, Kyodo News said.

Reports say the suspect drove a rented truck into a crowd in the early afternoon and then began stabbing people at random.

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The moments after the stabbings in Tokyo

James Slaymaker, a British man working in Japan, got to the area shortly after the stabbings. He described the scene to BBC News:

"As I walked down the street, I noticed there were a lot of police cars. I noticed there was a guy literally just lying there with tape on his eyes and blood pouring out of the side of him. I was appalled.


When I walked round the corner I saw a woman lying on the floor
Kamran Zaffar, eyewitness

Eyewitness: 'Bodies on road'
In pictures: Tokyo stabbing
Bewilderment follows Tokyo attack

"I could see carnage - bodies everywhere. Some were conscious, some were not, lying by the side of the road and on the road. There were people everywhere, a lot of onlookers."

Another eyewitness told Kyodo News: ''The man jumped on top of a man he had hit with his vehicle and stabbed him with a knife many times. Walking toward Akihabara station, he slashed nearby people at random.''

Crime increase

The Akihabara district specialises in electronic gadgets and video games and is especially popular with people interested in comic books and distinctive fashion.


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It is also home to one of the first shops to sell personal robots and robotics. The area is often crowded on weekends.

Once rare in Japan, there has been an increase in knife crime in recent years.

In January, a 16-year-old school boy armed with two kitchen knives injured several people on a crowded shopping street in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward.

The Akihabara attack occurred on the same date that a man with a history of mental illness went through a primary school in 2001, stabbing children at random.

Eight children died and 15 pupils and teachers were injured in that attack, in a school in Ikeda, in the city of Osaka.

Early reports suggested Mr Kato could have been a gangster, though these were later played down.

Source : BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Seven dead in Tokyo knife attack

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BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Tokyo stabbing
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Old 9th Jun 2008, 06:19 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Thats terrible isn't it ... scary when people snap like that
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It doesn't really surprise me. Japan is a crazy country to work in...
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Scary..No wonder sometimes even anime in japan stop airing a while due to this incidents -.-
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Yeah, I was quite surprised and saddened when I read the article in my newspaper this morning.
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This incident will spoil Akihabara image real bad >.>
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It doesn't really surprise me. Japan is a crazy country to work in...
same over here they just at times
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Atleast they don't have shootings like in North America
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@Dashken..Going to japan eh..Take some nice photos for us and also some gifts
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