Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Japanese Terrorism / Violence Incidents

Japanese Terrorism / Violence Incidents


Two Japanese Stabbed, One Killed in Turkey
September 9, 2013 Location: near the town of Goreme in Turkey's central Cappadocia region, which draws tourists to its volcanic rock formations and its centuries-old underground cities. Two Japanese tourists who were away from the main group were attacked by assailants with knives who stabbed them, killing Mai Kurihara, 22 and sending the other to the hospital. The students from Japan's Niigata University were found by other students. No motive was given, but some reports speculated that Japan had just won hosting the Olympics over Turkey.

http://japandailypress.com/10-chinese-arrested-after-3-japanese-stabbed-in-drunken-brawl-1727137/

10 Chinese arrested after 3 Japanese stabbed in drunken brawl

 Apr 17, 2013   three people were stabbed in a drunken brawl ..between more than ten Chinese nationals and group of Japanese. ...argument at around 10:00 PM on Sunday night escalated into a full-on fight, and ended with police arresting the Chinese group and the three stabbing victims going to the hospital... one Chinese suspect used a bladed to injure three others. .. Two of the Japanese were said to be seriously wounded by the weapon, while the third, a woman, was only slightly injured. ... but with the ongoing territorial dispute between China and Japan (motive?)



February 2013

  • Two Japanese die in Guam stabbing spree | The Japan Times

    www.japantimes.co.jp/news/.../two-japanese-die-in-guam-stabbing-spree


    Two Japanese die in Guam stabbing spree

    11 tourists hurt in man's vehicular, knife assault

    KYODO, AP




    GUAM – Two Japanese women were slain and 11 of their compatriots were wounded Tuesday night in a stabbing spree on Guam perpetrated by a man after he crashed his car into a convenience store in a popular tourist resort.
    The dead were identified as Rie Sugiyama, 28, and Kazuko Uehara, 81, the Foreign Ministry said in Tokyo. They were among the 15 who were taken to a hospital after the rampage. Some were hit by the car and others were stabbed. Two of them were later found unhurt, leaving the number of the injured 11.
    The wounded included an 8-month-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a man now in critical condition, according to local police and hospital officials.
    Stabbed 5 People at Railway Station, Japanese Men Arrested
    » Saturday, 20 October 2012


    Tokyo, Hakata station, Japan. Unknown motive man stabbed five men at random. Police heard him cry out ""I want to stab people" 

    6 men stabbed at Japan's train station, suspect held - World …

    english.sina.com/world/2012/1019/518311.html
     assailant, Kimitaka Nakano, 26 is from the city using a kitchen knife with a 17-centimeter blade and violating the Swords and Firearms Control Law. Nakano, who described himself as unemployed, did not know any of the victims. 

    Man stabbed to death at train station

    Updated Tue 20 Apr 2010, 2:16pm AEST

    Melbourne Police are searching for a man over the fatal stabbing of another Asian man at the Melbourne railway station this morning
    February 2010

    Man arrested after stabbing high school boy at train station

    TOKUSHIMA —
    CRIME 
    A 56-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder on Wednesday after he allegedly stabbed a 17-year-old boy in the back as he approached the ticket gate at a train station in Tokushima Prefecture... an unemployed resident of Miyoshi City, whose name has not been released, stabbed the third-year high school student in his back at about 11 p.m. Tuesday night at JR Awaikeda station, before rushing through the ticket gate and getting into a taxi... Police said the man, who has been treated for mental illness in the past, was incomprehensible at times during questioning
    homeless, man, attack student, train station, stabbing, taxi escape
    homeless man has taxi money? 

    June 8, 2008

  • Akihabara massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Akihabara massacre (秋葉原通り魔事件 Akihabara Tōrima Jiken?, lit. "Akihabara random attacker incident") was an incident of mass murder that took place on Sunday, June 8, 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter for electronics, video games and comics in Sotokanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
    At 12:33 p.m. JST, a man hit a crowd with a truck, eventually killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as asurvival knife[1]), killing four people and injuring eight.[2][3][4][5]
    Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Tomohiro Katō (加藤 智大 Katō Tomohiro?), 25, on suspicion of attempted murder.[4][5] The suspect, dressed then in a black T-shirt with a jacket and off-white trousers,[6] was a resident of Susono, Shizuoka.[4][7] He was held at the Manseibashi Police Station.[8] Two days later on June 10, he was sent to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office.[4][7] He was later re-arrested by the police on June 20 on suspicion of murder.[5][9] During the trial, prosecutors sought the death penalty,[10] and the Tokyo District Court agreed, sentencing Kato to death.[11]

    17 DECEMBER 2010

    • Children stabbed in station rampage - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
      www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...stabbed-in-station-rampage-28577023.html
      17 DECEMBER 2010

      An unemployed man has stabbed and attacked school children and other passengers on two buses outside a Japanese train station in a rampage that injured 14.

      ALSO IN 

      Police arrested Yuta Saito, 27, on charges of attempted murder after he was subdued by members of the public outside Toride Station in Ibaraki Prefecture, about 25 miles north-east of Tokyo, said local police spokesman Masaru Morita.
      "I wanted to end my life. It is true that I wounded people at random with a kitchen knife," Saito told police, Kyodo News Agency reported.
      Six people were stabbed and eight others had bruises and other injuries from punches or trying to escape, said Toride police official Mitsuyuki Ohura.
      Twelve of the injured were junior high and high school pupils, Ohura said. Officials did not say how many children had been stabbed.

      July 28, 2008

      • At a crowded Tokyo train station a Japanese tried to slash her wrist, but became angry when somebody bumped her. Then she was screaming screaming slashing people on a stabbing rampage at a crowded train station, wounding seven men but not seriously. after failing 

        Woman goes on stabbing spree in Japan - World news - Asia …

        www.nbcnews.com/id/25893322/ns/.../t/woman-goes-stabbing-spree-japan
        A Japanese woman went on a stabbing rampage at a crowded train station, wounding seven men after failing to slash her own wrist, police said Tuesday.
        7/28/2008 



June 8, 2001

Osaka school massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre
The attack · Aftermath · Deceased victims
The Osaka School Massacre took place on June 8, 2001, at Ikeda Elementary School, an elite primary school affiliated with Osaka Kyoiku University in Osaka Prefecture ...

ABC news: It took just 10 minutes for a man armed with a kitchen knife to unleash terror in a Japanese elementary school in a stabbing spree that left eight school children dead and injured 21 other people. In a chilling rampage that shocked the nation, a 37-year-old man burst into an elementary school in Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka, about 310 miles west of Tokyo today and began stabbing and slashing students and teachers.

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