Friday, December 20, 2013

Gun Crime In Asia

Gun Crime In Asia



Japan has had no mass murders with guns in more than 70 years and very few mass murders of any sort.

Fishing union boss shot dead in Japan Channel News Asia‎ - 12/20/2013 Japanese police said the head of a fishermen's union was shot dead on Friday, the second fatal shooting in as many days in a nation unaccustomed to gun crime.Gun crime is rare in Japan, and incidents involving firearms usually have a connection to organised crime groups. Ueno, whose family runs a civil engineering company, was previously fired at in front of his house in 1997 but escaped unhurt... shooting came the day after the resident of a well-known dumpling restaurant chain was shot dead in the ancient western city of Kyoto.

December 19, 2013 The popular president of a well-known dumpling restaurant chain in Japan was shot dead on Thursday morning in Kyoto

 Japan dumpling boss shot dead


    1. The Japan Daily Press ‎- 1 day ago
      The popular president of a well-known dumpling restaurant chain in Japan was shot dead on Thursday morning in Kyoto, long-known to be a ...

  1. Ohsho Dumpling King Dead After Suspected Shooting - Japan Real ...

    blogs.wsj.com/.../ohsho-dumpling-king-dead-after-suspected-shooting/

    18 hours ago - ... Thursday after being found lying in the parking lot of his company headquarter in the western city of Kyoto following a suspected shooting.

  2. Japan's 'Dumpling King' shot dead in Kyoto News JapanDailyPress ...

    www.news.nom.co/japan-s-dumpling-king-shot-dead-in-kyoto-7538825...

    2 days ago - NEWS: Japan's 'Dumpling King' shot dead in Kyoto. The popular president of a well-known dumpling restaurant chain in Japan was shot dead ...

  3. Japan dumpling boss shot dead in Kyoto: Reports - The Straits Times

    www.straitstimes.com/.../japan-dumpling-boss-shot-dead-kyoto-reports-2...

    2 days ago - TOKYO (AFP) - The charismatic boss of a well-known dumplingrestaurant chain was shot dead on Thursday in the ancient Japanese city of ...

  4. Head of dumpling restaurant chain shot dead in Japan - News ...

    voiceofrussia.com/.../Head-of-dumpling-restaurant-chain-shot-dead-in-Ja...

    2 days ago - The president of a popular dumpling restaurant chain was shot dead early Thursday in Kyoto, western Japan, local media reported.
November 1, 2013
  1. Drunk policeman arrested for deadly shooting in China | Business Line

    www.thehindubusinessline.com/...shooting...china/article5303933.ece

    Nov 1, 2013 - Chinese policeman was arrested after he allegedly shot a woman dead and injured another in China's southern Guangxi Zhuang ...

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-11/01/content_30467667.htm Policeman detained for shooting pregnant woman  China Daily, November 1, 2013 A police officer in South China was detained on Monday on allegations of shooting and killing a pregnant woman. Police said the officer was intoxicated and had a dispute with the victims.Suspect Hu Hu arrived and asked if the restaurant sold milk tea. When he was told it did not, he threatened two customers with his gun and then shot the couple. The report added the suspect was not wearing his uniform at the time, and witnesses said he was accompanied by two others who left in a white car..A similar shooting happened in Laibin, near Guigang, on July 21, 2011.
Tan Ningjiang, a police station chief in the city, shot one person dead and wounded another while drunk. Last year, there were two cases in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in which police officers shot and killed civilians. 
  1. Soldier sentenced to three years for South Korea BB shooting ...

    www.stripes.com/.../soldier-sentenced-to-three-years-for-south-korea-bb-...

    Sep 13, 2013 - A U.S. soldier was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for firing 10 shots at pedestrians with a BB gun in a crowded Itaewon intersection, ...


A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting ...

www.theatlantic.com/.../archive/...japan...shooting.../260189/

Jul 23, 2012 - In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, Japanhas as few as two gun-related homicides a year.



  1. China shooting spree ends with six dead - The Guardian

    www.theguardian.com › News › World news › Gun crime

    Jun 23, 2013 - One victim beaten to death and five others fatally shot in country where few own firearms and gun violence is rare.

  2. Rare china shooting spree kills six, prompts even tighter gun controls

    www.ibtimes.com/rare-china-shooting-spree-kills-six-prompts-e...

    Jun 24, 2013 - shooting spree in Shanghai has officials responding with even stricter gun safety initiatives as netizens debate gun control.Six people were killed when a man in China went on a rare shooting spree at a chemical plant in Shanghai’s Baoshan district. A 62-year-old man, identified as Fan Jieming, is reportedly the person responsible for shooting and killing five people and brutally beating another to death. news agency Xinhua is saying that, prior to Fan’s shooting spree, he was involved in an altercation about the privately owned factory’s finances with a coworker at the chemical plant. Fan was reportedly the office manager at the plant, which had ceased production in mid-May as a result of pollution complaints, local news source Caixin says.Fan grabbed a tool and bludgeoned his colleague to death. Fan then returned to the factory’s staff dormitory where he had stashed a hunting gun, retrieved the weapon and fled to Shanghai’s Pudong area in an illegal taxi. Fan then killed the vehicle’s driver and used the vehicle to drive back to Baoshan, where the factory is located, killing a soldier in front of a military unit’s barracks and thus obtaining an additional gun. With both weapons, Fan made his way back to the factory and killed another three employees, including the factory’s supervisor, before being subdued by a police officer who was patrolling the area. Four other people were shot and sustained injuries.
    Fan is now under police custody, and the case is still under investigation. Shooting rampages are very rare in China.. firearms for hunting purposes are already tightly controlled by officials. In addition to a hunting permit, gun owners must register for additional permission at local police stations in order to keep a hunting rifle.









  • Why Japan is so safe from guns - NY Daily News

    www.nydailynews.com/opinion/japan-safe-guns-article-1.1223065

    Dec 19, 2012 - The last time Japan suffered a mass shooting comparable to last Friday's murders in Newtown, Conn., was back in 1938, when a man dying of  ...To get a license in Japan, you have to pass a psychological exam and run the gauntlet of a paperwork process made to be inconvenient. Once you get a license, you better be able to account for every round of ammunition you ever shot at target practice or while hunting.
    The last time Japan suffered a mass shooting comparable to last Friday’s murders in Newtown, Conn., was back in 1938, when a man dying of then-incurable tuberculosis murdered 30 people with a shotgun, an ax and a sword.
    Japan has seen some mass homicides since then. In 1995, a terrorist organization attacked the Tokyo subway with sarin gas, murdering 13 people. In 2001, a school janitor murdered eight students with a kitchen knife. In 2008, a man murdered three people by hitting them with a truck, then stabbed four more to death.
    Yet these incidents, awful as they are, illustrate the obvious truth that it is easier for most people to kill with a gun than with anything else


  • So Japan has very few guns, no mass murders with guns in more than 70 years and very few mass murders of any sort.












  • Guns in Japan: Firearms, armed violence and gun law - GunPolicy.org

    www.gunpolicy.org › Regions › Asia › East Asia

    The estimated rate of private gun ownership (both licit and illicit) in Japan is 0.6 ... InJapan, annual shooting deaths in which the cause remains undecided total
















  • Gangster, 62, dead after Japan gun rampage - World news - Asia ...

    www.nbcnews.com/id/33708527/

    Nov 6, 2009 - A gunman wounded three men near Tokyo on Friday before hiding in a building and apparently killing himself — a rare shooting spree that ...
















  • China to JapanShooting Down Drones Would Be Act of War | The ...

    thediplomat.com/.../china-to-japan-shooting-down-drones-woul...

    Oct 31, 2013 - Plus, South Korea hopes to deploy two light aircraft carriers by 2036. Monday defense links.
















  • Osaka school massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre

    The Osaka School Massacre was the second largest mass murder, along with the Matsumoto incident, in recent Japanese history, both crimes exceeded only by  ..
















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