BOOM! Nagoya terror

[Taro Toporific]

Blast hurts at least one in Japan hostage incident
MSNBC
TOKYO, Sept. 16 - - - Three people were killed and more than 10 injured on Tuesday in an explosion in an office building in the Japanese city of Nagoya where a knife-wielding man had been holding several hostages, fire officials said....

[Taro Toporific]

Blast hurts at least one in Japan hostage incident
MSNBC
TOKYO, Sept. 16 ....

See NHK's videohere. NHK television's video showed paper and glass flying through the air as the blast ripped through the third floor offices of a delivery company.

NHT TV -- News 12:00

A man who took workers hostage at an office in Nagoya, central Japan on Tuesday morning has set off a massive blast. Fire fighters say two people died and 25 others were injured....

The explosion and fire occurred shortly after one-pm on TuesdayThe blast shattered the office windows, reportedly injuring passersby, police officers and firefighters. Police say the alleged perpetrator is a 52 year-old man from Nagoya City, and was demanding three months in unpaid wages.


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Three dead after explosion at hostage siege office in Japan
16:41 16 Aug
TOKYO (AFP)- At least three people died and more casualties were feared in an explosion that wrecked the fourth floor of an office building in central Japan Tuesday where a man had taken eight hostages, an official said.
"At least three people are believed to have died," said a local government official at the fire bureau in Nagoya 270 kilometers (170 miles) southwest of Tokyo.

[kamome]

Please repost the video. Didn't work when I clicked the NHK link.

[American Oyaji]

The world is becoming more and more dangerous each year.

[Taro Toporific]

Please repost the video. Didn't work when I clicked the NHK link.

Top story
http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/

Glass flying through the air as the blast ripped through the third floor offices of a delivery company: http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/ram/35.ram

[japslapper]

......With three months of unpaid wages and the guy did this?.....what with old keisai goin tits up......I guess that could happen loads more

Japan is getting more and more like Detroit everyday.....

.....In a society undergoing rapid change and no outlet for debate/discussion/openness then I guess this kinda thing is going to become everyday. Dont surprise me in the least

[Taro Toporific]

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.....In a society undergoing rapid change and no outlet for debate/discussion/openness then I guess this kinda thing is going to become everyday. Dont surprise me in the least

It's doesn't surprise me etiher. On the train this morning --as every workday-- I see a many wacko salarymen talking to themselves and flipping out.

Here's a VERY good
slide show by REUTERS of the the Big BOOM!

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[Neo-Rio]

Aren't there any legal avenues you can take in Japan to get back unpaid wages?

[Taro Toporific]

Aren't there any legal avenues you can take in Japan to get back unpaid wages?

My wild guess, is that the flamer-bomb guy was doing "catch sales", off-the-book, for the delivery company that he blew up.

from Mainichi -- Sept. 16, 2003

...Company officials said the hostage taker had worked for them on a commission basis. Upon taking the hostages, he demanded wage payments for the months from July through September.

Keikyubin officials said they acceded to his request, transferring 250,000 yen in cash to his bank account at around noon.

Yep, " 250,000 yen" for two months wages sounds like the sad base salary of an outside sales guy. No doubt, he "tried his best" for a few weeks and decided to cruise on the base wages alone (most common trick). He stressed out when he discovered that Keikyubin wasn't gonna pay him anything BECAUSE he didn't sell anything from July to September (and he may have had a subcontract with a no-payment-of-base wages until he made his first sale).

[Shibuya Me]

I seem to recall someone on this site said that the next thing these stupid Japanese men will start doing is sabotage the company they work at!

When I saw this incident on tv, I applauded his insight!

Who was that? Anyone remember?

[Big Booger]

I hate sales positions.. worked for a subcontractor of AT&T for 6 months.. worst 6 months of my life...

I would have blown the place up had my salary been any less.

[Taro Toporific]

I hate sales positions......

Obviously, this Flamer REALLY hated sales too.

Hostage-taker planned to murder branch manager
(Kyodo News) Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 12:00 JST
NAGOYA --- A 52-year-old man who took eight people hostage at an office building in Nagoya on Tuesday is believed to have orchestrated the crime to murder the branch manager of the courier firm Keikyubin Co....

The police believe his motive for the crime was not money but some grudge against the company, given that the amount of money he demanded was only 250,000 yen and that he also resisted releasing the hostages even after getting the wages he said had been owed to him for July, August and September, the sources said....

The branch office was responsible for assigning Beppu's deliveries, sources close to the company said, adding that frustration over his work might have led to his resentment against the branch manager.