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gomichild wrote:every don-ki store is an accident waiting to happen...
Probably that. However, one good thing about the company is that they were prepared to promote young workers quickly - some store managers are only in their early twenties - so it was regarded as a good job to get. I give credit to the staff for getting all the customers to safety. Some of the early reports suggest that the three who died went back in to try to put out the fire or look for other customers.Bongo wrote:Wonder how little those 3 poor kids were paid hourly to work in that waiting to happen Inferno? 750 Yen an hour 800 perhaps.
Bongo wrote:Certainly not a place you want to do your last minute Xmas shopping with some nutter on the loose setting fire to the place.
Bongo wrote:It was just reported that there were fires at other stores including Yokohama.
I bet this is Yakuza trying to extort money from them and torching the place after they refused.
SAITAMA (Kyodo) A 47-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing a shopping basket from a Don Quijote outlet here Wednesday around 3 p.m. -- the same time that merchandise was set on fire, police said.
The woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of taking a 800 yen basket from the Omiyaowada store. A fire broke out around that time in the bedding section.
The woman was later caught with the basket, which also contained several other items from the store, including a watch, but she was quoted as telling police that she had no recollection of stealing it.
Police are expected to question her in connection with the fire, as well as two other fires at the Omiyaowada and Urawakagetu outlets of Don Quijote on Monday night. The bodies of three employees were found in the rubble of the latter fire.
Investigators said the woman was arrested early Nov. 18 for breaking into the same Don Quijote outlet by shattering the automatic doors with a hammer before stealing eight items, including a travel bag, worth a total 58,000 yen.
She was released without charges after a psychiatric test showed she may not be able to be held liable for her actions.
Another fire broke out early Sunday at a Tokyo outlet of the major discount store chain Don Quijote Co., which has been hit by a series of suspected arson attacks, but all employees and customers are safe, police said. The police suspect the possibility of arson in the latest case as a man and a woman who first found the fire said smoke had been coming from the lower half of a jacket on sale in the clothing section on the second floor of the outlet in Setagaya Ward. The fire started around 1:40 a.m. and burned down 630 square meters of the second floor of the two-story building with a total floor space of 1,300 square meters, according to the police. There were 21 employees and around 50 customers inside at the time of the fire, but all of them were safely evacuated, it said.
...The latest fire came after the Tokyo Fire Department issued a warning to Don Quijote President Takao Yasuda on Friday about improving fire prevention measures. The department has found 214 violations of the fire law at 24 of the 31 Don Quijote outlets in Tokyo. The violations include putting things in a stairway that would block the passage in the event of emergency. It will conduct emergency investigations at all of the 30 other outlets in Tokyo on Sunday.
SAITAMA -- Noriko Watanabe, the woman arrested for lighting a fire that killed three employees of a Don Quijote discount store in Saitama, has withdrawn her police confession and told her lawyer that she didn't light any fires, it has been learned.
Watanabe, 47, is accused of lighting several fires at several Don Quijote discount stores, including one at the Urawa-Kagetsu store that killed three employees....the rest...
"I was tired and I signed them because I didn't really care what happened," she said. She reportedly denied lighting the fires and said she would deny the allegations against her in her trial.
The Saitama District Court sentenced a woman to life imprisonment Friday for starting a fire at a discount store in the city of Saitama in 2004 that killed three sales clerks there. Judge Yoshinobu Iida said Noriko Watanabe, 49, set fire to four outlets operated by Don Quijote Co on Dec 13 and 15 in 2004. The Dec 13 fire destroyed one of the stores, killing three employees. Watanabe was charged with arson, attempted arson and theft. She was also charged with attempted arson at three other stores and theft for stealing goods. She has never given a motive for starting the fire. The court also blamed the fire disaster partly on Don Quijote's unique way of displaying goods in which it piles up as many items as possible to the ceiling. An insufficient anti-disaster system and a lack of anti-fire training for employees were also responsible for the disaster, according to the ruling.
A suspected arsonist struck a Don Quijote discount store in Yokohama on Wednesday night, apparently after knocking out the store's electrical power, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The Kanagawa prefectural police are investigating the fire, the second at a Yokohama Don Quijote store in the past six weeks. The fire occurred at Don Quijote Tomei Yokohama Inter store in Midori Ward. The police believe it was a planned arson because security cameras in the store were not working during the fire due to the power outage. The police suspect the same person set fire to another Don Quijote franchise in the city in May. According to the police, the fire broke out at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in a clothing corner. It was extinguished after burning several men's undergarments and about 50 square centimeters of the floor. Power was cut in the entire building 18 minutes before the fire broke out. The fire occurred during the power outage, according to an investigative source. The police discovered that part of the store's electricity system had been doctored to temporarily cut off power.
Mulboyne wrote:A former Donki executive has been given a 3 year and 6 month prison sentence for a 30 million yen fraud relating to compensation payments the company made to the families of those who died in the 2004 arson attacks. He diverted over 30 million yen to a consulting company he set up himself under the guise of advising on the issue. It doesn't appear to have been a very sophisticated fraud and it sounds like he had built up some debts boozing in hostess clubs which he needed to pay for.
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Mulboyne wrote:A former Donki executive has been given a 3 year and 6 month prison sentence for a 30 million yen fraud relating to compensation payments the company made to the families of those who died in the 2004 arson attacks. He diverted over 30 million yen to a consulting company he set up himself under the guise of advising on the issue. It doesn't appear to have been a very sophisticated fraud and it sounds like he had built up some debts boozing in hostess clubs which he needed to pay for.
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