Stabbings in the News

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Driver found in Tokyo's Ginza with knife in chest

The driver of a hired vehicle was found collapsed with a knife in his chest in an underground parking lot in Tokyo's Ginza on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Police said the male driver was found in a vehicle in the parking lot at about 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, collapsed with a knife sticking in his chest. He was taken to a hospital unconscious, where he was thought to be in serious condition. Police said there was a high possibility he had been stabbed by an assailant. Tsukiji Police Station officials said that the man was aged between about 50 and 60. The place where he was found was in the corner of a busy area about 200 meters east of JR Yurakucho Station.

At first, the police considered arresting him for possession of a dangerous weapon.

[Greji]

Mainichi: Driver found in Tokyo's Ginza with knife in chest

At first, the police considered arresting him for possession of a dangerous weapon.

Figures, but my favorate quote was "......Police said there was a high possibility he had been stabbed by an assailant. ....."

What astute police work!

[CrankyBastard]

Figures, but my favorate quote was "......Police said there was a high possibility he had been stabbed by an assailant. ....."

What astute police work!

Wow! That's the next step to suspecting foul play.
Hey G, you ever been suspected of fowl play?

[amdg]

Figures, but my favorate quote was "......Police said there was a high possibility he had been stabbed by an assailant. ....."

And a medium possibility that he had tripped and fallen on a knife that happened to be lying on the ground and was balanced on its hilt, and that he died in his car while trying to drive himself to the hospital.

And a very slight outside chance possibility that he was born with the congenital defect of "knife-through-heart-osis", and the death was merely the result of natural causes.

[omae mona]

And a medium possibility that he had tripped and fallen on a knife that happened to be lying on the ground and was balanced on its hilt, and that he died in his car while trying to drive himself to the hospital.

And a very slight outside chance possibility that he was born with the congenital defect of "knife-through-heart-osis", and the death was merely the result of natural causes.

My vote: he was driving one of those "izakaya taxis". The front passenger seat housed a full set of cutlery for preparing sashimi, slicing teppanyaki beef, etc. He drove over a bump and the equipment went flying, leaving a long blade lodged in his chest. He dulled the pain by downing the atsukan that he prepared for his next customer, and he was able to survive until the police arrived.

[IkemenTommy]

Figures, but my favorate quote was "......Police said there was a high possibility he had been stabbed by an assailant. ....."

What astute police work!

Every evidence points that it was a suicide.

[Captain Japan]

[American Oyaji]

There are a lot of non lethal stabbings that happen in Japan that never make the news.

They usually occur in Love Hotels though.

[Greji]

Wow! That's the next step to suspecting foul play.
Hey G, you ever been suspected of fowl play?

Ahh come on Cranky. Did Mulboyne tell you that lie about that pheasant?
I wasn't even in Tokyo that night and besides, the feathers in the back seat of my car were from an old pillow!

[mijonju]

No i think it was the deathnote

[CrankyBastard]

Ahh come on Cranky. Did Mulboyne tell you that lie about that pheasant?
I wasn't even in Tokyo that night and besides, the feathers in the back seat of my car were from an old pillow!

Yeah, yeah, I know.

You're just a pheasant plucker.

[Catoneinutica]

Seems the Londonistanis are feelin' stabby too:

Stab wounds led to 14,000 hospital admissions last year

Bonus Clockwork Orange quotes from the article:

"This is apparently a generational, almost cultural, thing that's getting into the collective DNA."

"Violent crime has doubled in the last decade and it is of deep concern that so many young people are increasingly uninhibited about carrying and using knives on our streets."

"We have also increased the use of stop-and-search by police and extended knife referral schemes so that young people convicted of carrying a knife receive education on the dangers and risks."

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Whenever the going seems to be getting rough in Japan, it's always good to keep in mind: TIJ? ICBWICBB*

*It Could Be Worse, It Could Be Blighty!

[Catoneinutica]

More news from stabby Londonistan with policy implications for stabby Japan!

Youth crime: Greedy, rude adults 'fuelling teen violence'

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2290376,00.html

Money quote:
[INDENT]Margaret Morrissey, of the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, said: "When talking about dysfunctional families, saying you've got to get a grip of your 15-year-old who is smoking, drinking and completely out of control is like saying you should fly to the moon. We need systems to identify these families, systems to support them and systems to take care of their children if they can't. Parents who are responsible feel hauled over the coals by comments like these."
Margaret Morrissey, of the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, said: "When talking about dysfunctional families, saying you've got to get a grip of your 15-year-old who is smoking, drinking and completely out of control is like saying you should fly to the moon. We need systems to identify these families, systems to support them and systems to take care of their children if they can't. Parents who are responsible feel hauled over the coals by comments like these."[/INDENT]

[Captain Japan]

[traycerb]

here's a scary but not particularly practical knife:

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when triggered it injects some kind of compressed air that pretty much explodes the insides of whatever it's stabbing. a pain to reload, but otherwise sweet american engineering at it finest.

[gomichild]

34 year old woman stabbed 7 people yesterday at Hiratsuka station: nikkei news [Japanese]

Thankfully no one died.

My local station though which makes it creepy and too close to home.

[AssKissinger]

Woman arrested after stabbing 7 in Japan 2 hours, 32 minutes ago



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.

The woman attempted to cut her wrist with an army knife at a shopping mall Monday night near the train station in Hiratsuka, 43 miles southwest of Tokyo, but someone bumped into her and she became angry, said police official Hidetoshi Yukitake.

"She was screaming as she was slashing people at random," Yukitake said.

None of the seven men stabbed were seriously injured, he said.

The woman was arrested at the scene after being overpowered by onlookers.

"She said she was frustrated. She was also angry at her father," Yukitake said.

The stabbing was the latest in a spate of similar attacks in Japan.

Seven people were killed in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district on June 8 when a man slammed a truck into a crowd of people, jumped out and began stabbing passers-by at random.

[baka tono]

I just saw the story about the crazy wrist cutting woman on the news and wtf is she dong smiling as the police lead her away? Crazy %$`&

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]Japanese police battling surge of random stabbings[/SIZE]

Suspects say they would have attacked anyone

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[Takechanpoo]

I just saw the story about the crazy wrist cutting woman on the news and wtf is she dong smiling as the police lead her away? Crazy %$`&

Japanese smile to deceive society's eyes, you know.

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Man attacks girl with saw in Ibaraki

A 13-year-old girl was attacked by a stranger with a saw at her house in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Monday, police said. The girl, a first-year middle school student, suffered a minor injury to her left arm. Her father, 42, reported the incident to the police at about 12:50 p.m. The man, carrying a saw and a sickle, which he apparently had purloined from the house, approached the girl, who was sitting in the garden of her house, and struck her on her left arm with the saw, the police said. He fled on foot after dropping the tools, they said. The man appeared to be in his 30s and about 170 centimeters tall, according to the police.

[Captain Japan]

[Catoneinutica]

"Hirano has said he believed Sheldrake was controlling his thoughts."

Uh...I guess Sheldrake needs to brush up on his thought-control skills. Or perhaps nihonjin have a DNA-encoded cloaking device that shields their thought processes from biologists/"mental telepathy" experts and other nosy gaijin.

-catone
-nihonjin thought processes are certainly opaque to me.

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Man kills 1, hurts 6 with sickle at Japan shrine

A Japanese man killed one person and injured six with a sickle at the grounds of a Shinto shrine where an autumn festival was winding down, police said on Sunday. A 42-year-old street stall operator was arrested over the incident, which took place late on Saturday in Hakusan city in Ishikawa prefecture, central Japan, an Ishikawa police spokesman said. A 30-year-old man died from his injuries, the spokesman said. Kyodo news agency said another victim was seriously hurt and five had minor injuries. Kyodo said the man told police he had become angry after being teased by a customer, went home and returned to the grounds of the shrine, where around 20 or 30 people remained after the festival, and began slashing at people with the sickle. Japan, where crime rates are relatively low, was shocked last June when a man who said he was tired of life went on a stabbing rampage in the crowded Tokyo shopping district of Akihabara, killing seven people and wounding a dozen others.

[omae mona]

Reuters: Man kills 1, hurts 6 with sickle at Japan shrine

Uh-oh... has anybody heard from long-time FG contributor Soviet Supreme? Hope he's not on the loose.

[pheyton]

Looks like it's time to bring "Carousel" to Japan.

Shit happens in Japan but it's still safe as fuck. Come to LA. In 1 month we have as many killings as Japan does all freakin year. It does seem that in Japan there is an epidemic this year though.

[ghostunit]

Looks like it's time to bring "Carousel" to Japan.

Shit happens in Japan but it's still safe as fuck. Come to LA. In 1 month we have as many killings as Japan does all freakin year. It does seem that in Japan there is an epidemic this year though.

It's not so much the killings but their motives and the strengthening of the social malaise of which they are symptoms.

[Buraku]

Looks like it's time to bring "Carousel" to Japan.

Shit happens in Japan but it's still safe as fuck. Come to LA. In 1 month we have as many killings as Japan does all freakin year. It does seem that in Japan there is an epidemic this year though.

So a little further south and drug gangs have turned the Texas Mexican border into a warzone like Asscrackistan. Thousands killed or kidnapped but the stupid media refuses to report it

[Behan]

[Behan]