Really hope the kids who survived are able to recover, and RIP to the ones who didn't make it.
This is terrible, terrible news.
This is terrible, terrible news.
What should the general public do, tackle citizens arrest him and deliver him to an institution? If someone was shredding paper up and switching seats on a train in the US what would people doI think mental illness is really pushed aside in Japan. Living in Tokyo I see a handful of clearly mentally ill people every week. I saw a man on the train literally rocking back and forth and shredding up paper while constantly switching seats the other afternoon, people just ignore it.
If someone was shredding paper up and switching seats on a train in the US what would people do
I live in a small Japanese city of only 50,000 people that surely no one has ever heard of and I still get accosted by mentally unwell people frequently. It's usually harmless and they just want to talk, but sometimes they want to yell and follow you around. My hometown in the US isn't San Fran or NYC, but it still has more than a million people and I never encountered similar situations there. Granted, back home you just drive everywhere and can more easily avoid everyone..
The Kawasaki Fire Department earlier reported that 16 elementary school students and three adults were injured.
Several residents in the area said they were shocked that such an attack could take place in what is usually a quiet town. Kosuzu Sunayama, 26, who lives near to where the stabbings took place, said she could hear the screams from her home.
"It's not the kind of place to have such a incident. Its not the kind of place to have such a horrible news," Sunayama said. "My heart is aching."
Wish the Bastard survived to face the parents of that kid he killed...and the family of the other two adults.
I don't get it....he stabbed himself in the shoulder before being arrested...but died at the Hospital later? Did he know what he was doing? Is there a vital spot on the shoulder that can kill you?
The suspected attacker also died from a "self-inflicted wound," Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. Police officers previously told NHK that the man, believed to be in his 40s or 50s, had stabbed himself in the neck.
The thing about rushing a man with a knife is that you'll probably get stabbed before he actually goes down. Most people aren't willing to go in first because of that. Case in point they did rush him and did get stabbed15?
Why weren't there any adults tackling the madman?
Where were the adults?
Have you seen their work life balance? There is none. Any other country would have gone nuts.
But. It's a culture of honor system. This is why these things are still rare in Japan.
Rest in Peace for both the deceased victims.The attack took place near a park in the city of Kawasaki, about 13 miles (21 kilometers) from Tokyo, authorities said. The children were waiting for the bus to the nearby Caritas Elementary School, according to the school's director Tetsuro Saito.
Kawasaki Police said a total of 19 people were injured, including the two victims who died. Police have named the girl who was killed as Hanako Kuribayashi. Her age was previously given as 12 by a spokesperson at Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital.
The adult male victim, 39-year-old Satoshi Oyama, was a father of a 1st grade student at Caritas Elementary School and a government employee. It is not clear if Oyama's child was hurt in the incident.
All 17 children who were stabbed were girls, most of whom were lower elementary students, according to Saito.
"Innocent students who are raised with love by their parents (have fallen) victim to the pathetic incident. I'm suffering from an unfocused anger and from (the) deepest regret," Saito said.
Heh... Some other guy with a knife in Saitama shot by police:
Heh... Some other guy with a knife in Saitama shot by police: