A man carrying a katana has engaged in a sword-fight with a squad of riot police at the Japanese prime ministerial residence, successfully cutting off the thumb of one policeman.
The man, in his twenties, attacked police 150m from the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo’s central Chiyoda district. Reportedly his hair “was dyed seven colours.”
Using what appeared to be a Japanese katana, he began a confrontation with police, who attempted to subdue him.
As he was fighting police he struck off the left thumb of one officer with his sword.
After subduing him police immediately charged him with attempted murder, interfering with a public servant in pursuit of their duties, and possessing an illegal weapon.
He admits the charges, and police are investigating his motives.
Pictures seem to show police with batons and riot shields squaring off against the man, their batons held in sword-fighting stances – this appears to be standard training for Japanese officers (most of whom are kendo practitioners), as evidenced in previous incidents, but the officer who lost his thumb is probably regretting police disdain for firearms (carried as standard), tasers or pepper spray.
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next time, wear a gauntlet.
(Y) (Y). Oh wait. (Y).
he gets free gundam thumb.. :(
Sirry porisu. When wirr you rearn?
Maybe the police arrested his rival, the white-haired samurai and he wanted to take vengence?
Only in japan.
and here I thought they were gonna blame it on anime and manga again....Oh wait it hasn't been 24 hours yet ...well fingers crossed
I thought the Riot Police were trained in Yoshinkan Aikido. shouldn't his training have helped him keep his thumb?
It certainly gave him the confidence to attack a sword wielding maniac with his stick.
I think that's the same confidence Miyamoto Musashi used to kill Sasaki Kojiro with an oar.
yeah, i definitely agree with u there. but i always see the aikido guys take the swords away with their cool moves. maybe he didn't practice?
Reminds of the guy with a Katana in Hamburg. German police used a broom(!):
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=8536J5LN5Tk
Witchcraft! ^_^
I want picture of rainbow samurai.
Guns, do you have them?
YES, but can we shoot them with out a massive career ending shitstorm, NOT EVEN IF OUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT
The policeman was reportedly taken unawares.
Geez.
Sword + Weird Hairdo.. Fit the description of a Shinigami from Bleach
Aw, that's sucks man. The man need to be punished.
How about they use a fire truck and instead of water they pack with pepper spray now talk about Major eye, skin and breathing irritation even 100 people with Samurai won't do a Kamikaze if they can't see! No Casualties!
Actually, extreme overdose of pepper spray can cause fatalities. There are documented cases happening in the U.S. due to over-zealous police.
Cosplay Revolution will be written in history book.
"The Cosplay Revolutionary War Started in the month of august. when ***** cut off a policeman thumb."
Katana 1 vs 0 Bare hands
Predictable?
Taser that punk ass.
Uh the thumb can only be reattached if its a clean cut. IF its not a clean cut then the nerves won't reform and be useless.
Japanese cops are awesome. Haha. I'd hate to lose an appendage...
should have taze him Brah!
I don't suppose they can reattach it?
The Japanese police aren't called "the keystone cops" for no reason, you know. Incompetent lazy (and officially racist) fucks to a man. A while ago a whole bunch of them were facing off against one Yakuza guy -with hostages- who started firing at the police and threatening to kill the hostages. The police did sweet FA: critially endagering the public, and the Yakuza guy killed a 20-ish-year old new recruit pig with a young family, into the bargain. If shit goes down near you while you in Japan, just make sure you get out of the area and wait for it to burn out, because the police certainly won't be doing anything to help.
I'm surprised the Japanese don't use an appropriate "old-style" weapon.
The batons they have are shorter than katanas, so the bad guy has the advantage of "reach".
I'm thinking an appropriate cop-weapon for such circumstances would be a long pole with a short, jointed extension with a weight -- presuming the cops are trying for non-lethality.
If they don't care about non-lethality, a normal naginata is the way to go.
i say they just use a sharp stick
instead of batons they should at least use bokken. they could bust heads with them lol.
Yesterday was V-J day - Check
PM and entire cabinet does not visit Yasukuni Shrine for the first time since 1985 - Check
Guy thinks he's samurai by wielding katana and charges towards PM's residence of all places - Check
This can only be the work of those crackpot right-wingers and their twisted bushido beliefs, aiming to punish the "unpatriotic" PM Kan Naoto for this act of "treason".
See why they ban kids from dying their hair?
Maria cross finally snapped.
1. Wear steel gloves
2. Bring your own sword
3. Use gun, aim for feet
4. ???
5. Keep thumb where it belongs
4. would be try not to look and act like a hollow.
I had to get a bleach joke in.
All this could be avoided by using a taser as that would have been the perfect situation for one.
Most of the bad press tasers get is because of some retard with a badge misusing it for laughs or being panicky and tasering someone who is not a threat.
moron
just shoot for fighting samurai
The Rainbow samurai was actually a robot and he fought with with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeUPFjQHc in background and only wanted to make his wishes come true...
I guess it can't be helped.
It's actually quite strange that he had a katana sharp enough to cut off flesh and bone cleanly and yet he only chopped off one thumb.
Either he didn't cut off more than that on purpose, or he couldn't actually handle the sword.
do you know the basics of a sword fight?
1 a poliece baton is hard to cut through with only a katana, and if they are metal, almost no way in fuck,
if the cops had shields and batons, than its not a surprising outcome.
Japan, where even the Cops fight with honour.
Those who live by the sword will be shot by those who don't ...
Prolly the only country with the precious few people that has some honor left.
see my above comment on this.
there is a chance that if they used there guns they would be fired (not a good thing to be fired for) and if he isnt, he would have a desk job for the rest of his life.
getting his limbs chopped off permanently would probably have less consequences than shooting his gun once.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo would be proud!!!
I guess police have loyality or something like putting a sword fight, they could just shoot him in the arm and disable the nerves so he can't not even hold the katana but he still is alive.
But of course they can't do that without permission, sword stances.
Nowe days we fight with Katanas it should be awesome
you have any idea how much shit the cop would take for using his gun?
this is japan, they will get bitched out if the fire there gun even if they are being shot at themselves.
its a realy retarded policy.
They're not fucking robocop. Shooting a moving target in the arm with a handgun is not trivial.