
A group of six heathen Japanese junior college students visiting Florence took it upon themselves to desecrate the holiest site in the city, Brunelleschi’s crowning glory Florence Cathedal, a six hundred year old structure noted for its great dome, defacing the marble walls therein by scrawling irreverent graffiti on them in an act of brazen sacrilege.
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A 77-year-old man brutally slew his entire family, hammering them to death with blows to the head whilst they slept; his victims comprised his wife (75), his son (49), daughter-in-law (44), as well as his 4-year-old granddaughter, in what appears to be a failed murder-suicide.
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A housewife (25) was arrested on suspicion of attempting to sell five obscene pictures of herself, soliciting customers via online forums, we hear. She apparently committed the grievous act of saving five naked photographs of herself onto her memory card, taken with her mobile, and these were seized upon her arrest. She was offering them for ¥5,000 for 5, certainly a high price, but criminally high?
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Rag Gendai suggests that top shrink and noted game hater 岡田尊司 / Takashi Okada’s theories on “mental pollution” are directly applicable to the case of Akiba stabber Tomohiro Kato; in his view children into games lose the ability to discern fantasy from reality, exhibiting all the symptoms of drug addiction, and so degenerate into inhuman killers shorn of all pity or remorse.
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In a bizarre crime of random violence, three women were cut by an as yet unapprehended female assailant at an Osaka station, in a crime with an ominous resonance with the Akihabara incident.
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A lady (35), calling herself a “bridal planner”, has been arrested for beating a homeless girl into submission, and then confining her in her house and then starting to gather johns to rent the girl out to. The lady has been arrested on suspicion of assault and violations of child welfare laws. The age of the girl is not given, but given the charges she was obviously a minor.
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A lady teacher who scolded some pupils not in class lost her index finger when one of the boys ran off, slamming the door on her finger and severing it. The boy was subsequently given a stern talking to for defingering the teacher, the local Board of Education tells us, saying “it wasn’t a deliberate effort on his part to injure her, but he should’ve realised an accident was likely; he’s been given an oral warning”.
There was however a happy side to the affair: the teacher was a PE teacher. Perhaps this explains the Board’s in this case justifiably lenient response.
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The Greenpeace activists cum burglars who stole whale meat from a shipping company in an earlier publicity stunt have just had arrest warrants served on them, we hear. Aomori police intend to arrest two people involved on the morrow, on suspicion of theft. Of course they are innocent until proven guilty, but Japanese arrests usually result in conviction. Via TBS.
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A Canadian “journalist”, Benjamin Fulford, bearing a grudge against a leading international crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, picketed them in the very lion’s den of their Kobe headquarters, where he harangued them with a bullhorn: “Why are you trying to kill me?”
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Necrophile child eater and apparent otaku psychopath 宮﨑勤 / Tsutomu Miyazaki, who was hanged recently after languishing on death row for ten years, apparently spent his years in solitary confinement reading manga and watching anime, it has been revealed by a recipient of his letters.
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A grandfather (75), who attempted to beat to death his son (48) with a large pair of scissors/shears over his son’s decision to buy his middle school age daughter a mobile phone, has been arrested for attempted murder.
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Firstly, a girl (17), who posted messages to a bulletin board stating that she would perpetrate a massacre at a local train station which would put the recent Akiba rampage to shame, has been charged with a misdemeanour. She claimed she did it as a prank. Read the rest of this entry »