
Police in Akiba swooped upon another man wielding a knife in Akiba, but the knife in question was a small penknife, the man absolutely innocent, and the police unable to arrest the man, as they clearly hankered to do, as the blade was under the 5cm in length permitted to be carried by Japanese law.
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A man (36) who serially sniffed the armpits of 23 women and girls, ranging from 9 to 50, has been sentenced to 14 years of penal servitude, as well as a good caning, harsh even by the standards of order loving Singapore.
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“I’m boasting, but I’m a virgin, small, and have phimosis (and full phimosis at that)”. The ongoing efforts of the media to pin the blame for Akiba stabber Tomohiro Kato’s rampage on his otaku interests, as well as the efforts of 2ch to pin the blame on Toyota’s temp downsizing, have both taken a blow with the revelations about the man’s character emerging from a detailed dissection of the thousands of posts he made to various sites over the past year. They depict rather strongly a man obssessed with his own isolation and sexual insecurity.
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Mrs Wide Open, or 沢本あすか / Asuka Sawamoto as she likes to call herself, “22-year-old” exposure idol, scarlet lady and dabbling thief (30), has seemingly attained yet a new level of notoriety with the news that knife wielding rampaging spree killer Tomohiro Kato (25) was not only a fan of knives and anime, but also nursed some perverse fascination with her street gymnastics.
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In a change from the depressingly common efforts at suicide which severely inconvenience rail passengers, a lady instead apparently sought to do away with herself in the most honourable and traditional manner of cutting the belly; her choice of venue, a large supermarket in the middle of town, was a little less traditional though.
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With the recent incidents, it seems the regular pedestrianisation of much of Akihabara is on its last legs. Police and area committees seem set to announce an urgent suspension of the policy shortly, with police expressing concerns over the possibility of copycat crimes, even though Mrs Wide Open is no longer a fixture in Akiba. However, shops too have been urging an end to the policy.
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A 38-year-old lady who responded to a 15-year-old female high school student’s request for companionship via a woman-only dating site has been arrested for “obscene conduct”, after taking the girl home with her, and getting to know her rather well, we are told.
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Finally, the media finds the story it needs; we hear that Tomohiro Kato (25), the Akihabara mass murderer, had numerous dojinshi in his apartment (above), liked games, only sung anime songs at karaoke, and was an army otaku, with an interest in militaria (Fuji video bulletin, replete with ominous music). He “only had an interest in the 2D”, like a certain previous case. Let the witch-hunt begin?
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A man, identified as Tomohiro Kato (25), launched into a knife wielding rampage in Akiba, in which he indiscriminately attacked 18 people, with 7 of his victims subsequently dying. He apparently also ran people down in a truck, and attacked police officers, stabbing at least one. He gave the reason “I became sick of the world. I came to Akihabara to kill” for his actions.
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A high school girl who may have given birth in a school toilet and then hid the baby’s corpse there has been arrested. A cleaning lady at first discovered the dead babe, placenta still attached, stuffed in a plastic bag and dumped in a closet for cleaning utensils, in an outdor toilet of the Japan Aviation Academy, apparently having been there for four or five days. Police have arrested a girl attending the school on suspicion of illegally disposing of the corpse.
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An SM club, or “Domina School” as they call themselves, located in Shibuya has been shut down by police after area residents complained about the noise emanating from the establishment; three of the management have been arrested.
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A 69-year-old man, Masao Takada, stabbed to death his 76-year-old landlord in a dispute over feeding a stray cat; he was apparently enraged over the man feeding the cat despite his earlier warnings, and was also drunk.
After a verbal altercation he rushed back into his apartment to fetch his survival knife, and proceeded to cut down his opponent, who later died in hospital. He then attacked his victim’s daughter-in-law (42), who came running to see what the uproar was over; she escaped with minor injuries. Takada the Knife was soon arrested. We do not hear if the cat was injured in the fray. Via Sponichi.