Japanes guy kills seven with a knife

[Jezrith]

Racked about the same body count as most school shootings. It must have been one of those military "assault knives".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008


TOKYO, June 8 -- Screaming as he randomly stabbed shoppers with a hunting knife, a 25-year-old man killed seven people and injured 11 others at lunchtime Sunday in a Tokyo retail district.

Tomohiro Kato drove a white two-ton rental truck into a crowd of pedestrians, running over at least three people and then emerging from the truck with a large knife, according to police and witnesses.

Indiscriminately slashing and stabbing as he went, Kato then ran and walked through the center of the Akihabara neighborhood, where thousands of young men from Japan and around the world gather for electronic gadgets and comic books, computer games and nerdy fellowship.

[Matriel]

Oh noes, he used an automobile as a weapon!!!11111one :ohno::ohno::ohno:

[Xinnro]

Damn...Bad Ass.

He obviously watches too much anime.

[Killuminati]

I actually kind of wish banning all guns would be possible. Who wouldn't want to have badass sword fights and shit. I could become a samurai and travel teh lands and pk.

[Ludo]

He obviously watches too much anime.

Nah, they do nothing but sit on their fat ass harvesting acne

Edit: To think of it, if everyone banned guns and started wearing Katanas and Knives instead, that would have been a pretty fucking awesome battle royale.

[Killuminati]

Damn...Bad Ass.

He obviously watches too much anime.

I think he just slayed a bunch of otakus.

[Everto]

I actually kind of wish banning all guns would be possible. Who wouldn't want to have badass sword fights and shit. I could become a samurai and travel teh lands and pk.

sounds good to me.

[Bawlin]

Did you make this up to make the forums less retarded?

[Matriel]

Nah, they do nothing but sit on their fat ass harvesting acne

Edit: To think of it, if everyone banned guns and started wearing Katanas and Knives instead, that would have been a pretty fucking awesome battle royale.

Except I would cheat and have them anyway. Then all of you would cry hax while I killed you.

[Killuminati]

Damn...Bad Ass.

He obviously watches too much anime.

Except I would cheat and have them anyway. Then all of you would cry hax while I killed you.

We would still have body armor so I could charge you and slice you in half.

[Lethn]

Damn...Bad Ass.

He obviously watches too much anime.

Or he could have properly trained himself to use it or just attacked defenseless people who wouldn't know how to deal with a suicidal killer.

[Matriel]

We would still have body armor so I could charge you and slice you in half.

And I would have steel core AP ammo. :sly:

[Lethn]

Ego Flame war incoming!

[inox]

Oh noes, he used an automobile as a weapon!!!11111one :ohno::ohno::ohno:

Assault car? :(

Skree

[Nehemia]

In before the Skree.

[inox]

In before the Skree.

Did not!

[Fro]

Racked about the same body count as most school shootings. It must have been one of those military "assault knives".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008

you read the washington post alot. Is that where you get all your info from?

[Honorius]

Foreigners.

[Sabrok]

More original than guns, it would be more interesting if he used a bow.

[Largion]

He kills seven with a knife and get a thread in forumfall.
Must have been worth it! :(

[Slypieguy]

I was at that very Mcdonald's only 3 weeks ago. Scary

[Eskareon]

Things like this really speak for the overall stupidity of people. It took him multiple stabs to kill each one of them. So when he's attacking the first person with the knife, what's everyone else doing? They have two choices: kill him, or run away. The fact that he was able to repeatedly stab someone to death seven times blows my mind.

"Oh, look, that crazy man is stabbing that person. Oh no! Oh, look, now he's moving to someone else and stabbing them repeatedly. Oh no! He's stabbing them so much! Okay, now he's done with that person, he's moving on to another one! Whatever shall I do? Maybe I should just stand here and piss myself until he decides to come stab me!"

[Slypieguy]

Things like this really speak for the overall stupidity of people. It took him multiple stabs to kill each one of them. So when he's attacking the first person with the knife, what's everyone else doing? They have two choices: kill him, or run away. The fact that he was able to repeatedly stab someone to death seven times blows my mind.

"Oh, look, that crazy man is stabbing that person. Oh no! Oh, look, now he's moving to someone else and stabbing them repeatedly. Oh no! He's stabbing them so much! Okay, now he's done with that person, he's moving on to another one! Whatever shall I do? Maybe I should just stand here and piss myself until he decides to come stab me!"

Obviously you've never walked down a crowded street in Tokyo. Also, he drove his car into a group of people, so surely some of them were injured and unable to run, even if there had been any room to run

[Nehemia]

Did not!

You edited it there, 2 mins after I posted my IBTS.

[Largion]

Things like this really speak for the overall stupidity of people. It took him multiple stabs to kill each one of them. So when he's attacking the first person with the knife, what's everyone else doing? They have two choices: kill him, or run away. The fact that he was able to repeatedly stab someone to death seven times blows my mind.

"Oh, look, that crazy man is stabbing that person. Oh no! Oh, look, now he's moving to someone else and stabbing them repeatedly. Oh no! He's stabbing them so much! Okay, now he's done with that person, he's moving on to another one! Whatever shall I do? Maybe I should just stand here and piss myself until he decides to come stab me!"

Stfu.

[Thrill_KIll]

LOL...military assault knife. We should start a movement to say it's ok for people to have butter knives, but anything more is military/police only.


I feel bad for the people killed, but at least they died knowing they weren't getting shot. Also, does anyone else not find it funny that he waded into a group of anime nerds who we all know picture themselves as modern day ninjas, and owned them?

[Eskareon]

Obviously you've never walked down a crowded street in Tokyo. Also, he drove his car into a group of people, so surely some of them were injured and unable to run, even if there had been any room to run

I've been in the crowded streets of China and Hong Kong. Yes, it's packed. No, it is not impossible to get away from someone who has a knife. Unless, of course, everyone is too stupid to run away.

Ironically, the crowded streets are the best place for people to stop an idiot with a knife. If everyone around him actually tried to stop him, it would have been over in five seconds. But these were gamer and anime nerds, so I'm not surprised they got shanked.

[Largion]

I've been in the crowded streets of China and Hong Kong. Yes, it's packed. No, it is not impossible to get away from someone who has a knife. Unless, of course, everyone is too stupid to run away.

Ironically, the crowded streets are the best place for people to stop an idiot with a knife. If everyone around him actually tried to stop him, it would have been over in five seconds.

Maby they tryed to stop him and got stabbed?

[Viluin]

I've been in the crowded streets of China and Hong Kong.

Yes, because a crowded street in China or Hong Kong is the same as a crowded street in Tokyo..

[Gloomrender]

Killing 7 and injuring 11 with just a knife? It might not be moral, but thats definitely manly shit...dare I say badass...

[Eskareon]

Yes, because a crowded street in China or Hong Kong is the same as a crowded street in Tokyo..

It pretty much is. Virtually no room to move around in. But, hey, you haven't been to either, so I expect you to post just to up your count.

[Viluin]

It pretty much is. Virtually no room to move around in. But, hey, you haven't been to either, so I expect you to post just to up your count.

I lived in Tokyo for 8 years.

[Matriel]

I've been in the crowded streets of China and Hong Kong. Yes, it's packed. No, it is not impossible to get away from someone who has a knife. Unless, of course, everyone is too stupid to run away.

Ironically, the crowded streets are the best place for people to stop an idiot with a knife. If everyone around him actually tried to stop him, it would have been over in five seconds. But these were gamer and anime nerds, so I'm not surprised they got shanked.

Hey, when you spend decades trying to persuade people to not fight back, they aren't going to when situations like this occur.

[Eskareon]

I lived in Tokyo for 8 years.

Must have been where you learned to wash without soap.

[Xinnro]

Must have been where you learned to wash without soap.

You don't really need soap to wash yourself.

Water alone is enough.

[Killuminati]

You don't really need soap to wash yourself.

Water alone is enough.

Soap was invented to oppress europeans.

[Viluin]

Must have been where you learned to wash without soap.

1.5 hours later and that's all you could come up with?

[Marbo]

First stabbings in England and now this? We need to ban all knives because it seems the evil spirits that made guns evil just possessed knives.

[Ungraylessness]

I lived in Tokyo for 8 years.

Wanted to be closer to Sony no doubt.

[Bunkah]

First stabbings in England and now this? We need to ban all knives because it seems the evil spirits that made guns evil just possessed knives.

hahaha!!!!!!

and yeah.. ban everything that kills... Carebear world FTW!

[Ungraylessness]

hahaha!!!!!!

and yeah.. ban everything that kills... Carebear world FTW!

You'll hope for a safer world until they ban your sarcasm

[Shadowoak]

Except I would cheat and have them anyway. Then all of you would cry hax while I killed you.

so, have you decided yet if knives are as deadly as guns?

[Matriel]

so, have you decided yet if knives are as deadly as guns?

In certain scenarios totally. However, I've done a lot of training (force on force) that was knive versus gun, so I feel confident in fighting an adversary with a knife.

[FraBaktos]

Looks like somebody may have been playing a bit too much GTA IV... :/

[Fluffington]

It happend in Akihabara, to humanity it is not much of a crime but more of a service.

In Akihabara nerds hang out and cosplay as girls. It would almost be interesting if it were not so creepy.

[Arkh]

Ban knives. We should really think about it.
In fact no, we should ban arms : every killer use his arms to drive a car, stab with a knife or fire a gun. Yup, ban arms or at least hands.

[Fluffington]

Ban knives. We should really think about it.
In fact no, we should ban arms : every killer use his arms to drive a car, stab with a knife or fire a gun. Yup, ban arms or at least hands.

I disagree, I recently spin kicked an infant into a bucket of used needles. I used energy to do this. Instead of banning things, which people will do anyway, we should get rid of them. We use energy for all actions, including murder. Contact the ForumFall Physics club, we are going to get rid of all energy!

[heroshade]

Racked about the same body count as most school shootings. It must have been one of those military "assault knives".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008
and yin sais america is a dangerous place. *scoff*

[Someone]

I'm wondering wheter they will jail him or pronunce him a hero for battling the Otaku menace. I'm thinking the weird right wing groups might call him a hero and at the same time saying that his actions are a proof on the corrupting influence of immigrants.

[MandorRook]

Ban knives. We should really think about it.
In fact no, we should ban arms : every killer use his arms to drive a car, stab with a knife or fire a gun. Yup, ban arms or at least hands.

Ban Japanese people. If there were no Japanese people this story could not have happened.

[Fluffington]

I'm wondering wheter they will jail him or pronunce him a hero for battling the Otaku menace. I'm thinking the weird right wing groups might call him a hero and at the same time saying that his actions are a proof on the corrupting influence of immigrants.

Actually, all I've seen is people talking about how much it sucked that it happend. Recently there was a US marine that raped a 13 year old japanese girl, that definately won some immigrant hate.

[Someone]

Hmmmm, so Otakus have been forgiven their crimes during the 80s. I better cancel that Otaku hunting trip then. But yeah there is some immigrant hate from the normal populace there, but then there's the remnants from the military party in power during WW2 who has some real proper immigrant hate going on.

[Fluffington]

Hmmmm, so Otakus have been forgiven their crimes during the 80s. I better cancel that Otaku hunting trip then. But yeah there is some immigrant hate from the normal populace there, but then there's the remnants from the military part in power during WW2 who has some real proper immigrant hate going on.

Actually, Japan does not have a military. They are forming a defence force, I think. After WW2 Japan's consitution (which was written by the us, so was translated from english to japanese) says they cannot have any kind of military force. The US is put in a "Defender of Japan" status.

[Someone]

Damn, that should have been military party, not military part. And I do know that they're not allowed to have a proper military, which is in part why America has so many bases in the country and why US marines get the chacne to go around raping people.

But I did see one of those ultra-nationalistic criers/preachers people in Tokyo when I was there last time. He was using a megaphone to spread his message while some other guy was waving around a black flag. I couldn't really understand what he was saying but my friend said it was the same old stuff about how Japan is the greatest nation in the world and the foreigners are ruining it all so they needed to throw them all out.

[BlackVolgan]

stabbings are so fucking savage.

it makes me cringe just imagining what would have happened.

ugh... crazy japs

[Brillen]

We would still have body armor so I could charge you and slice you in half.

Body armor don't work so well if he shoots you in the head. :p

[Metal Wolf]

Ban Japanese people. If there were no Japanese people this story could not have happened.

America tried that, ran out of bombs.


Also, ninja.

[Khahan]

Damn...Bad Ass.

He obviously watches too much anime.

Bullshit, he got 3 or 4 with his truck, before he even got the knife out. He's no ninja.. Any redneck could pull that off.

[Slypieguy]

Actually, Japan does not have a military. They are forming a defence force, I think. After WW2 Japan's consitution (which was written by the us, so was translated from english to japanese) says they cannot have any kind of military force. The US is put in a "Defender of Japan" status.

They have a "Self Defense Force," which basically is a military. I read a Japanese Supreme Court case on someone challenging its constitutionality, and the court basically swept it under the rug and said "nothing to see here." Supposedly the SDF is only for defensive purposes, and isn't allowed to maintain any offensive units/gear/bases. Last year the party who wanted to remove that clause from the constitution got into power for the first time since 1993, but at the same time talk of changing the constitution has dwindled. So they have gotten their chance and decided to twiddle their thumbs on that issue. Reminds me of the dems taking congress here and changing absolutely nothing about the Iraq war.

[Lethn]

I think part of the Japan xenophobia is partly to do with the Yakuza mafia or something, dunno the whole of it but don't they try really hard to keep foreigners out and stuff?

[Kekshorts]

And I would have steel core AP ammo. :sly:

dragon skin>steel core rounds :ninja:

[Slypieguy]

I think part of the Japan xenophobia is partly to do with the Yakuza mafia or something, dunno the whole of it but don't they try really hard to keep foreigners out and stuff?

The Yakuza don't care about foreigners in general, it's just when foreigners step into their business that they get pissed. The whole nightlife area of Roppongi was slowly taken over by the Chinese mob in the 80s or 90s and so the Japanese Yakuza went and imported a bunch of Nigerians/other Africans to get rid of the Chinese. Apparently they bit off more than they could chew, because the Nigerians still control that area. A lot of the older population still has some bitterness from WW2, but most of the younger people are perfectly fine with foreigners. Sometimes there is a bit of snobbishness towards foreigners though, especially ones who don't know the language, but most of the younger japs are pretty receptive. Hell I had guys buying me drinks at the bar, just because they think it's interesting to meet a foreigner.

[Fluffington]

They have a "Self Defense Force," which basically is a military. I read a Japanese Supreme Court case on someone challenging its constitutionality, and the court basically swept it under the rug and said "nothing to see here." Supposedly the SDF is only for defensive purposes, and isn't allowed to maintain any offensive units/gear/bases. Last year the party who wanted to remove that clause from the constitution got into power for the first time since 1993, but at the same time talk of changing the constitution has dwindled. So they have gotten their chance and decided to twiddle their thumbs on that issue. Reminds me of the dems taking congress here and changing absolutely nothing about the Iraq war.

The clause which says they are not allowed to have any sort of force is in one of my japanese textbooks. It is in english because the Japanese Constitution was written in english first, it states pretty clearly that Japan cannot have any armed forces. Japan needed some sort of military to get a better position in the UN, so they got one. Not that it matters, eventually China will rule the world anyway.

[Slypieguy]

The clause which says they are not allowed to have any sort of force is in one of my japanese textbooks. It is in english because the Japanese Constitution was written in english first, it states pretty clearly that Japan cannot have any armed forces. Japan needed some sort of military to get a better position in the UN, so they got one. Not that it matters, eventually China will rule the world anyway.

Yea, they just put "Self Defense" in its name and lol at their constitution.

[losinglife]

it would be so damn easy to kill people with a knife.

Just hit a crowded street and randomly stab people in the back between the ribs, then continue on to the next person.

[Pcheez]

it would be so damn easy to kill people with a knife.

Just hit a crowded street and randomly stab people in the back between the ribs, then continue on to the next person.

Not quite as easy without proper training with that knife.

Thrusting a knife around is much more tiring than it may sound.

[losinglife]

Not quite as easy without proper training with that knife.

Thrusting a knife around is much more tiring than it may sound.

hahah i am not sayin pretend the crowd is a hack n slash video game. I am sayin just randomly 1 stab someone then move on.