12 Stabbed in Akihabara
Sun 2008/06/08 09:50 JST
UPDATE: Video below and more photos at Japan Probe , Iza and AkibaBlog. Truly saddening.
Hijacked from Coco The Bean. The myth of Japan being a safe place seems to be changing of late.
Original text from Coco below.
From Japan Today
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At least a dozen people, including a police officer, were injured and five fell unconscious Sunday after a knife-wielding man attacked them in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo’s Akihabara area, firefighters said.
The firefighters said the man slashed at pedestrians with a knife. Police said they detained a man around the scene of the incident that took place around 12:30 p.m. and that the detained man arrived at the scene by car and hit several pedestrians with the vehicle.
Akihabara is an electronics quarters of Tokyo known as a center of Japanese subculture, including manga and animation, attracting many visitors from Japan and abroad.
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I heard the crime rate has been rising in Akihabara, but wow. Never would have expected this.
Picture is from a NHK broadcast and was posted on 4chan's /jp/
