Last time I recall a story like this out of Japan, some guy tried to release poison gas in their subway system. This was easily 20 years ago.
As a people, the Japanese appear to be happier, at least on the surface. And I think there is some comfort in living in a stable and homogenous culture.
“ Last time I recall a story like this out of Japan, some guy tried to release poison gas in their subway system. This was easily 20 years ago.”
That was a cult that pulled that. Japan hung the leader a few years back IIRC.
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I felt that way too when I lived there. On the other hand, crazy in Japan is C-R-A-Z-Y.
It does happen from time to time and usually with knives or swords.
The Osaka school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan on 8 June 2001, in which Mamoru Takuma, a 37-year-old ex-convict with a history of mentally disturbed and anti-social behavior, stabbed eight students to death and seriously wounded fifteen others in a knife attack that lasted several minutes. Takuma was sentenced to death in August 2003 and executed in September 2004.
Two killed, including schoolgirl, in Japan stabbing
https://edition.cnn.com
May 27, 2019
Two people, including a 11-year-old girl, were killed and 17 other children hurt in a stabbing spree in Japan on Tuesday — a rare act of public violence in a country considered one of the safest ...