Japan School Attack Injures 10 (Japanese student goes postal)

FoxNews & AP ^ | June 10, 2005

[DTogo]

TOKYO — A high school student in southern Japan threw an explosive into a classroom on Friday, injuring at least 10 people, police said. The motive was not immediately clear. The 18-year-old student was arrested at the scene of the attack in Hikari public high school in Yamaguchi state, police spokesman Katsunoru Uchida said. Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK said the explosive resembled a firebomb. They said around 50 people were injured, one seriously.

[DTogo]

Usually this happens with a "bullied" student seeking revenge, or stressed out over college entrance exams.

[DTogo]

Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[RichInOC]

(...trying manfully to avoid the temptation to post the obvious Zero Wing reference...)

(...and failing...)

WHAT HAPPEN?

[DTogo]

Toriaezu (for now) other than several accounts of various witnesses seeing the student throw a home-made bomb into a math classroom, Japanese newspapers aren't giving any motive yet. 57 injured, 1 seriously, the rest lightly.

[xJones]

Usually this happens with a "bullied" student seeking revenge, or stressed out over college entrance exams.

In Japan being accepted into a university is VERY important. High school students work very hard for years to get accepted, and if they're not then.....they failed and their job opportunities won't be nearly as prestigious/lucrative. The weird thing that the university courses are described as not nearly so demanding as the high school courses. Once you get there, you're in.

[AmericanInTokyo]

How would you say that in Japan do you suppose? That somebody "yuubinkyoku shichatta" ("went postal")?

Yep, I saw it on NHK.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I am sure DTogo is well aware of that.

[snowsislander]

Once you get there, you're in.

Yes. Unless you decide on a legal career, which then means more hard study and facing an incredibly difficult bar exam.

[riverrunner]

I guess he did not realize that this couldn't happen in Japan. Didn't he know that guns are out lawed there and this kind of attack could not take place.

Oh I forget sometimes people use other means to try and kill others.

Time to pass more laws outlawing trying to blow and burn people up.

[Wilhelm Tell]

An educational system that produces more engineers than lawyers can't be all bad.

[Wilhelm Tell]

According to the story, the crazy person used a firebomb. This would have never happened if the government had banned fire.

[Junior]

Don't you mean, "goes postar?"

[riverrunner]

Yep I guess you didn't read the sarcasm in my post

[ahayes]

Somebody set them up the bomb, of course.

[DTogo]

xJones: Yeah, it was bizarre to hear that from J-friends back in our college days - "You don't have to actually show up for classes?" They tend to have our college-equivalent education after leaving high school, and learn nothing in college, whereas we learn little in high school then have to study hard to get a college degree.

AiT, Junior: In Japan they'll probably use the Engrish term, then shorten it: air conditioner = aircon, hence "goes postal" = gopo?

riverrunner: In Japan if it's not murder by bomb, then it's their big hocho kitchen knives, wooden katana, or pipes and bats. Gun crimes are usually reserved for the Yakuza. ;)

[Fishing-guy]

If only he spent a little more time studying his homework and little less time reading about how to make bombs.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Zeus tried that once. Didn't work though Prometheous is looking for a liver transplant.

[JenB]

It's not funny, but I immediately thought of Sagara Sousuke.

[skinkinthegrass]

Usually this happens with a "bullied" student seeking revenge, or stressed out over college entrance exams.

Well?? ..that's "A Hell of a Way" to express, "MATH ANXIETY"...

[subterfuge]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!