A 25 year old man named Tomohiro Kato killed 7 people in the Akihabara shopping district yesterday in Tokyo Japan. He drove a rented 2 ton truck into pedestrian at 70kph hitting 3 people. He stopped his truck and headed back to the victims while stabbing 3 people on the way in addition to a police officer that attempted to apprehend him. He then ran into the crows and stabbed more people injuring 10 and killing a total of 7. Witnesses say he looked like he was enjoying himself. He was later apprehended in an alley and stopped after police threatened to shoot him down. The reason he stated was:

I came to Akihabara to kill. Anyone would have been fine (I don’t care who I killed). I was tired of life.

Apparently this is one of many violent attacks this year in Japan. Although Japan has a low crime rate, random attacks such as these have become more frequent in recent years.

It’s so devastating to hear about something like this so soon after the Sichuan earthquake. You would think people would realize “oh these people lost everything, I should feel fortunate.” But apparently this jackass couldn’t think twice. I would feel so unsafe shopping now, not that I leave my computer chair anyways but living in New York I’ve never actually felt unsafe (mainly because I don’t walk around alone) but its scary to think that something like this could happen to anyone, anywhere just because “anyone would have been fine”.

Update Apparently the media has checked out the background on Kato and saw that he was heavily interested in anime SO now they’re blaming anime for his actions. Lol…how stupid.

Japanese news coverage