Et sykt land
Bladet Metropolis, engelsspråklig magasin for folk som bor i Tokyo, som kommer ut en gang i uken, har på side to alltid en oppsumering av ukens begivenheter.
Man glemmer det ofte resten av uken, men når jeg leser denne spalten blir jeg alltid minnet på hvilket sykt land dette er.
Her er ukens begivenheter fra nyhetsbildet:
It was a big week for knife crimes in Japan. Good thing this is such a “safe” country, as my Japanese friends are so fond of telling me...
In Mito, a 24-year-old man who went on a stabbing spree that left one person dead and seven injured told investigators he had initially intended to kill his sister and then planned to attack a primary school.
In yet another case of bungled police work, eight plainclothes officers patrolling the train station where the stabbing rampage took place didn’t carry radios that would have allowed them to communicate with each other.
A cab driver was found dead in his taxi in Yokosuka after being stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife. A US Navy sailor, whose credit card was found in the taxi, was being held on a charge of desertion.
A man in Chiba was stabbed in the abdomen by a guy who demanded money and made off with his bag and cellphone. The police cleverly determined it was a case of robbery-assault.
In Nagoya, a woman was taken to hospital with a fruit knife protruding from her body after being literally stabbed in the back by a stranger riding by
on a bicycle.
A 17-year-old male high school student was arrested after stabbing a girl in the stomach in Iwate Prefecture.
A fresh arrest warrant was served on 58-year-old Ryoji Kagayama, currently in detention on another murder-robbery charge, for stabbing a young Chinese woman to death with a kitchen knife in Osaka in 2000.
An 18-year-old boy pushed a stranger to his death in front of an oncoming train at Okayama Station. The assailant, who later said he had gone to the station “hoping to stab someone,” had a kitchen knife stuffed inside his shoulder bag.
By Reg Dunlap/Metropolis
Man glemmer det ofte resten av uken, men når jeg leser denne spalten blir jeg alltid minnet på hvilket sykt land dette er.
Her er ukens begivenheter fra nyhetsbildet:
It was a big week for knife crimes in Japan. Good thing this is such a “safe” country, as my Japanese friends are so fond of telling me...
In Mito, a 24-year-old man who went on a stabbing spree that left one person dead and seven injured told investigators he had initially intended to kill his sister and then planned to attack a primary school.
In yet another case of bungled police work, eight plainclothes officers patrolling the train station where the stabbing rampage took place didn’t carry radios that would have allowed them to communicate with each other.
A cab driver was found dead in his taxi in Yokosuka after being stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife. A US Navy sailor, whose credit card was found in the taxi, was being held on a charge of desertion.
A man in Chiba was stabbed in the abdomen by a guy who demanded money and made off with his bag and cellphone. The police cleverly determined it was a case of robbery-assault.
In Nagoya, a woman was taken to hospital with a fruit knife protruding from her body after being literally stabbed in the back by a stranger riding by
on a bicycle.
A 17-year-old male high school student was arrested after stabbing a girl in the stomach in Iwate Prefecture.
A fresh arrest warrant was served on 58-year-old Ryoji Kagayama, currently in detention on another murder-robbery charge, for stabbing a young Chinese woman to death with a kitchen knife in Osaka in 2000.
An 18-year-old boy pushed a stranger to his death in front of an oncoming train at Okayama Station. The assailant, who later said he had gone to the station “hoping to stab someone,” had a kitchen knife stuffed inside his shoulder bag.
By Reg Dunlap/Metropolis
posted by Cathrine at 4/15/2008 06:38:00 AM
2 Comments:
whaat?! så drøyt... det er jo mange mennesker som bor ganske trangt i japan, så antall syke knivstikkere blir kanskje ditto høyt
Sykt? Dette klarer Oslo, med en halv million innbyggere, på en vanlig lørdagskveld :-)
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