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Roger
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 Tragedy in Akihabara.
http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/er/2008/ ... -zoku.htmlI'm really shocked. Not just at the magnitude of the crime or the nature of it, but the fact that you don't expect something like that to happen in Japan. You expect something like that to happen in the US. Westerners are the ones who usually act out on others, Easterners tend to act out on themselves.
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Joe
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Wow, that's crazy. Sad to hear what happened. There are just crazy people out there. Always have to be careful and watch out.
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conqueror
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supposed yakuza 'connections'.
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Roger
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vog_island
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what a fucking idiot. where are the marines when you need em? (well, obv. not in Akihabara)
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hillsy11
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Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:51 am Posts: 2981 Location: Seattle
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conqueror wrote: supposed yakuza 'connections'. C'mon...where did you read that? I would wager most of the publicized violent acts in Japan have nothing to do with the Yakuza.
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datadub
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At least there isn't access to assault rifles - or any guns for that matter - here.
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gatchabert
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japanese are going crazy now with stabbings and the toxic gas suicides lately. it worries me.
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conqueror
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hillsy11 wrote: conqueror wrote: supposed yakuza 'connections'. C'mon...where did you read that? I would wager most of the publicized violent acts in Japan have nothing to do with the Yakuza. the TV news where i'm from, and also on gaijinpot (an english teaching website). obv turned out to be bullshit though.
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shhhi_da_yo!
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Joined: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:02 pm Posts: 217 Location: 4th Dimension
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datadub wrote: At least there isn't access to assault rifles - or any guns for that matter - here. Well...there was that incident in Sasebo last winter where a guy killed a swimming instructor,her colleague and then himself with a shotgun. Not sure how he got access to one. well, rifles are permitted, strictly for hunting and target shooting though.
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vog_island
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no links to verify this yet, but according to my coworker, the police were present for at least 20 minutes as the guy continued to stab people and failed to subdue him--during which time 3 people died. there had been threats on the internet, which led to increased police presence the day prior, but nothing happened so they went back to normal yesterday. they also couldn't get enough ambulances through the crowds.
sounds like another case of mind-boggling police incompetence, like Lindsay Hawker...
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hillsy11
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There had actually been an increased police presence in Akiba going back a few weeks, stemming from a "street performer crackdown" they'd done.
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damaged Bryan
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hillsy11 wrote: There had actually been an increased police presence in Akiba going back a few weeks, stemming from a "street performer crackdown" they'd done. That was for some pop singer showing her underwear to a crowd of people. This is a tragedy and hard to believe I was there almost a year ago. Over the past 9 months since we left there has been a string of mild robbery's too. Go to Nokino Broadway, Akiba doesn't have that much Kaiju anyways.
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hillsy11
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damaged Bryan wrote: hillsy11 wrote: There had actually been an increased police presence in Akiba going back a few weeks, stemming from a "street performer crackdown" they'd done. That was for some pop singer showing her underwear to a crowd of people. This is a tragedy and hard to believe I was there almost a year ago. Over the past 9 months since we left there has been a string of mild robbery's too. Go to Nokino Broadway, Akiba doesn't have that much Kaiju anyways. I think it was a buildup, and the idol singer was the straw that broke the camel's back. I don't know about kaiju specifically, but a very large Mandarake "complex" went up in Akiba a few weeks back, and my understanding is that it's vastly superior to the one in Nakano!
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conqueror
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hillsy11 wrote: damaged Bryan wrote: hillsy11 wrote: There had actually been an increased police presence in Akiba going back a few weeks, stemming from a "street performer crackdown" they'd done. That was for some pop singer showing her underwear to a crowd of people. This is a tragedy and hard to believe I was there almost a year ago. Over the past 9 months since we left there has been a string of mild robbery's too. Go to Nokino Broadway, Akiba doesn't have that much Kaiju anyways. I think it was a buildup, and the idol singer was the straw that broke the camel's back. I don't know about kaiju specifically, but a very large Mandarake "complex" went up in Akiba a few weeks back, and my understanding is that it's vastly superior to the one in Nakano! i was there two weeks ago, where is this new mandarake joint?
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Disturbing
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