What’s With All The Random Street Slashings? – The Final Straw

This is it. I can’t take it anymore. It seems like every day there’s a new story. It never ends. There is something seriously wrong here and I’m starting to think it’s either cultural or the result of some sort of societal sickness. This is the last time I’ll update this post for awhile. It’s just too depressing.

Here’s the latest from the Mainichi Shinbun:

Schoolgirl fatally stabbed in front of home told paramedic she was attacked by man

KAKOGAWA, Hyogo — An elementary school girl fatally stabbed to death in front of her home here told a paramedic while being transported to a hospital that she had been attacked by a man, local fire department officials said.

When a paramedic asked the victim, 7-year-old Yuzuki Unose, “Who stabbed you?” she replied, “An adult,” an official of the Kakogawa Municipal Government’s Fire Department said.

When asked whether it was a man or a woman, she reportedly replied, “A man.”

A suspicious man who appeared to be in his 20s was spotted twice near the scene in the Befu district of Kakogawa before the incident that occurred at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday, investigators said.

Local police are searching for the man and are poised to conduct an autopsy on the victim’s body in a bid to determine the exact cause of her death. (Mainichi)

 

I’ve resurrected this post because this shit is getting ridiculous. I just want to know… what the fuck is with these losers that have to take out their frustrations on women by stabbing them? It’s a nationwide epidemic. 

People being knifed on the street or in other public places at random is seemingly quite common here in Japan.  Most of the time the victims’ wounds aren’t fatal, but occasionally they are. It’s usually some middle-aged guy who is quickly apprehended afterward and tells the police ‘誰でも良かった’ (‘daredemo yokatta’) which means ‘anybody would’ve been fine’. The victims are usually women. One can only guess that maybe many of these slashers have it out for women for some reason. Maybe they’re sexually repressed. Who knows? Whatever the cause, it’s definitely a disturbing trend. Here are some recent stories from the Mainichi Shinbun:

Woman remains in critical condition after apparent random stabbing in 7-Eleven

NAGANO — A woman remains in critical condition after being stabbed by a man at a convenience store here Sunday night, police said.

Investigators are grilling the man over the motives behind his crime, but he has refused to speak during questioning.

A 40-year-old housewife living in Nagano was paying for goods at the Seven-Eleven Nagano-Wakatsuki outlet in the Inada district of Nagano when a middle-aged man behind her suddenly stabbed her in the back, local police said.

The man then sprayed tear gas and ran into the store’s office, but was arrested by police officers who rushed to the scene. The man is charged with attempted murder.

The victim was quoted as telling police that she does not know the man who stabbed her. (Mainichi)

October 8th, 2007

Woman knifed by attacker on street in Aichi

KARIYA, Aichi — A woman was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant on a street here on Monday morning, leaving her with cuts to one of her hands, police said.

Police said a man who appeared to be in his 50s approached the 21-year-old woman from behind on a street in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, at about 8:20 a.m. on Monday and suddenly grabbed her left arm.

When the woman struggled, the man pulled out a knife and slashed the woman’s left hand, and then fled on foot, heading west. The woman suffered two cuts on her hand, each about 5 centimeters long.

Police said the assailant was of solid build, and was between about 160 and 165 centimeters tall. He had short, graying hair.

The woman had parked her car and was walking to her workplace nearby when she was attacked, police said. There were no other people in the area at the time of the attack, they said.

In two separate attacks in Kariya, a 21-year-old woman working as a kindergarten teacher was slashed by an assailant on July 13 and July 20. (Mainichi)

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Elderly man dies after being stabbed in apparent indiscriminate attack

SOKA, Saitama — An elderly man died after being stabbed on a street here in an apparently indiscriminate attack, police said.

The assailant, who calls himself Soichi Karube, 30, was arrested for attempted murder because the victim was alive at the time. Police upgraded the charges to murder after the victim died.

The culprit admitted to the allegations during questioning. “I wanted to kill someone, anyone,” he was quoted as telling investigators. Local police are trying to identify the attacker.

At about 7:10 p.m. on Tuesday, pensioner Shozaburo Ogawa, 78, was walking home when a man approached him and suddenly stabbed him in the chest with a knife, local police said. He was rushed to a hospital where he died from loss of blood.

The culprit called police from a nearby public telephone booth saying he stabbed a person. (Mainichi)

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Man faces attempted murder charge for indiscriminately slashing woman on train

September 13th, 2007

SAPPORO — A man arrested for slashing a woman on a subway train here Thursday morning has told investigators that it was an indiscriminate attack, police said.

“I wanted to attack someone, anyone,” the suspect, 64-year-old Hiroshi Ikeda, was quoted as telling investigators. Police are grilling him over the motives for his crime. He is accused of attempted murder.

At about 7:20 a.m., Ikeda slashed a 22-year-old office worker three times with a kitchen knife on a train on the Toho Line of the Sapporo Municipal Subway System, local police said. The train conductor overpowered the attacker shortly afterwards.

The victim suffered serious slash wounds to her chest and left shoulder that are expected to take three weeks to heal. Following the incident, three trains on the Toho Line were cancelled, inconveniencing about 3,700 people. (Mainichi)

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 Check out the guy’s excuse in the next story. Almost makes it OK, doesn’t it?

Drive-by slasher arrested, admits to other attacks

SAITAMA — A man arrested for slashing a high school girl on a street here has admitted his involvement in one of a few similar incidents in the area, investigators said.

Toshihiko Fukuda, 32, a construction worker from Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, stands accused of inflicting bodily injury.

“I did it to blow off steam after problems at work,” he was quoted as telling investigators.

In the specific case for which he was arrested, Fukuda slashed a high school girl in the right thigh as he drove past her in a car on a municipal road in Midori-ku, Saitama, on the night of July 27, local police said. She suffered serious injuries in the incident.

He also admitted that he slashed a 22-year-old kindergarten teacher in Iwatsuki-ku on the night of Aug. 20, also leaving her seriously injured. Police are questioning him over his suspected involvement in two other incidents that occurred in summer. (Mainichi)