Nineteen cities in Chiba Prefecture, including the populous Ichikawa and Funabashi, have received bomb threats via a document mailed to the respective city halls, police said.
According to police, the documents, which arrived on Monday, read: “The City Hall will be blown up by a terrorist attack. Divine punishment will be meted out. Be prepared.” There was no attack date written in the document and the sender did not make any specific demands, Fuji TV reported.
The Chiba prefectural government’s Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Department has ordered each city and town hall to be on the alert for suspicious items.
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Blattamexiguus
Have to ask which language they were written in. I'd lay odds on it being in Japanese.
Cogito Ergo Sum
Still pushing Japan as a terrorist target to jive with Abe's " fight with terrorists " mantra. For me? just a false flag.Still needs checking out though by the so much hyped anti+terrorists police.
Monozuki
Now it's already Wednesday. Hope they're all fake threats.
Magnus Roe
Regarding the "on the alert" phrase, that usually signifies something out of the ordinary right? I think JR stations started displaying the "Now on high alert, please report blah blah luggage blah blah" on their monitors and walls just after September 11, 2001 and still flashing up every few minutes over a decade later. It must be tiring to be this alert...? all the time... :p I think this warning is just potentially frightening to tourists and people from out of town as it makes it sound like something urgent has occurred.
drlucifer
Sow the seed s of fear and the populace will trade their souls even to the devil with the devil promising safety.
Louis Amsel
probably some pranks
sado001
I live in Funabashi but the security is not that tight. Hope its just a prank. Stations are the easiest target to be honest. Just saw a guy pass without paying and no one cared or noticed. Even small things like that gets in easily, then terror attacks can.
ToshiYori
What's the penalty in Japan for making such threats? Hopefully, the penalty is severe enough to prevent bomb threats from becoming routine.
Wakarimasen
Hmmmm. Daesh are learning to write in Japanese? Unlikely. surprised they didn't threaten Saitama.
commanteer
There are 1000s of Japanese who have converted to Islam. Considering the averages in other countries, it would be very surprising if at least a few of these people were not sympathetic to Daesh. And it only takes one to move from sympathy to action. And converts are among the most fervent.
Quite possibly a lone idiot wrote these messages just to stir up trouble. If the same lone idiot is instructed and encouraged by Daesh online, then he/she might end up killing people. Such threats have to be taken seriously.
nath
More unwarranted speculation by people who have too much time and too little information.