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Right-wing activist arrested for attempting to free friend from jail

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A member of a right-wing activist group (uyoku dantai) has been arrested for breaking into Kojimachi Police Station in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward in an effort to free an incarcerated friend.

According to police, the man, identified as Kiyotaka Oura, 46, entered the police station at around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Fuji TV reported. He managed to get past the police officer on guard at the time and proceeded to climb over the back gate, after which he was immediately apprehended for trespassing.

Oura was quoted by police as saying he was angry with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Public Security Bureau following the arrest of a fellow uyoku member. From around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, dozens of right-wing nationalists had been protesting outside the police station before Oura barged in.

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Darwin Award.

6 ( +7 / -1 )

Now he will join his friend in jail.

4 ( +5 / -1 )

All these guys are pathetic losers. What did he expect would happen? Just confirms the intelligence of these right wing nuts

5 ( +7 / -2 )

It's getting cold. Now they can warm each other.

4 ( +5 / -1 )

In recent month's there's been a lot of "them" clustering around that kojimachi area , which is the vicinity of the yakusuni shrine. What are they planning to do, stirring up all those "good Japanese" folks with those loudspeakers and propaganda. Some say they are trying to recruit, and get at the okinawa agenda.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

4 ( +4 / -0 )

These guys need to go back to their computers and 2ch

-2 ( +1 / -3 )

Throw the book at him and lock him up. Fringe wackjobs be they right or lefty, are nothing but an annoyance to normal Japanese people.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

It's always good to see the fascists arrested; it happens far too rarely. I wonder what his friend did to get arrested.

0 ( +1 / -1 )

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