Konami Sports Club said Saturday it had received a letter stating that bombs would go off at its facilities in Tokyo on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
According to police, the threats came in a letter mailed to the company’s head office in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, Fuji TV reported.
The letter said that bombs had been placed in three gyms in Tokyo and would be detonated on Aug 25, 26 and 27.
Police searched the company’s gyms on Friday but found no explosive devices. There were no explosions on Friday or Saturday.
© Japan Today
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gogogo
Would be nice of them to name the gyms for public safety.
Onion
Disgruntled ex-employee perhaps?
Bernie O'Mahony
Errr.....
Mlodinow
@Bernie, I think gogogo meant which Konami gyms, as in location.
Although I assume the suspect didn't actually name which branch etc.
gogogo
@Bernie O'Mahony: There are about 40 Konami Sports Gym's in Tokyo.