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A man in his 40s died after a fight between several men broke out on a street in Fukuoka on Saturday morning.
A witness called police at around 12:50 a.m. and said a group of men were arguing on a street about 800 meters from JR Nata Station in Higashi Ward and that one man appeared to have been stabbed, Kyodo News reported. When police arrived, some of the group had dispersed, while others remained with the victim who was on the ground, bleeding from several knife wounds.
The man was taken to hospital where he died about one hour later.
Police said they are questioning the men who remained at the scene as well as looking for the others who left.
© Japan Today
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WA4TKG
So they can blame those guys since there’s no one else to frame
shogun36
One less thug.
Oh well.
Oh look, it's 4:30 PM right now.
Yubaru
What automatically makes a group of men arguing on a street a "gang"?
Harry_Gatto
Given that this occurred in Fukuoka I think that the writer, by using the term "gang", was implying that 893 members were involved.
tamanegi
What kind of gang are we talking about here?
Mocheake
Just round up all the people with missing digits and lots of body art.
3RENSHO
'What automatically makes a group of men arguing on a street a "gang"?'
Tattoos, gold chains around the neck, sunglasses, punch perms and L.A.-styled, designer-branded clothing...
Yubaru
Not mentioned in the article.
EFD
Fukuoka does seem to be a bit on the stabby side lately.
commanteer
Usually, that's what "gang" means in these articles. But the only one implying Fukuoka is a factor is you. I just get a little tired of the old trope of Fukuoka and gangsters, usually repeated by people who have never been outside Tokyo/Kanto (which has plenty of its own gangsters).
Christopher Mas Osan
I have lived near Nata Station from 2005 to 2009 for about 5 years.
The station for me was just a short 800 meter walk.
What I have witnessed in this area over the time I lived there.
Bosozoku -loud bikes that are really more an annoyance than anything.
There is really nothing around the station worth mentioning. Its dead there.
Taxi stand, lots of housing. There are no restaurants or pups anywhere around the station.
Zero snack bars.
North 800 meters put you at Sewa drug and market where behind there is public housing.
Only single mothers live there. Very gated.
South 800 meters put you at the gas station and it closes like clock work by 10PM closed on Sundays.
This was either young boys from the area getting into to it. Or a planned meeting gone a foul with the Kyushu mafia types of which yes are in this area. But just a few. Most harmless driving in there lowrider Crowns or Majestas. With the Bass shaking the doors off the car. For the most part. If I were walking down the street with my dog there. I always felt a bit lonely there. Because its really no mans land for the foreigner. I lived there during my divorce and just ended up staying for while because work was close and the rent was cheap.
No one bothered me. Ever not once.
I could jump on Rt 3 run down to Yahata nishi to see my kids too. Or the highway onramp.
This blows my mind. The area is so quite and peaceful lots of nice houses there and apartments. Most drive into Tenjin or Meinohama, seaport factories, Toto, Japanese live there just to go to work in the city.
I mean there are some really nice houses in this area.
Chihaya is close with good shopping. Hisayayama Costco is close too.
Its Japanese suburbia paradise really. Some nice Cafes around.
I am baffled. I doubt there has ever been murder in this place ever.
Shocking really. Fukuoka is great place to live. Higashi is nice.
stormcrow
Were they Japanese?