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oldman_13
If it isn't random violent crime, these acts of terror continue. Very scary times.
rocketpig
In the last attack with the knife stabbing incident on the train, reporters spent way too much time on the criminals biography, "how he didn't have any friends, didnt have a girl friend, grew up in setagaya". The more you report on the criminals biograhpy, the more it motivates people to commit crime, duh! cz then criminals think, "oh, if I do something bad i can also get public attention from my life". Common, this is what you learn in journalism 101.
I hope that with this incident, reporters wouldn't make the same mistake and report on this guys life of why he decided to spill acid on other people. I expected this to happen, as the knife stabbing incident was just too motivating.
Strangerland
This mirrors how students learn history in school, whereby individual events are analyzed for their full context, to determine why they happened. We don't do this in Western media, so it seems weird, but for the Japanese, it would seem weird to not do that. When they see stories that leave out these details to them it feels as if these details are missing.
Really? Is that your theory or is it something actually proven somewhere?
descendent
Given how quickly they capture molestors and pickpockets using video surveillance, and given this was in the middle of Tokyo, I imagine they'll have this guy in custody soon enough. Massive failure if they don't.
Paul
All this acid throwing started in India a few years ago and since then spread to US and now Japan. I worked wit h sulfuric acid when I was younger it is very dangerous, burns very quickly especially in pure form and the burns can be very deep. I hope the two recover quickly!!!
Oxycodin
japan love tv talk show it fuels them with fire with such stories and gives the talk host air time or tv talk show would be all about eating food and how delicious it is
Politik Kills
@rocketpig Right on!
this is exactly what I keep saying about the reporting of suicides. The reporting of certain details just produces copy-cat occurrences. Especially in Japan where there is a very strong ‘group’ mentality.
this domestic terrorist will be caught soon and plead the same kind of ridiculous garbage as the the knife guy. And the media will breathlessly report his every excuse. And the cycle continues.
Michael Machida
Find this crazy guy and place him in jail forever.
Sam Watters
Yes, it has been widely proven. Gavin DeBekker, FBI behavior specialist on copycat crimes, if you want to look it up.
ulysses
I am so sorry for the victims, acid attacks can have lasting injuries.
The pictures of this guy are not very clear , but I hope he is captured and put away for the rest of his life.
shogun36
What is with all these dorks running around here, claiming to be “men” but acting like moronic teenagers?
Do they really have that much free time to do this kind of garbage?
Man, get a job, get a hobby, get a girl, or something. No one has this much free time to waste.
kiwi07
I buy sulfuric acid for hobby reasons, however due to shipping laws it can only be 10% strength; the same strength as weak car battery acid. To get stronger acids such as what this guy must have obtained in a more speciality place.
after a kid used acetone to make a crude bomb, they tried to tighten down on buying acetone, but as it is ubiquitously used for hobby and DIY uses, and whenever Japan tries to introduce bureaucracy for these things, they make it overly complicated do drop the effort a while instead of producing a workable system.
GBR48
This does not mean Japan is 'unsafe'. It is one of the safest cities on the planet. There are always some criminals/nuts, wherever you go.
This is not a reason to silence the reporting of crime. Transparency is important. You do not want to live in a world where everything is secret.
This is not a reason to avoid trains, especially in Tokyo. Safer than cars.
It is also not a reason to ban hobbyist materials.
Tokyo has CCTV everywhere. If they can catch someone who smeared poop on a back pack, they can catch this guy.
It's a nasty crime, but crime levels are low in Japan. Loads more stabbings in London and shootings in America.
Everyone have a cuppa and calm down.
Michael Machida
Amazing.
Every time a violent act is committed in Japan like this one, there is always someone who insists that Japan is a safe country.
Japan is safe, but not the safest place to live due to the fact that like this act of violence occurs almost every day be it a knife, acid, or whatever.
Japan is part of Earth and Japanese people are human and not the superior country some people deem it to be.
There is a lot of violence here too.
Practice honesty.
snowymountainhell
It reads like a targeted “hit” and the woman was collaterally injured in the melee:
“The suspect, about 175cm tall, aged 30-50, dressed in black, wearing a mask.”- “The incident occurred in a high-end residential area,”
- “The 2 victims were standing near a station elevator”
- “the suspect threw the acid as he overtook the man from the r. side; the woman slipping on the liquid, falling into it.”
- “the man's burns are severe while the woman's injury is mild.
- “the man told bystanders he could not see and the woman said the affected area felt hot,
- “the suspect fled the station.” -
Of course, ‘speculation’ but NOT “*random**”.*
snowymountainhell
The ‘circus show’ to continue to depict Japan as a ‘modern, crime-free, safe country’ continues…
Also, sadly comical is this weekly bit of additional government-mandated PR, er, ‘reporting’:
snowymountainhell
*The earlier “incident” was ***not ‘random’ either. It was **admittedly premeditated against women and the additional injured were hurt in that assault.
snowymountainhell
Aussies will NOT “whine” but may take exception that ‘acid attacks’ are more common there as someone earlier inferred. According to the following source, the U.K. had now surpassed India in these types of acid attacks:
https://www.asti.org.uk/a-worldwide-problem.html -WA4TKG
"Be Alert"...this isn't the first Chemical Attack that's taken place in Metro Tokyo...it won't be the last.
mz16
Crazies out and about these days....
Pukey2
Acid attacks are particularly cruel, and they seem to be aimed more at women, especially those who have spurned the advances of men. However, I do remember one case of a man in the UK who was allowed to be euthanized after a severe attack by his girlfriend. Very sad.
Another series of random attacks I recall were a few years ago in Hong Kong where someone would just throw acid from the top of buildings and people would get injured below on the streets. I'm not sure whether the police ever caught the scum.
OssanAmerica
"Safe" is not an absolute.
Is Japan absolutely safe? Of course not.
Is Japan relatively "safe" in comparison to many other countries? Yes.
Zaphod
Pukey2
That does not seem to be the case here. The primary target was the man, for whatever reason.
Blacklabel
man what is going on with all these attacks on trains recently?
As if trying to dodge COVID on the train and get to work on time or get home isnt enough already....
Joe Blow
Throw acid on his face and body first.
Jimizo
I read about it in the media. They didn’t do a very good job playing it down.
I think you are saying you wanted more focus on it.
igfklin
Here is a picture of the culprit.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210825/k10013221911000.html
Paawan
Japan is getting more and more unsafe… let’s just accept it !!!!
Things happen in developed countries like Japan…. no one gets to know … and if at all people get to know, they will be like…. It’s Japan.. they will fix it in no time.
C’mon !!!
nandakandamanda
The 22-year-old says he cannot see. The doctors say it will take six months to heal.
Not only is this a particularly vicious attack, but it caused collateral damage, thankfully only to one person. The perp thought about himself first, though, putting on a protective glove, but he seems not to have given a thought to others with this rather inaccurate method of attack.
The authorities need to make an example out of this guy and hope to discourage cowardly self-centered copycats.
Sandoval
This definitely looks like that the male was the target while the girl was just innocent bystander. I know it is just a speculation, but this looks like planned attack on the specific person for me unlike the attack on the Odakyu line.
Abbey
If that young man is blinded for life, when caught , I hope to see that thing given the death penalty !
WilliB
Sandoval
Nobody knows for sure yet, but yes, it does look like that.
Mark
How original, assuming someone is Japanese because they’re defending Japan and don’t use correct grammar. Yay for profiling.
Mr Kipling
There are some crimes where the punishment should fit the crime. This is a perfect example. 10 years in jail followed by a quick acid shower on release. Not nice but a suitable warning to others.
ian
Scary stuff
Strangerland
WHy would we "accept" this false fact that isn't supported by actual data, especially when the actual data shows that Japan's rate of crime is as low as its ever been?
starpunk
I remember the sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways in mid 1995. Whether this coward is involved in some kooky cult or not, I hope the law finds him soon and puts him away!
Zaphod
starpunk
This one looks completely different. I do not know why you call the criminal a "coward" or suggest he is involved in a cult.
nandakandamanda
Wanted notice has gone up nationwide. The police think they know his name and have issued three photos of him.
25-yr old, last seen at Shizuoka Station.
https://www.news24.jp/articles/2021/08/27/07930671.html?utm_source=Yahoonews&utm_medium=relatedarticles&utm_content=930618&utm_campaign=n24_acquisition
nandakandamanda
Like the Canadian Mounties, the police here will get this guy, and he knows it. It's only a matter of time now.
Zaphod
nandakandamanda
The enormous amount of CCTV cameras in Japanese cities makes the job a lot easier. They had the first camera footage of him minutes after it happened at Shirokanetakanawa, and then of course could trace his movements throughout the subway system back from there.