Mirai Hayashi comments

Police said that Ichikawa has remained silent since his arrest.

As with most perps in Japan, I guess he had no recollection of doing it.

I don't know what these "red tickets" are but the j-police really need to start fining reckless cyclist who don't follow basic traffic rules. And not just in Tokyo, this needs to happen everywhere.

I don't know how many times I nearly hit a cyclist or pedestrian for running red lights or stops signs, or riding on the wrong side of the road. But what really irrigates me to no end are mothers who carry their family on a single bike (one child on the back, one child on the front, and another baby strapped to the mother's chest or back. One wrong move, and you can kill an entire family.

motive?

how come he was in possession of a length of cord long enough and strong enough....

totally what I was thinking!! I smell a fish here. I think this guy was given the cord. Perhaps he was someone who knew something about a prominent figure. Suicide or strangulation??

Ishigami has denied the charge, claiming he has no recollection of the incident.

Only in Japan of course!

These things are a menace! Traffic is bad enough without having to contend with these things in front of you causing traffic jams

Just another way to make CEOs richer (by not paying people)

Victmless crime! Let 'em go! Let 'em go!

So many things wrong with their relationship..

One of the many issues with Japanese language in general

What a self entitled a$$ wipe! And I can't believe there are people who have sympathy for this assassin!

Wearing pants and a T-shirt, which had blood on it, the girl "had black hair and looked young," the 28-year-old man said.

A 15 year year old Japanese girl who "had black hair and looked young"? You don't say!

Sorry but I thought this sentence sounded very odd. LOL

@Awa no Gaijin

Better late than never !

I disagree. This so reactive. Abe had virtually no protection. Even after the first shot, no one did anything. There was a good 2 to 3 seconds between shots which is enough for a trained bodyguard to jump on that fool and wrestle him down before he could take another shot.

All of these protocols should have been in place a very long time ago, and the police and the SS assigned to protecting the former PM, should have better trained and equipped. For them to finally figure out that they have a serious security breach after someone like Abe is assassinated is too little way too late.

I originally thought this was an old people thing, but I honestly don't understand how anyone can mistake the gas and brake pedals. . I drive both auto and manual transmission cars, and I hardly ever use the gas pedal when backing out of the space. In most cars, the engine speed at idle is more than enough to back the car out of a space. And in a manual car, I ride the hell out of the clutch and use the gas pedal very conservatively.

Even if you mistake the gas and brake (again, I don't see how), why gun the gas???

allegedly breaking into a post office in April and stealing a cash machine containing around 10.6 million yen in cash.

Why was there so much cash in the ATM, especially if the PO is closed?

Beating up on a minor and running away... keep it classy dude!

@WA4TKG

Although I don’t like tobacco or cigars, does an E Cigarette even produce any exhaust, so to speak?

Whether it produces "exhaust" or not is not the point here. There is no smoking on the trains PERIOD. No one should be subjected to have breathe in whatever is contained in those e-cigarattes. Also, keep in mind that we're still in a pandemic here, and cases are on uptick again, so he should keep that hole on his face covered up so he doesn't spread diseases.

Just my guess, but I think they are looking for more evidence that this was a premeditated and planned attack by person of sound my mind, so that he does not try to slimy out on an insanity defense. His statement to the press:

Yamagami allegedly said in the letter that he no longer had capacity to think about political consequences Abe's death may cause,

kind of proves this. By writing this letter, he was already setting up an insanity defense. Also, the fact that he used his SDF training to construct a weapon capable of killing someone also shows that this was well planned attack, rather than a mad man who acted out of emotion and anger.

@qazwsx

Unfortunately there are always going to be angry disturbed individuals in any country, and in this case one of them seems to have made a homemade gun from the Internet I suppose.

You are making too many assumptions about the shooter. We have no idea if this shooting was politically motivated. For all we know, he may be just some crazed AKB48 fan trying to get the attention of some teeny bopper member of the group.

I would assume that it wouldn't be too difficult to make shotguns, so I hope there aren't going to be copycat shootings.

Shotgun? That thing sounded like a cannon!

@Yrral

Newsweek,say local authorities say gravely ill, meaning not good

It would also mean that he is alive...which I would think is good news

I was just thinking this morning, I wonder who or what city is going to be the next victim of gun violence. Who could have predicted that this would hit so close to home

CNN is reporting that Abe was conscious when he was being taken away. I sincerely hope he's okay

This opens the doors for a lot of fraudulent activities. I can easily pretend to be company X, or in this case NHK, and print invoices notifying the residents that they are delinquent on their bill, and to wire money to my account or risk losing service.

It looks like a big boobie

91 yo, why is he driving?

selfish twat should be fined 10 times that amount!

A man in his 40s fractured his skull when he fell from the roof of a garage in Yufu

I seriously don't know the reason for people wanting to climb up on their roofs during a typhoon...really...please use your common sense people!!

driving a giant drone quad copter....what could go wrong??

I don't why JT thinks a picture of animal cruelty and abuse is appropriate to post! Shame on you!