After the dreadful knife attack in Akihabara last week, it was discovered that the killer had announced his intent on an internet message board, but his threat was not taken seriously.
Well anything in that vein is being taken very seriously now. On Monday, police made two unconnected arrests of idiots posting online death threats.
Yo Suzuki, 29, of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, was arrested after posting his intent to “to unleash an attack to ‘kill 100 people’ on the streets of Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district” on the 2-Channel bulletin board.
“I saw the TV coverage of the case in Akihabara and thought I’d create a bit of a stir,” Suzuki told the police, referring to the June 8 case where a random killer’s rampage on the Akihabara district of Tokyo claimed seven lives.
“I did it half as a joke,” he said.
Meanwhile in Fukuoka, a 17-year-old girl was arrested after using the same message board as Akihabara killer Tomohiro Kato, to threaten -
I intend to carry out a massacre at a station in Kyushu which will go down in history. I’m the same as Kato. I feel sympathy for him. I will be executed because I will kill more people than he did.
She too later claimed, “I was just joking. I didn’t imagine it would turn into such a big deal.” Well you got that wrong then didn’t you.
a high-end Japanese spa in midtown, has just introduced a new “Geisha Facial,” which promises to cleanse, brighten, and exfoliate a patron’s face—thanks to a secret ingredient: bird poop. For centuries in Japan, both Kabuki actors and geishas used uguisu no fun, or nightingale droppings, to clean off their thick white makeup and soothe their faces; apparently, guanine, found in the droppings, helped their complexions.
Spam emailers have discovered that eating seaweed can miraculously rid women between the ages of 25 and 54 of the roll of fat around their middlesection.
Just take a couple of sea-weed tablets every day, and perhaps you too will see your weight plummet, so you too can join the ranks of women who enjoy the lowest rate of obesity in the world!
Personally, I’ll stick to weekly misoshiru and some nice sunomono with wakame.
He’s the guy we wrote about here who claims to be hooked up with an international team of ninja assasins who are just waiting for the word to start taking out heads of state and save the world by making Fulford the Minister of Finance of Japan so he can start handing out Japan’s monetary reserves and create heaven on Earth, and, and, and. . . Well, you get the picture.
Anyway, Fulford is reporting that assasinations currently are on hold, no doubt much to the relief of dastardly politicos the world over.
[Y]ou will notice that Asian countries have stopped buying US government bonds. The US secret government has retaliated by artificially raising food and oil prices.
We are in the middle of World War 3. The US and Israel have been taken over by Nazis and the rest of the world is trying to take them down.
The reason the society has not started assassinations yet is that the Nazis in the Bush/Clinton administration want any excuse to start all out world war. However, if starvation begins in earnest, there will be assassinations.
Many have used it. Some have got away with it. I remember kids at school busting out the “My grandmother died” excuse to explain absences. It never occurred to me they might be lying until it emerged that one lad experienced the loss of three grandmothers in quick succession.
An Osaka tax inspector has resigned after apparently claiming compassionate leave for deaths in his family on 11 occasions, the Mainichi reports.
Each time, he stayed home in order to cure his backache. “It was too much hassle to get a medical certificate for sick leave,” he was quoted as telling his bosses.
His bosses discovered the scam when he told them in September last year that his grandmother’s funeral was being held at a funeral hall, which was found not to exist.
On investigation, his bosses discovered 10 more false claims between 2004 and 2007, in addition to which, “the man also went home on 11 other occasions in 2006 and 2007 by faking business trips.”
CNN.com/Asia has a report claiming that business women in Japan are paying up to $50,000 a night to spend time with hosts that CNN referst to as “geisha guys.”
TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — At first glance, the man and woman at the nightclub look like any other couple on a date. He flirts and pours champagne. She looks at him and laughs.
Businesswomen in Japan pay up to $50,000 a night for male companionship from “hosts” like Yunosuke.
This isn’t a date, though. It’s business.
The woman, a successful executive, has joined a growing number of professional women in Japan in forking out from $1,000 to $50,000 a night for male companionship.
5 million yen per night for male companionship?
I guess it must be true. . . CNN wouldn’t post a report that is a load of BS, would it?
On February 6, Topps released a card for a Japanese high school pitcher named Kazuo “The Uzi” Uzuki, who boasted some pretty amazing stats.
Although listed at only 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds (1.8 meters and 75 kilograms), “The Uzi” was said to be known for his devastating 104 mph (167 kph) fastball and was on his way to becoming the first Japan-based high-schooler to jump straight to professional baseball in America.
The card of the fictitious Uzuki was included in every 72 packs of cards.
JAPUNDIT’s good friend Danny Bloom wrote in to alert us to a gaijin resident of a Japan named Benjamin Fulford.
The son of a Canadian diplomat, Benjamin Fulford rebelled against his upbringing and at the age of 17 made his way to the Amazon to live with a native tribe. Wanting to better understand Western society, he spent time in a community in Argentina before attending university in Japan.
Principled, brave, and still a diehard idealist, he resigned as Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief of Forbes Magazine after investigating a scandal the editor refused to report. As he researched global affairs further, he uncovered the complex web of global financial control at the hands of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds - and also the reality of racially targeted bioweapons such as SARS.
It was these plans for depopulation that upset some powerful factions in Japan, Taiwan and China. After being approached by a real-life Ninja, matters came to a head in 2007 when Fulford became the first Westerner for 500 years to be admitted into the Eastern Secret Societies, a group with 6 million members. As their spokesman, he delivered a simple message to the Illuminati:
Recognize that your time is over, step down without a fight, and allow the world to thrive - or face the consequences from 100,000 professional assassins.
Armed with an optimistic vision, Fulford is prepared to be the next Finance Minister of Japan. His plans to spend Japan’s $5 trillion of foreign reserves to end world poverty are inspiring as practical steps to repair generations of damage done by a ruthless ruling elite. This is a man with a deep understanding of both East and West, a global economic historian who thinks way outside of the box, a lover of peace unafraid to speak warrior words.
Now, if you think THAT was weird, check out the interviews that Fulford taped for Project Camelot.
A strange story from Jaipur, India, where a Japanese tourist “had registered a complaint with the police alleging she was raped by the employees of the hotel last night”.
In an intriguing turn of events, a Japanese on Monday complained to the police of her rape in a hotel by its staff but withdrew the charge within hours saying the term ‘rape’ was used for use of force for taking away her mobile phone and not for sexual assault.
The woman explained later “The word rape used by me in the complaint is meant as application of force for taking away my mobile phone.” I need to buy me a new dictionary, as it seems mine is hopelessly out of date.
“We took a particularly detailed look at cases in which patients were hospitalized and have concluded that no one else other than the 10 people suffered from organophosphate poisoning,” the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced.
Authorities have not been able to determine how the toxic organophosphate insecticide methamidophos made its way into the packages of dumplings consumed by the 10 people.
Chinese officials say they have been unable to find any evidence of tampering at the factory that produced the dumplings.
Tetsuya Shiroo, the gangster who gunned down Nagasaki mayor Iccho Ito last April with two shots in the back used the first day of his trial to. . . apologize to the dead mayor.
“I apologize to Mr. Iccho Ito and his family from the bottom of my heart,” he said as he read a statement on the first day of his trial at the Nagasaki District Court.
“Every day, I pray that Mr. Ito rests in peace,” he said in his first public remarks since the crime.
Though Shiroo has admitted to killing the mayor, his lawyers are expected to claim the crime was not premeditated. Lack of premeditation and a show of contrition can go a long way towards lightening the sentence once receives for murder in Japan.
His defense team plans to argue that he carried a hand gun to threaten the mayor, not to use it, but then impulsively shot him as Ito headed to his campaign office in front of the main train station.
Here’s hoping that no one falls for this blatant attempt to play the system. . . Based on past experience, however, I’ll bet everyone does.
Tetsuya Shiroo, the gangster who gunned down Nagasaki mayor Iccho Ito last April with two shots in the back