Stabbing attack in Japan

Thrashssacre

13 out of the 19 victims are young children. I know Japan is considered a pretty safe and nice country but every so often they produce attacks and crimes that are just psychotic.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/28/japan-mass-stabbing-children-among-injured-in-attack-kawasaki

Caybar

It's really Terrible and it's times like this when I'm happy Japan still has the death penalty, it's just a pitty the attacker didn't survive.

It got me thinking though and this is a bit dark, is their any equivalent event in recent Irish history? Where a psycho has specifically targeted children in an act of mass murder.

Phileas Frog

Caybar wrote: »

It's really Terrible and it's times like this when I'm happy Japan still has the death penalty, it's just a pitty the attacker didn't survive.

It got me thinking though and this is a bit dark, is their any equivalent event in recent Irish history? Where a psycho has specifically targeted children in an act of mass murder.

The nuns?

Canis Lupus

Caybar wrote: »

It's really Terrible and it's times like this when I'm happy Japan still has the death penalty, it's just a pitty the attacker didn't survive.
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It's a pity he didn't survive so he could be executed?

Yurt2

Not to be too cliched about it, but Japan can be an odd old place. On the surface, there is very high levels of social cohesion and everyone seems to be pulling in the same direction. Beneath that though, there is a lot of unease and interpersonal relations are bizarrely complex and nuanced. If you ever talk to Japanese people who have left the country for good, they often speak of how suffocating the culture is and are glad of the liberties that European cultures afford them.

These mad outbursts of violence happen every now and then. After the Quake, a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami set after the earthquake in Kobe in 1995 is worth a read. His book Underground is about the bizarre Aum Shinrikyo death-cult that perpetrated the Tokyo gas attacks.

Having said that, it's a large country, so these weird fissures are bound to happen every now and again.

Wanderer78

Caybar wrote:

It's really Terrible and it's times like this when I'm happy Japan still has the death penalty, it's just a pitty the attacker didn't survive.

Thankfully the death penalty does a great job of preventing such serious crimes.

Rip, dreadful tragedy

dodderangler

Caybar wrote: »

It's really Terrible and it's times like this when I'm happy Japan still has the death penalty, it's just a pitty the attacker didn't survive.

It got me thinking though and this is a bit dark, is their any equivalent event in recent Irish history? Where a psycho has specifically targeted children in an act of mass murder.

The topic is Japan and an attack in japan.
Why is there always one person in these feckin threads that turns it on Ireland?
If you want a question like that answered why don’t you start a thread about it then? Instead of trying to bring focus off it!