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Posted by Chris Salzburg to Global Voices Online (Note: the translation in this post was a collaborative effort by blogger and translator nofrills, blogger and GV author Taku Nakajima, user Saifis, and GV editor Chris Salzberg) When Tomohiro Kato killed 7 people and injured many more in Tokyo's Akihabara district last month, the details of his life became the talk not only of the mainstream media world,...
When Tomohiro Kato killed 7 people and injured many more in Tokyo's Akihabara district last month, the details of his life became the talk of the Japanese blogging world. Among these conversations, the murders sparked a huge number of conversations on the country's temp worker industry, as Kato himself worked as a temp worker at a factory under Toyota. No single blog entry however attracted as much...
Just hours ago, a man stabbed a police officer in Akihabara during a random bag check. This comes in the wake of the tragedy earlier this month when Tomohiro Kato (pictured) drove through Akihabara...
Police said Wednesday they are preparing to serve Tomohiro Kato with an arrest warrant for murdering seven people on the streets of Tokyo's Akihabara district on June 8. The warrant will be served this week at the earliest Read the full story
Tomohiro Kato, 25, said by police say to have confessed to a murderous rampage on Sunday, killing seven people, “planned and executed the attack while enmeshed in Japan's near-ubiquitous matrix of surveillance cameras and high-speed wireless networks,” says the Washington (...)
The media continues to investigate possible reasons why Tomohiro Kato went on a knife rampage in Akihabara, and one tabloid is focusing on his strict mother: “We had an excess of love from our mother, who believed good education leads to a good future,” his younger brother told the Shukan Gendai weekly. Speaking about the family and [...]
TOKYO, June 13 — Tomohiro Kato, who police say has confessed to a stabbing rampage on Sunday that killed seven people, planned and executed the attack while enmeshed in Japan’s near-ubiquitous matrix of surveillance cameras and high-speed wireless networks. Read the full story
TOKYO, June 13 -- Tomohiro Kato, who police say has confessed to a stabbing rampage on Sunday that killed seven people, planned and executed the attack while enmeshed in Japan's near-ubiquitous matrix of surveillance cameras and high-speed wireless networks.
A post by blogger boiledema [ja], offering an alternative perspective on the background of Tomohiro Kato, offender in Sunday's Akiba massacre, has drawn a huge reaction, with over 1200 bookmarks [ja] on Hatena. boiledema suggests that Toyota's system of Kanban production is being applied to human beings, through unstable short-term employment, leading to extreme isolation. [...]
Filed under: News The Associated Press is reporting that Konami is canceling its Metal Gear Solid 4 launch events after a deadly stabbing rampage. Tomohiro Kato, a 25-year-old factory worker, carried two knives on him when he was arrested. Kato used one knife to stab more than dozen people in Tokyo's Akihabara district, a popular destination for manga, anime and video games. Kato began his rampage...
Filed under: Culture , Sony PlayStation 3 , Business Konami has canceled its three Tokyo launch event planned for Metal Gear Solid 4 following the tragic events in the tech-savvy Akihabara district yesterday when 25-year old Tomohiro Kato killed four people and injured ten more (via AP ). One of the events was to be in Akihabara. Konami cited "safety of participants in mind" as its reason for the...
Last Sunday, before Tomohiro Kato drove his truck into a crowd of people in the Akihabara district in Tokyo, killing seven, he updated his blog 16 times.…
The past few nights had been a non-stop coverage of the Akihabara Massacre and the killer, Tomohiro Kato. Not exactly the most uplifting stuff for a guy like me to watch when sick. There was a TV interview with the parents of the killer last night. Their faces were obscured to protect their identities, only the father spoke during the 4-minute interview, the mother stood behind him, sobbing quietly,...
Mick (via whom) gives an appropriate short answer - 'speak for yourself' - to this piece by Brian Masters. Masters is claiming that anyone could turn into a murderer like Tomohiro Kato. A longer answer might point, first, to the...
