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A man who went to Akihabara to kill people drove into shoppers with a truck and went on a stabbing spree, killing at least seven people and wounding ten others, police said.
The attack occurred around twelve thirty on Sunday in one of the busiest areas of Tokyo. The massacre is the worst killing spree in recent years and came on the anniversary of a 2001 school slayings in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. Police have arrested Tomohiro Kato a 25 year old resident of Shizuoka prefecture in the Akihabara massacre. He is currently being held at the Manseibashi Police Station. The man apparrently claimed to be part of a criminal gang and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department quoted Kato as saying he was tired of life and he went to Akihabara to kill people. The fatalities were six men and one woman. It is unclear whether the victims were killed by stabbing or by being hit by the truck.
Meanwhile in Akihabara people gathered in the evening to offer tributes to the victims in front of Sofmap. They placed beverages and flowers at the scene of the slayings as a memorial to the victims.
Fallout from the massacre is spreading rapidly among people who frequent Akihabara. "This is a horrible tragedy," said a frequent visitor to Akihabara who did not want to be identified. "I love Akiba, but the image of Akiba-kei will suffer because of this. I plan to come back here but I will be more cautious from now on".
According to the Japan Times there were 68 acts of random violence that resulted in serious injuries or death from 1990 to 2007. In January this year a sixteen year old boy attacked five people with kitchen knives in Tokyo's Shinagawa ward. In March, eight people were injured and one was killed when a man went on a stabbing spree at a shopping mall in Ibaraki prefecture.
The otaku geek culture associated with Akihabara was long overshadowed by the Miyazaki Incident, in which anime fan Tsutomu Miyazaki kidnapped and killed four girls. The 1989 incident linked otaku culture with violent antisocial behavior in the mind of the public in Japan.
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