{"id":110495,"date":"2019-05-29T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=110495"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:55:36","slug":"knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" title=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/japanese-police.jpg\" alt=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\" class=\"wp-image-110496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/japanese-police.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/japanese-police-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/japanese-police-400x240.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/japanese-police-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><em>Japanese police say the motive of the attacker is still unknown. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people are dead and sixteen are wounded after a man armed with two knives attacked a group of schoolgirls as they were boarding a bus in Kawasaki, Japan, officials told the media yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dead include an 11-year-old girl and a 39-year-old man.\nFifteen of the 16 people wounded were children, and three of them are battling\nlife-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I heard a scream, so I stopped and turned around to see what happened. It was not a normal tone of voice,&#8221; one witness, Yasuko Atsukata, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/2-dead-including-child-in-stabbing-attack-in-japan\/ar-AAC0Afy\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan\" title=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Associated Press<\/a>. After watching two people fall to the ground, she recalls that &#8220;the color of their white shirts turned red after they collapsed, then I understood they got stabbed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The motives of the 51-year-old attacker aren\u2019t known, but\nwitnesses say he ran through the crowd of children, slashing as he went. He\nscreamed, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you!\u201d as he fled the scene, and police found him\nnot far away with a self-inflicted slash to the neck. He died at a hospital\nlater that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/anti-gunners-call-gun-control-following-ohio-state-knife-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan\" title=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\">EPIC FAIL: Anti-Gunners Call for Gun Control During Ohio State Knife Attack<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents were surprised to learn about the attack, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/japan-stabbing-schoolchildren.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan\" title=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a> reports that Japanese parents often allow their young children to travel to school unattended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a very safe neighborhood,\u201d Toki Kudo, the owner of\na Century 21 real estate office not far from where the stabbings took place,\ntold the Times. \u201cI was born and raised in this town, and I have never heard of\nany crime like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he felt outraged\nwhen he heard about the incident and vowed to take steps to keep Japanese\nschoolchildren safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was an extremely harrowing incident in which many\nsmall children were victimized, and I feel strong resentment,&#8221; Abe said as\nhe was hosting U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s four-day state visit ending\nTuesday. &#8220;I will take all possible measures to protect the safety of\nchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan enjoys relatively low rates of violent crime, but the\ncountry\u2019s draconian gun control laws haven\u2019t stopped mass murders from taking\nplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/cutting-distance-tueller-drill\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan\" title=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\">The Distance Your Holstered Gun Is Useless Against A Knife-Wielding Attacker<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, a former employee at a home for the disabled killed 19 and injured more than 20 others with a bag of knives in the worst mass killing in Japan since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2008, seven people were killed by a man who slammed a\ntruck into a crowd of people in central Tokyo&#8217;s Akihabara electronics district\nand then stabbed passers-by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2001, a man burst into an elementary school in Osaka and\nkilled eight children with a kitchen knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blades of all kinds are controlled in Japan by the Swords and Firearms Possession Control Law of 1958, which was amended most recently in 2018, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoweekender.com\/2018\/12\/cutting-chase-knife-laws-work-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"knife-wielding-manic-kills-japan\" title=\"Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Tokyo Weekender<\/a>. Owning a knife with a fixed blade longer than 15cm requires permission from the prefectural public safety commission, but that knife can only be kept in the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pocket knives are legal to carry as long as the blade is shorter than 6cm. Anything between 6cm and 8cm requires permission from the prefectural public safety commission, and blades exceeding 8cm are banned outright. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead and sixteen are wounded after a man armed with two knives attacked a group of schoolgirls as they were boarding a bus in Kawasaki, Japan, officials told the media yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":110496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,593,240],"tags":[132,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-110495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knife-Wielding Manic Kills Two, Wounds 16 in Japan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The man ran through a crowd of schoolgirls, slashing with two large knives. 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