Tag: Akihabara

日本文が後ろに続きます。

Japan is turning into a really sick country. According to media, a 25-year-old man this afternoon hit the people walking on the streets at Akihabara with his truck, jumped out of it and stabbed the people there at random with his survival knife, causing death to as many as seven people until now. The killer was arrested on the spot, saying he was “sick of life” and wanted to kill whomever he saw.
CNN.com: At least 7 dead in Tokyo stabbing spree
Japan Probe: Stabbing rampage in Akihabara: 7 people killed

Similar attacks have happened increasingly for years. On the same day of 2001, Mamoru Takuma broke into elementary school classrooms and stabbed eight students to death in Osaka. Two months ago a young man suddenly attacked the people walking around the railroad station, killing one and injuring many. Wherever you are, you can be a victim of such kind of crimes here, because this country has plenty of such kind of “sick-of-life” young people with no hope for the future, and such people may cause such kind of stabbing sprees to strangers or kill themselves with hydrogen sulfide.

I wonder if it is the best choice or not for me to keep living in this sick country. If I were more skilled in English and business skills and I had more money, I could move to the U.S. or another better country and settle there, rather than being scared of crimes happening every day.

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秋葉原で25歳の男がトラックで通行人に突っ込み、飛び降りて無差別にサバイバルナイフで襲い、7人を死亡させたという事件が起こったそうです。犯人はその場で逮捕され、「生活に疲れた」とかのたまっているそうです。

ここ数年、似たような事件が起こってます。7年前のちょうど同じ日は、宅間守元死刑囚が大阪の小学校に押し入り、クラスにいた児童8人を刺し殺しました。2週間前には荒川沖駅前で、若い男が突然通行人を襲い、1人死亡多数負傷という事件が起こっています。こういう「人生に疲れた」系の若者がいっぱいいるので、これからどこにいてもこういう事件は起こりうるでしょう。

このまま日本に住み続けていいものかと思案しているところ。もうちょっと英語と仕事のスキルがあって、お金があれば、アメリカかどっかましな場所に移住したいものです。