{"id":12869,"date":"2008-06-09T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2008-06-10T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T14:05:18","slug":"massacre-in-akihabara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/massacre-in-akihabara\/","title":{"rendered":"Massacre in Akihabara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 12:35 PM on Sunday, June 8th, 25 year old Tomohiro Kato allegedly intentionally drove a two-ton rental truck into the crowded pedestrian intersection of Chuo and Kanda Myojin Streets in Tokyo&#8217;s Akihabara district, striking numerous pedestrians. Kato then allegedly exited the vehicle and proceeded to stab several people with a knife. 17 people were reportedly injured and 7 have been confirmed killed. Kato was found and arrested by police shortly after the event.<\/p>\n<p>Kato reportedly announced his homicidal plans on a mobile phone bulletin board about seven hours prior to the incident. CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/06\/08\/japan.stabbing.spree\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Kato claimed to be tired of living and just wanted to commit random violence.<\/p>\n<p>The staff of AnimeNation are horrified by this senseless action and extend our most sincere and heartfelt condolences to everyone affected by this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2008-06-08\/over-13-stabbed-2-confirmed-dead-in-tokyo-akihabara\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 12:35 PM on Sunday, June 8th, 25 year old Tomohiro Kato allegedly intentionally drove a two-ton rental truck into the crowded pedestrian intersection of Chuo and Kanda Myojin Streets in Tokyo&#8217;s Akihabara district, striking numerous pedestrians. Kato then allegedly exited the vehicle and proceeded to stab several people with a knife. 17 people were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}