Kawasaki stabbings explained

Kawasaki stabbings
Location:Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Time:7:44 a.m.
Timezone:JST
Type:Mass stabbing, double-murder, murder-suicide
Fatalities:3 (including the perpetrator)[1]
Injuries:18[2]
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Perp:Ryuichi Iwasaki[3]
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The occurred on the morning of 28 May 2019 in the Tama ward of Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, four blocks west of Noborito Station.[4] Two people were murdered,[5] and 18 others were injured after being stabbed at a city bus stop by 51-year-old Ryuichi Iwasaki (岩崎隆一 Iwasaki Ryūichi).[6] After carrying out the attack, Iwasaki committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck.[7] [5] [1]

Incident

Kawasaki city fire department said it received an emergency call at 7:44 a.m. JST,[8] and responded to an incident in which a man attacked students waiting at a bus stop with yanagi ba, long and thin knives used in Japanese cuisine to prepare sashimi and nigiri sushi, in both hands.[9] [10] The students targeted were identified by the NHK public broadcaster as all being girls.[11] A bus driver who witnessed the attack claimed that they saw the man holding two knives and he had walked towards the bus before stabbing the children. Authorities told reporters the man attacked people randomly as they lined up to enter the bus.[12]

The Kawasaki Fire Department reported that sixteen elementary school students from Caritas Elementary School, a private Catholic school,[13] and three adults were injured in the attack, separately from the suspect.[8]

Perpetrator

, a 51-year-old man suspected of carrying out the attack, was believed to be a resident of Kawasaki's Asao ward.[14] [15] He was found lying on the ground of the scene, bleeding from a self-inflicted stab wound to the neck. The two 30cm (10inches) bloodied sashimi knives were found nearby, and two more knives, a 25cm (10inches) all-purpose knife and a 20cm (10inches) sashimi bōchō were found in a backpack that had been in his possession and dropped at a nearby FamilyMart.[16] The suspect was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.[14] [17]

Iwasaki was an unemployed hikikomori, which is someone who takes withdrawing from society to an extreme. He was living in his elderly uncle's home. Before the incident, he had a dispute with his neighbors but would not talk with his uncle about what had happened.[18]

Victims

The deceased were identified as, an 11-year-old student, and, a 39-year-old Foreign Ministry employee who worked primarily as a diplomat to Myanmar.[19] [20] [21]

They were declared dead at . Some survivors were also treated at this hospital, as well at St. Marianna University School of Medicine,, and .[14]

Related incidents

Several days after the incident, former MAFF Vice Minister Hideaki Kumazawa killed his hikikomori son, Eiichiro, fearing that he would commit similar crimes to those of which Iwasaki committed, as he had been violent towards his family members as well as being described as reclusive.[22] [23] Kumazawa would be sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2021.[24]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Child among three dead in Japan knife attack . 28 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019.
  2. News: 3万円近い高額の包丁を購入か 川崎20人殺傷事件. テレ朝news. tv asahi. ANN. 2019-05-31. 2019-06-04. ja. https://web.archive.org/web/20190602112121/https://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_society/articles/000156058.html. 2019-06-02. dead.
  3. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/29/national/crime-legal/rarely-noticed-neighbors-kawasaki-man-behind-mass-stabbing-said-short-fuse/#.XO4FFC2B0_U The Japan Times
  4. Web site: 15 stabbed in Kawasaki City . . en . 28 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190528001913/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190528_10/ . 28 May 2019 . dead .
  5. Web site: Two feared dead, 17 hurt after Japan mass stabbing . . en. 28 May 2019.
  6. News: 川崎殺傷１週間、発生時刻に多くの人が冥福祈る. 読売新聞オンライン. The Yomiuri Shimbun. 2019-06-04. 2019-06-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20190604041245/https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20190604-OYT1T50172/. 2019-06-04. ja. dead.
  7. News: Thirteen schoolgirls among those wounded in Japan stabbing: Kyodo . 28 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019 . en.
  8. News: Wakatsuki . Yoko . Ogura . Junko . 28 May 2019 . Two killed including girl, 12, in Japan stabbing spree . . 28 May 2019.
  9. News: Kawasaki stabbing rampage leaves three dead, including schoolgirl and suspect; 16 injured . 28 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019 . en-US . 0447-5763.
  10. Web site: 包丁４本所持、計画的か＝小学生ら１９人刺される－２人死亡、確保の男も・川崎. ja. Jiji Press. 28 May 2019. 1 June 2019. 2 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200502061258/https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2019052800747&g=soc. dead.
  11. News: 16 People, Including 13 Children, Stabbed in Japan Knife Attack . Rich . Motoko . Ueno . Hisako . 27 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019 . en-US . 0362-4331.
  12. News: Japan stabbing: Schoolchildren, adults stabbed in Kawasaki City attack . Yamaguchi . Mari . 27 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019 . en-NZ . 1170-0777.
  13. Knife Attack in Japan Leaves One Dead, 15 Wounded . Leung . Hillary . 27 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019.
  14. News: Stabbing spree near Tokyo leaves 2 victims and suspect dead, 14 injured. 2019-05-28. Mainichi Daily News. 2019-05-28. en.
  15. Web site: 川崎"通り魔事件"岩崎容疑者の同級生が語る素顔「おとなしいが、切れると豹変する奴」. AERA dot. May 28, 2019. April 2, 2023. Mugi. Ogata. japanese.
  16. Web site: 包丁４本、事前に購入か＝動機示す品未発見－ポケットに１０万円・川崎襲撃. ja. Jiji Press. 30 May 2019. 1 June 2019. 3 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200503095943/https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2019053000154&g=soc. dead.
  17. News: Japan mass stabbing: schoolgirl killed and 16 injured in attack in Kawasaki . McCurry . Justin . 28 May 2019 . . 28 May 2019 . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  18. Web site: 川崎で児童ら刺される. Jiji Press. ja. May 2019. 1 June 2019.
  19. Web site: Girl, man die after knife attack in Kawasaki; suspect kills self：The Asahi Shimbun. The Asahi Shimbun. en. 28 May 2019. 31 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200131042850/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201905280019.html. dead.
  20. Web site: 自民・岸田氏「痛恨の極み」 亡くなった小山さん悼む. The Asahi Shimbun. ja. 29 May 2019. 1 June 2019.
  21. Web site: 「最愛の娘を奪われ、深い悲しみに」 女児遺族コメント全文 川崎殺傷. May 29, 2019. April 2, 2023. The Sankei News. japanese.
  22. Web site: Yamada . Nobufumi . 2019-06-03 . Ex-top official says he killed son to prevent attack against children . https://web.archive.org/web/20220709202108/https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13062428 . 2022-07-09 . 2023-12-16 . . en.
  23. Web site: 2020-10-20 . Ex-elite bureaucrat accused of murdering son pleads not guilty . https://web.archive.org/web/20211016113048/https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/10/722eae444c7f-ex-elite-bureaucrat-accused-of-murdering-son-pleads-not-guilty.html . 2021-10-16 . 2023-12-16 . Kyodo News+.
  24. Web site: 2021-02-03 . Six-year prison term upheld for ex-top Japanese bureaucrat over murder of son . https://web.archive.org/web/20210203062014/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/03/national/crime-legal/hideaki-kumazawa-prison-term-upheld/ . 2021-02-03 . 2023-12-16 . . en.

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