Japan -19, dead, 20 wounded in knife attack, Sagamihara, 25 July 2016

[GeeEm]

July 26, 2016
6:51 am

The Latest: Japan Attack Victims Included 10 Women, 9 Men

A fire department official in the Japanese city where a knife attack at a facility for the mentally disabled left 19 people dead says the victims included 10 women and nine men.

Sagamihara fire department official Kunio Takano says the youngest victim was 19 and the oldest was 70, both women. Other details were not available.

A 26-year-old man turned himself in about two hours after Tuesday's attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-en residential facility in Sagamihara, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo.


http://abcnews.go.com/International...-allegedly-shows-killing-plan-letter-40880382

 

[KaaBoom]

This was very preventable. Anybody who publicly threatens to commit mass murder should be kept locked up for a very long time, not weeks or months. They should only be released after mental health professionals are 100% confident that the person no longer poses a threat to society. Some people are just too dangerous to being walking free. IMHO.

UPDATE: Suspect threatened mass killings in letter

According to the city government of Sagamihara, where Uematsu’s house is located, he told other staffers of Tsukui Yamayurien on Feb. 18 this year, “I will undertake the mass murder of heavily disabled people at any time if I receive an order from the central government.”

On Feb. 19, the Tsukui Police Station, which had been notified about the threat from the facility, questioned Uematsu. At that time, he made the same threat.

Police reported the case to the Sagamihara city government on the basis of the Mental Health Law. The city government forced Uematsu to submit to mandatory hospitalization after undergoing a medical examination.

On Feb. 20, the hospital detected the presence of marijuana in Uematsu's blood and urine tests.

The hospital discharged Uematsu on March 2, saying that his symptoms had eased. At that time, he submitted a report to the hospital, which said, “I will live with my family after leaving the hospital."

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607260019.html

 

[KaaBoom]

His letter to the government is pretty scary. I really don’t understand why they would let this guy out of the mental hospital, after writing something like this.

Dear Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima,

Thank you very much for reading this letter. I can wipe out a total of 470 disabled individuals.

I am fully aware that my remark is eccentric. However, thinking about the tired faces of guardians, the dull eyes of caregivers working at the facility, I am not able to contain myself, and so I decided to take action today for the sake of Japan and the world.

My reasoning is that I may be able to revitalize the world economy and I thought it may be possible to prevent World War III.

I envision a world where a person with multiple disabilities can be euthanized, with an agreement from the guardians, when it is difficult for the person to carry out household and social activities.

I believe there is still no answer about the way of life for individuals with multiple disabilities. The disabled can only create misery.

I think now is the time to carry out a revolution and to make the inevitable but tough decision for the sake of all mankind. Let Japan take the first big step.

Would Mr. Tadamori Oshima, who bears the world, use his power to make the world proceed in a better direction?

I sincerely hope you would deliver this message to Mr. Shinzo Abe.

This is the answer I reached after serious thinking about what I can do for humankind.

Dear Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima, would you lend your power for the sake of dear Japan and all humankind?

Please give this full consideration.

Satoshi Uematsu

The Plot

It will be carried out during the night shift, when staffing is low.

The target will be two facilities where many multiply disabled people reside.

Staff on guard will be strapped with cable so they can't move and can't make contact with anyone outside.

The act will be carried out speedily, and definitely without harming the staff.

After wiping out the 260 people in two facilities, I will turn myself in.

In carrying out the act, I have several requests.

After my arrest, my incarceration should be up to two years, and please let me lead a free life afterward.

Innocence on grounds of insanity.

A new name (Takashi Iguro), government registration and documents such as a driver's license needed for everyday life.

A disguise for regular society through plastic surgery.

Financial aid of 500 million yen ($5 million).

I would like these conditions to be promised.

If you can make your decision, I will carry it out at any time.

Please consider this fully for the sake of Japan and world peace.

I hope with all my heart that this can be discussed with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, although I am sorry to trouble him in an unimaginably busy schedule.

Satoshi Uematsu

(address, telephone number)

Worker at the Kanagawa Kyodokai

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607260083.html

 

[wendiesan]

His letter to the government is pretty scary. I really don’t understand why they would let this guy out of the mental hospital, after writing something like this.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607260083.html

I agree. When I read the letter, I felt that this man was in desperate need of treatment, and confinement, in a setting that protected others from him.

 

[HMSHood]

His letter to the government is pretty scary. I really don’t understand why they would let this guy out of the mental hospital, after writing something like this.



http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607260083.html

That is a minefield of red flags!

I can see Eric Harris and Elliot Rodger in Satoshi Uematsu.

Eric Harris: The Search for Justification
https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/harris_search_for_justification_1.3.pdf

Elliot Rodger: An Analysis
https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/rodger_analysis_2.0.pdf

Wound Collectors
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201304/wound-collectors

On Wound Collectors
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201509/wound-collectors

The Dangerous Injustice Collector: Behaviors of Someone Who Never Forgets, Never Forgives, Never Lets Go, and Strikes Back!
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/vio.2014.1509

Psychology of Terrorism - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208552.PDF

Despite volatility, on-air rampage difficult to predict
http://www.pontiacdailyleader.com/article/ZZ/20150828/NEWS/308289904

 

[GeeEm]

July 27, 2016
1:01 EDT

Japan knife attack: Suspect wrote of wanting to kill disabled people


Uematsu turned himself in at a local police station around an hour after the attack began, carrying a bloodstained knife and cloth, officials said.

In a letter he wrote several months before the incident, seen by CNN, he said he had "the ability to kill 470 disabled people."

"I am aware that this is an outrageous thing to say," he wrote, adding that he dreamed "of a world where disabled people with severe difficulties socializing as well as severe difficulties at home are allowed to be peacefully euthanized."

Japanese national broadcaster reported that he had been committed to an institution earlier this year to prevent him from "harming others" following the submission of the letter. He had resigned from his job when he was committed but was discharged in March.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...a/japan-knife-attack/index.html?client=safari

 

[KaaBoom]

Suspect made light of people with disabilities from the outset


On Feb. 15, he hand-delivered a letter to the official residence of the Lower House speaker in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward in which he announced his intention to attack facilities for disabled people and kill 260 residents.

Alarmed at his disturbing behavior, staff members of the facility conducted an interview with Uematsu on Feb. 19. During the session, he blurted out: “Disabled people make people around them unhappy. It is better for them not to exist (in this world).”

One of the staff members admonished him, saying, “That is the same way of thinking as the Nazis.” But Uematsu shot back, “My way of thinking is not wrong” and submitted a letter of resignation.

He was involuntarily hospitalized immediately afterward, and discharged on March 2.
Later that day, he was seen near the home for disabled people.

At the advice of the Tsukui Police Station, the facility installed 16 additional security cameras.

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607280067.html

 

[HMSHood]

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607280067.html

I can see Eric Harris and Elliot Rodger in Satoshi Uematsu.

 

[Legally Bland]

The Yokohama District Court on Monday ordered him to death by hanging.

Uematsu previously said he did not plan to appeal against any verdict or sentence.

During the trial earlier this year, the former employee of the Sagamihara care home did not dispute that he stabbed his victims.

[...]

The attack has also raised the issue of how disabled people are treated in Japan.

The identities of most of those killed have not been revealed by their families, reportedly because they do not want to reveal they had a disabled relative.

[...]

It later emerged that a few months before the attack Mr Uematsu had taken a letter to Japan's parliament saying he would kill 470 severely disabled people if authorised.

"I want Japan to be a country where the disabled can be euthanised," he said.

Death sentence for killer of 19 disabled people