Yakuza now ‘the biggest private equity firm in Japan’
As much as I complain that American corporations are run by a bunch of crooks, I suppose I’m lucky I don’t live in Japan - where the corporations really are run by crooks.
Japan’s powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread and “infectious” assault on the country’s financial markets that may have left hundreds [...]
Gorilla Grodd on the run in Tokyo
Man, if I had a dime for every ‘escaped simian’ story we posted, I’d be blogging this from my beachfront property in Tahiti. Yet another crazed monkey has eluded the elite Tokyo MCC (Monkey Catching Corps). The monkey, which entertained the crowd with its’ cop-dodging antics, is now on the loose, and is probably gathering [...]
Gary Glitter to star in ‘The Terminal 2: The Quickening’
Gary Glitter, who was recently released from a Vietnamese prison where he did three years for diddling children, is ‘in transit’ at Bangkok airport after refusing to board a flight to London. I don’t know about you, but after spending 3 years in a Vietnamese prison, I’d gladly fly just about anywhere other than Vietnam. [...]
Leaking Toilet Exposes Corrupt Official
At first, the headline made me laugh. If you are a corrupt government official, you need to make sure the toilet works properly!
Then, I wondered how wet boxes of cash could be the cause of an overflowing toilet. Unless the guy put them in the toilet for some reason.
Then I went back and read it [...]
7 injured in (yet another) Japanese stabbing-spree
The AP reports that another knife-wielding lunatic went batshit crazy, wounding 7 commuters at a train station in Hiratsuka, Japan. I’m still waiting with baited breath for an ‘otaku’ reference to crop up somewhere in connection to the spree…
The woman attempted to cut her wrist with an army knife at a shopping mall Monday night [...]
The sad story of Diana O’Brien
I read about the murder of Canadian model Diana O’Brien a few days ago, and it’s been lingering in the back of my mind ever since. Her senseless killing (at the hands of an 18-year-old petty thief) was bad enough, but when you find out just what she was doing during her short two-weekresidence in [...]
Japanese woman lulls attacker with cup of tea
A 30-year-old housewife in Tokyo calmed a knife-wielding assailant by offering him a cup of tea, according to the ever-reliable Fox News.
The woman told her assailant that she had no money but he followed her and forced his way into her apartment, police said.
But rather than screaming, the woman served the man a cup of [...]
Copycat stabbing - er, cutting - in Akihabara
Well, it looks like one nutbag made it through the dragnet Japanese police made this week which nabbed 12 would-be knife-wielding maniacs. Kotaku is reporting that a policeman in Akihabara was attacked and injured while checking bags in the district. The officer only received minor wounds to the hand.
Not sure if this is [...]
Akihabara stabbings inspire would-be copycats - 12 arrested
What is it about the human race, that when confronted with a sensationalized tragedy it inevitably follows that a number of wierdos will step up to plate hoping to replicate it? Isn’t life shitty enough without everyone constantly wanting to add to the misery? Seriously?
“I will commit a massacre that will go down in history,” [...]
Japan’s ‘otaku cannibal’ meets his maker
Reading about the execution of 45-year old Tsutomu Miyazaki, the proto-killer otaku who killed young girls and drank their blood, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Japan’s other cannibal wierdo, the infamous Issei Sagawa (who I should point out is a free man, and even enjoys status as a b-list celebrity of sorts.)
What’s up, [...]
