As Can Tran reported earlier on Digital Journal Akihabara, Tokyo’s biggest electronics shopping district was the scene of random violence this weekend when Kato attacked random strangers at will as he had written on his blog.

“I will kill people in Akihabara.”

“I will crash my car and when the car becomes unusable, I will use a knife. Good-bye, everyone!”

“I’m used to acting like a good person. I can fool everyone easily,” Kato wrote, adding he was struggling to make friends.

“The time has come.”

Kato had left at least twelve posts online that the police were aware of but they could not stop the attacks.

The Sunday murder spree was committed by a man who lived alone and had a temp job at a car factory. Sadly, it illustrates the emerging violence that has taken hold of Japan. The crime rate in Tokyo has recently changed. The nation used to be proud of the nation’s safety.

Another attack in January at a train station was eerily similar. In that attack Taishi Ikeda randomly stabbed people outside of the station hurting five people and killing one.

In March a teenager wanting to kill someone pushed a stranger under a train.

There have been several reports of suicides that have used chemical gases that stricken others that are in the area of the deaths.

Jinsuke Kageyama, a criminal psychologist at Tokyo Institute of Technology cites the obsession with exam grades and decline of the extended family as factors for the violent behaviors that are emerging in Japan.

“Japan has entered a period of selfishness. People have the feeling that they can do anything,” he said.

“But when these people fail to fulfill themselves in socially acceptable ways, they are treated as losers and their frustration builds up,” he added.

“A series of disappointments can lead them to try to regain their sense of self through crime.”

Japan’s top government spokesman, Nobutaka Machimura believes that his nation should be considered for survival knives like the one that was used in the Sunday attack. The government has not pinpointed a motive for the attack yet.

One theory of the increased violence is that its a means of suicide. Japan has capital punishment. Committing acts that will result in a death sentence could be a way of not pulling the trigger on one’s own death but still being the root cause of it.

“If they have the urge to commit suicide, people will do these things in countries that have the death penalty,” Kageyama said.

Source: By Moments In Time http://timeinmoments.wordpress.com/