
National / Media | DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN Feb 3, 2019
Rethinking the media's coverage of 'theatrical crime' in Japan
by Jake Adelstein
Ten minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, Kazuhiro Kusakabe drove a rental car into pedestrians on Harajuku's famed Takeshita-dori, injuring nine people. The 21-year-old college student drove around 140 meters the wrong way on the one-way street before crashing into a building, forcing him to ...