Rethinking the media's coverage of 'theatrical crime' in Japan
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 ...
Man who plowed car into pedestrians on New Year's had planned to ignite crowds at Meiji Shrine
The arrested driver of a car that plowed into a crowd in the Harajuku district of Tokyo at New Year has said he was planning to spray kerosene at people at a popular Shinto shrine and set them ablaze, investigative sources said Friday. In the ...
Tokyo car attacker says he kept foot on gas pedal when hitting crowd
A man arrested for deliberately plowing a rented car into a New Year's crowd on a popular Tokyo street has said he kept his foot on the gas pedal during the attack, police officers said Thursday. As no tire marks have been found on Harajuku’s ...
