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Yamaguchi was born on 22 February 1943 in Yanaka, Taitō ward, Tokyo.He was the second son of Shinpei Yamaguchi, who by 1960 would become a high-ranking officer in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and was the maternal grandson of the famous writer Namiroku Murakami, well known for his violent novels glorifying the chivalric code of Japanese organized crime syndicates known as the yakuza.
The Japanese text on the sign translates in English to "Pedestrian precinct shall be discontinued for the time being from June 15." [ 13 ] The Akihabara attack made global headlines and sent shock waves across Japan, [ 53 ] shaking public confidence in what is traditionally considered a society safe from violent crime. [ 54 ]
Of the notable crimes inspired by Yamaguchi's attack one was the Shimanaka Incident of 1 February 1961. In this incident, Kazutaka Komori , a 17-year-old member of the Greater Japan Patriotic Party, attempted to assassinate the president of Chūō Kōron magazine for publishing a graphic dream sequence depicting the beheading of the emperor and ...
Imperial Japanese Army: 8 Japanese soldiers killed eight American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands, and cannibalized four of them. The ninth, and only one to evade capture, was future U.S. President George H. W. Bush: July 1945: Hanaoka incident: Ōdate: Imperial Japanese Army: 418 113 prisoners of war executed; 307 also died
This mission gave the Kaiten their first sinking, USS Mississinewa, but at the cost of all eight Kaiten pilots. The first Kaiten launched from I-47 was piloted by Sekio Nishina, one of the original designers of the weapon. He carried with him the ashes of the other creator, Hiroshi Kuroki, who died in a training accident very early in the ...
The first car was evacuated and several passengers were immediately taken to a hospital. Still, with the first car empty, the train continued down the line for one more stop until it was completely evacuated at Kasumigaseki Station. This attack killed one person and seriously injured 532 others. [33]
During the attack, Jack notices a strange symbol on his attacker's arm. To find out more about his attacker, Jack travels to East Asia. He learns that his attacker is known as the Ginosaji ("silver spoon" in Japanese), an immortal and unstoppable being. It searches for a victim to terrorize and slowly kill by repeatedly hitting them with a spoon.
On 15 April 2023, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was giving a speech in the city of Wakayama in support of a Liberal Democratic Party politician, a candidate running for the by-election, [3] when what was described as a "pipe bomb–like" explosive device was thrown and landed one meter beside him. [4]