Not The Time To Have Acid Thrown At You By Psychotics

Well, it's already a pretty grim start to the week on this blog. A report from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency today states that 8.3% of people in need of emergency treatment were rejected by three or more hospitals in one week in December, because of a lack of space. 60 people were rejected by over 10 hospitals, and three by over 23. Earlier this month a man died after being rejected by 14 hospitals.

Tread carefully out there. Happy Monday, everyone.

Show And Tell

Two schoolboys in Okinawa found an unexploded bomb from World War 2 and brought it into their school as study material. It turned out to be safe as the fuse was no longer intact, but it was still a pretty scary moment for the teachers.

The most surprising aspect of the linked article is the statement that in just two weeks this month, the SDF unearthed and disposed of 445 unexploded WW2 bombs in Okinawa. The Americans really took that place to task. For those of you who don't know, Okinawa was a major strategic field in the war between America and Japan, with one of the largest battles being held there in which almost 200,000 Japanese people died. It was going to be the base from which the Americans launched their invasion of Japan, but soon after they won it they decided to just nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the short term, nuking the two cities was a horrific and inhuman thing to do, but in the long term it probably saved a lot of lives that would undoubtedly have been lost in the defence of a ground-invasion.

As the linked article states, earlier this month a man had part of his face blown off when a water-pipe he was repairing disturbed a WW2 bomb. This sort of thing shouldn't be happening. It's too tragic for words.

Hoshijima

This is kind of interesting: Hoshijima Takanori, who is on trial for the murder of Tojo Rurika, a 23-year-old Tokyo resident, has recently stated that he wants to apologise to the victim and her family by accepting a death penalty. It's odd because the murder was so brutal - she was a neighbour of his, and he broke into her apartment (I think) and then stabbed her to death and dismembered her. He dumped parts of the body in a variety of places to try to cover his tracks. Now that he's arrested and on trial he's not even putting up any sort of defence, and seems genuinely broken up by the whole incident. He's clearly a disturbed man.

A Complete Dipshit

Someone in Nagoya thought it would be funny to put a brick in a cardboard box and write on the box that it contained a bomb that would go off if moved. Then he ran away, probably while giggling like a little shit, to wait for the bomb squad to arrive so he could finally get an erection to jack off. What a total asshole.

Some People Are Just Wrong

Some sicko is stealing urns of ashes from a crematorium in Toyama. He leaves messages where the urn was saying things such as, "I'll take care of it. Don't worry" and "I got the urn. I'm old-woman mania". In some cases he left lingerie where the urn was. If you can read Japanese there's more detailed coverage here.

Fairly perverse, right?