30 Dec, 2007
Young Japanese Man Arrested For Posting Threats On Message Board
Posted by: admin In: programming
A 21-year-old Japanese man was arrested today after posting a message on an online message board where he threatened to kill voice actress and singer Nana Mizuki and her fans at a planned concert. This might have not gotten him in as much trouble had he not described how he was going to kill everyone–by using the same weapons used in a recent massacre in Akihabara. Way to go, sport.
Now, I’m hardly versed in Japanese freedoms of speech, but even if this had taken place in the USA, none of this would surprise me. We have the right to express anything we want in America, but that doesn’t exempt us from any backlash that expression may incur. You can’t call a Hell’s Angel a queer and not expect to get punched.
Funnier still, the dude claimed that he merely posted the message just to see what kind of reaction it would create. I hope that satisfies your curiosity, jackass. The thing about the authorities in Japan: They don’t less of a sense of humor than we do. They do not fuck around with that. Especially when the Akihabara massacre was preceded by a similar threat on another message board.
Let this be a lesson to all forum trolls…