On
this date, 29 March 2012, Yasuaki Uwabe was executed in the Hiroshima Detention
House, Japan by hanging for the 29 September 1999 Shimonoseki Station mass
murder of five men. I will post information about him from Wikipedia.
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Yasuaki Uwabe
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Shimonoseki Station, East Gate
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Location
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Shimonoseki,
Yamaguchi, Japan
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Date
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September
29, 1999
4:25 pm (JST) |
Attack
type
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Mass murder,
stabbing
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Weapon(s)
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Car, knife
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Deaths
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5
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Injured
(non-fatal)
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10
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Perpetrator
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Yasuaki
Uwabe
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The
Shimonoseki Station massacre took place on September 29, 1999 when Yasuaki
Uwabe, then aged 35, drove a car into the station. Exiting the car, he
proceeded to stab passers-by at random until apprehended at the scene. As a
result of his actions, five people were killed and 10 others were injured;
Uwabe was arrested at the scene.
Early
life
Yasuaki
Uwabe was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. After graduating from Kyushu
University in 1989, Uwabe left one job in 1991 and another, at an architectural
firm, due to his social phobias. Uwabe married in 1993 and opened his own
architectural firm, but quit in 1997 due to his phobias. As he ran out of
money, he received a loan to buy a truck and began work in the delivery service
industry. At the same time he began to isolate himself. He got a divorce in
June 1999. On September 24 the same year, his truck was lost in a flood due to
a typhoon, and his loan was recalled. He asked his parents to pay for the loan
but they refused. Looking back on his early life, Uwabe described how, after
graduating as a first class architect from a national university of Japan he
found it hard to open his own design office and began to blame his parents and
society for his frustration. He says he was also motivated by another crime
three weeks earlier when a 23-year-old man stabbed eight people (and killing
two) in Ikebukuro.
Attack
On
September 29, 1999 at around 4:25 pm, Uwabe, who was still working in the
transportation industry, drove a rented car into the east entrance of
Shimonoseki Station. Driving through the first platform floor, Uwabe hit at
least seven people, two of whom died at the scene. As the car got stuck, Uwabe
got out of the car and progressed up to the second platform on the second
floor, brandishing a knife. After using the knife to stab a further seven
people, Uwabe was overpowered by local police and arrested at the scene.
Aftermath
After
his arrest, Uwabe said that "No matter what [he] did, it never turned out
well, which made [him] bitter toward society". He also stated that he
decided to use a car in order to "kill more people". He was judged by
the Yamaguchi District Court and was found guilty of all charges and sentenced
to death. He was executed by hanging on March 29, 2012.
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