A slightly darker entry today. Although my blog is chiefly music aimed, I feel that can just cover up the darker side of Japan and the shocking issues that occasionally bubble to the surface.

Japan can seem like such a safe country, deceptively so in fact, and you wander around happily thinking little ever happens until something brings your mind back to the darker side. That side that labels the frequent ‘People Accidents’ on Chuo line, Chuocides, or the continuing sad tale of Lindsey Hawker and now today, a man goes psycho in Akihabara with a knife. Why? According to Police he was simply ’sick and tired of life’.

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