https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220708/k10013707601000.html

You've been avenged Asanuma! DIE BITCH! :japan-cool::stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:

  • ComradeConnie [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Japanese-American here. NHK is currently reporting the shooter was a Japanese national.

    Is it appropriate that I'm feeling the smallest, tiniest sliver of hope in my parents' birth country right now? I don't know what all this will lead to, but this is probably the biggest political event in Japan since the fucking atom bombs, holy shit.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        People on Japanese internet are saying they've examined the footage more closely and think it's 2 pipes attached to a 2x4 block of wood. Might be an improvised weapon.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          yeah the video had this big smokey blast, not what a normal gun does. someone witnessing said they thought abe got shot with a firework

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            A pipe, some lead shot, and the innards of a bunch of fireworks will make you a passable excuse for a shotgun.

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Heck the Japanese made cannons from wood and they...kind of...worked. Of course like your tube of firework option there's a decent chance you'll get to fire it exactly once.

            • kristina [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              dudes probably breech loading like its the fucking 1700s and no one did anything lmao

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                2 years ago

                "Reacting quickly to a shooting in a public place" is more of an American thing than a Japanese thing.

      • ComradeConnie [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I'll admit I'm not educated on this, but don't most Yakuza and other organized crime syndicates tend to be made up of Zainichi and Burakumin and other marginalized social groups?

        • CommCat [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          yeah but that doesn't make them the good guys, organized criminal organizations are always rightwing and very anti communist, heck they've been used by rightwing governments to hunt down leftists. They are hyper capitalists but do it outside the law.

    • skinwalker [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The pragmatist in me wants it to be a rightoid just because it would make japan go hard left