There has been a fair bit of coverage in the British press recently by the increases in stabbings and knife crime in London.

However, on Sunday, Tokyo was hit my a mass stabbing. The BBC coverage is here, MDN Coverage (in English) here, and there is some blog coverage here. (Warning, the blog report has slightly more graphic pictures).

It’s all pretty horrific, and seems a lot worse in way because this kind of crime is relatively rare in Japan.

Meanwhile, there is a 2-ch (Ni-Channel, a large Japanese chat forum) backlash now, because of the somewhat idiotic actions of bystanders in the background of live TV reports who were mucking around.
Whilst those people being somewhat insensitive is pretty depressing, the 2-ch mob reaction is pretty unpleasant too.

Other Japan links

Talking of mob reactions, the Times newspaper reported on mob behaviour by parents of Japanese school kids.

The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.

An alternative approach to spreading Peak Oil theory to the masses???

Here and here.

Ahh, the sex sells approach ehhh?

‘Oily Cassandra’ (the second link above), has done some other videos, and she really is quite the ‘doomer’ (she’s done other videos.)