Arsonist sought after 4 die in Osaka pachinko parlor fire

Monday 06th July, 01:30 AM JST

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IfeelImust at 12:22 AM JST - 6th July

And those of us that use kerosene to heat our hot water? Potential arsonists?
sk4ek at 06:47 AM JST - 6th July

His point was likely that most people who buy kerosene in portable jugs use it for portable heaters in winter. Nabe-cooking usually involves compressed gas canisters, a completely different thing.
zaichik at 06:49 AM JST - 6th July

i think the point is that most people buy/use cans of kerosene for cooking nabe at home

Gas (in cannisters) is more usual for the stoves for nabe - kerosene is the fuel used in fan heaters.
BurakuminDes at 09:56 AM JST - 6th July

Only JT posters could possibly turn this tragedy into a debate on kerosene use. What he used to start this fire is absolutely irrelevant.
getsy at 11:38 AM JST - 6th July

Yeah I think some of the JT posters need to get a bit of a life.. You seem to argue about anything. Matches or a lighter????
bobbafett at 12:21 PM JST - 6th July

Matches or a lighter????

could have rubbed sticks together or reflected the suns rays using a pair of glasses. He may have just yanked a smoke from the mouth of a slot jockey and used that.
Altria at 01:32 PM JST - 6th July

Why didn't people flee when it started getting hot? Did they think they'd hit fever mode?
cleo at 01:42 PM JST - 6th July

Why didn't people flee when it started getting hot?

According to the morning news, the arsonist chucked the kerosene/petrol/whatever directly at people; one minute they were playing pachinko, a split-second later their clothes were in flames.
bushlover at 03:09 PM JST - 6th July

I hope they catch this w@nkar and summarily execute him.
FryingMonkey at 03:28 PM JST - 6th July

Couldn’t agree more bushlover, but I think his summary execution should be by 20 liters of gasoline and a match. Can’t imagine a worst way to go. RIP folks.
Osakadaz at 04:32 PM JST - 6th July

I feel that the Government should really look at Pachinko parlours and the bigger picture.They attract folk who gamble their lives away ..a lot of them unemployed if the lines in the mornings are much to go by,there seems to be a lot of crime/murder attached to pachinko and the profits of many parlours seem to end up in North Korea.I really feel for the 20 year old girl who died in this shocking act of cowardice and selfishness.
flammenwerfer at 05:30 PM JST - 6th July

Japanese news sites are reporting he was a bitter customer of the establishment who lost his money and the apparently his marbles too as he left and returned and did this evil deed. Having suffered a large second degree burn myself I can sympathize with any burn victim - the pain is truly excruciating.
kirakira25 at 06:20 PM JST - 6th July

This happened to me about 2 years ago in the ward office! One minute I am updating my gaijin card, the next an older Japanese guy with a big 20 litre plastic canister full of what I thought was water starts chucking it all over the floor and splashing it at people, me included. The smell seems to take a few seconds to disperse, and then I got a whiff of gasoline and I was out of my seat and out of there! It is a REALLY scary experience because these nut-jobs are just wild-eyes - they obviously don't give a $£%£ about what they are doing.
BeaverCleaver at 07:50 PM JST - 6th July

Its amazing how long it takes human brains to react to a guy toting a tank full of flamables, then spreading it around the parlor, and finally lighting it up. Then how after all that, bedazzled by the flames, people who are not on fire don't think to chase down beat a lesser demon back to hell from whence he came.

I am sure I would have been slow to react to. Very sad story.
Monoflow at 08:28 PM JST - 6th July

Pachinko can ruin your life... so or so...