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A man entered a convenience store in Gonohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Sunday morning, poured gasoline on the floor and set fire to it.
According to police, the man came into the Sunkus store at around 3 a.m. and threatened the two employees with a knife, Yahoo News reported. The man said nothing as he poured gasoline on the floor and lit it. He then fled the store and got away in a car.
Police said a display rack and the ceiling suffered fire damage before the the fire was extinguished by the employees. Nobody was hurt in the fire.
The intruder is described as being in his 30s or early 40s, about 180 cms tall and was wearing a cap, blue overalls and sunglasses.
© Japan Today
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Serrano
Yet another nutter.
100 CPM
An evil selfish angry frustrated pyro-nutter criminal "entered a convenience store in Gonohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Sunday morning and set fire to it"
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FightingViking
Must have been pretty scary for the employees... Hope the security cameras got a good "look".
Barrel Organ
Dangerous looney.
Goodlucktoyou
Should read "knife and arson attack". Thank goodness guns are a rarity in Japan.
Mirai Hayashi
Bad move considering that convenience stores usually have about a hundred cameras recording your every move.
JT: BTW...its Sankus as in Thanks (kataganized) not Sunkus
Moderator
The store's English name is Sunkus.
nath
It's written Sunkus everywhere I see it.
hokkaidoguy
@mirai hayashi
http://www.circleksunkus.jp/
Sioux Chef
Recommend you look at the sign again. JT/Strangerland are correct; it is Sunkus.
Mirai Hayashi
Yes..my bad..there's another business that call themselves Sankus...I stand corrected
Danny Bloom
Coulda been yakuza business reprisal?
wtfjapan
maybe the coffee tasted crap!?
Monozuki
It actually brings back to my mind that JT once run a story like "Sunkus store manager arrested for attempting to rob Lawson store" last April only if I'm correct.
However, this time the man set fire to Sunkus store in Aomori. Yes, Sunkus is a victim store.
Hopefully, it doesn't have anything to do with the last incident.
Chop Chop
He will say "I want to see how it looks like when set fire on Convenience store since I was child" once he was caught by police. He was sick. Normal person doesn’t do it.
PM Abe needs to promote mental illness awareness for Japanese peoples instead of promoting tourism and Casino. Money doesn't make sense when you're not well. Peoples need get right treatment once they were diagnosis with mental health disorder. Everyday we are reading wired crime news committing by all kind of age and person mostly by jobless men in this country. Most of depression and other mental health disorders were untreated and authority doesn’t recognize depression as illness in Japan. Japanese economists must come forward and tell Government how much every year mental illness is costing Japanese economy and Japanese society.
Mental health disorders was epidemic in Japan because long working hours and work place environment condition but no one has recognized mental illness like depression as illness. I found only information about Schizophrenia as mental illness. Schizophrenia is costing the Japanese economy more than £15 billion a year in health care, unemployment and suicides. However, depression sufferers are far more than Schizophrenia patients in Japan. I believe mental health disorders is costing Japanese economy hundreds billions of dollars. Japanese Government should not discount mental illness impact on family and Japanese society.
The cost of mental illness to Australia's collective wellbeing has reached $190 billion a year in 2013- equivalent to about 12 per cent of the economy's annual output. Australia population was about 23.5 million. It’s very small population compare to Japan population 127 million. Japan economy was far larger than Australia economy. Japan economy could have lost hundreds billion of dollars every year by mental health disorders related illnesses.