Three youths in hospital after gang fight in suburban Tokyo

Monday 09th March, 09:05 AM JST

TOKYO —

Three young men were injured in the early hours of Sunday morning in Fussa City when they got into a fight with another group of young men believed to be from Southeast Asia, police said Monday.

Police said the two gangs got into an argument at around 1.20 a.m. The two gangs met again on the street just before 5 a.m., and they resumed arguing. Police received a call saying a man had been stabbed by a foreigner, and when they rushed to the scene, found an 18-year-old man had been stabbed in his side and a 20-year-old man had been stabbed in his back.

Both were taken to hospital and are in a stable condition, police said. The third youth was also taken to hospital for minor injuries. Police are searching for the men believed to be from Southeast Asia.

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rick0909 at 02:58 PM JST - 9th March

Soldave, I am not talking about reliability exactly. I mean the translations are don't seem to be exactly correct, because only the 20 year old is a "man" in the legal sense. The 18 year old is still a minor and the other kid is a minor, too.

Also, there's no attribution as to who said the men were from SE Asia. Was it a witness, one of the stabbed guys, the caller?
TrappedNTokyo at 03:01 PM JST - 9th March

Maybe they were arguing over the new members that joined Exile and couldnt come to an agreement over choreography styles. "Gangs" in Japan are a joke. They should take a field trip to South Central L.A.
biglittleman at 03:29 PM JST - 9th March

I think the SE asian part was probably based on the description given by the three Japanese males.
biglittleman at 03:52 PM JST - 9th March

Nutsagain,

Being courteous and helpful, isn't a necessary indicator of what people believe to be true. Social pressure can make someone courteous and helpful. So we can't naturally assume the Japanese men were innocent because they are Japanese. And vice versa.
T_rexmaxytime at 04:36 PM JST - 9th March

Why did these S-asians need to stab these punks anyways?

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T_rexmaxytime at 04:49 PM JST - 9th March

S-Asians tend to form gangs. (eg california, Viet-gang Mong Gang) Ship them back to their native country and put a severe condition requirement so the customs can control who to let in. Japan needs to protect its welfare.
biglittleman at 05:00 PM JST - 9th March

So do Japanese. They are called Yakuza. We can find them in California, New York, Cambodia, Thailand, Philipines, Indonesia and Hawaii. Let's not forget parts of Europe and Australia.
T_rexmaxytime at 05:04 PM JST - 9th March

Yakuzas are organized mafia and they have strict rules within the Yakuza community. Also having an organized crime controls the amount of small time criminals because of Yakuzas presence.
Usually Yaks have rules where they are not allow to interfere with non-yakuzas.
T_rexmaxytime at 05:14 PM JST - 9th March

By the way I think the Yaks are discusting dispitable organization
biglittleman at 05:14 PM JST - 9th March

Gangs with rules are OK? Or just Japanese Yakuza are OK? Does your non-yakuzas interference include the Filipina, Korean, Thai and Eastern European women they trick into coming to Japan for prostitution count? How about the drugs they sell to the beautiful Japanese people?

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rick0909 at 05:35 PM JST - 9th March

biglittleman and Trex, Why don't you have your spat about gangsters somewhere else? Its just 2 gangs that fought and some of them got stabbed.

The reason it made it to Japantoday is most likely because of the "foreigner" element.
biglittleman at 06:52 PM JST - 9th March

rick0909,

No, thank you.
toadold at 03:05 AM JST - 10th March

The days when a magistrate or judge would give a ganger a choice between jail or enlisting in the armed services are long gone in the US. I imagine it is no different with the JDF. Because even an infantryman's job has gotten so technical and demands such a high degree coordination even at the 4 and 5 man fire team level, the armed forces have much higher standards than they used to.
bushlover at 06:07 AM JST - 10th March

Young and young is a good mix for disaster. And I guess the SE Asian gang are carrying knives for protection once they are caught at their crimes. I've seen this in Osaka SE Asian guys who were definately watching each others backs as they cased the customers in Kinokuniya bookstore looking for an easy pickpocket target. From the language they spoke I picked up that they were Phillipino. And after going to their country It didn't surprise me one bit. I'd say this could be the case here too. Why the fight I have no idea but would think the J-guys started it and the SE Asians finished it in protection and then fled.
bushlover at 11:07 AM JST - 10th March

I won't side totally with the SE Asians as it begs the question why they were carrying a knife in the first place. I stand by my post above as to why this might be. So in this article I put the blame on the situation on the J-guys and their resulting injuries on the SE Asian pickpocket (my speculation) gang.