Two teenagers arrested for threatening to kill students at Tokyo school

Wednesday 17th September, 10:10 AM JST

TOKYO —

Police on Tuesday arrested two teenagers for threatening a junior high school in Hino City, by phoning in a threat saying they would kill students. The two male junior high school students, aged 14 and 15, allegedly called the school on a cell phone around 8:20 a.m. on Sept 5 and threatened to kill students from a school in the city, but didn’t specifiy which school. As a precaution, 25 primary and junior high schools were closed after the call, according to school officials.

The two were quoted by police as saying, “We thought we could go home earlier if we threatened the school because another school in Kunitachi City had sent its students home earlier for the same reason the day before.”

14 Comments

rjd_jr at 10:14 AM JST - 17th September

And another bunch of teenagers in Japan acting like thugs and criminals. Sad decay.
n3312 at 10:31 AM JST - 17th September

“We thought we could go home earlier if we threatened the school because another school in Kunitachi City had sent its students home earlier for the same reason the day before.”

Maybe they had an exam later in the day.
fds at 10:38 AM JST - 17th September

they should have used a public phone. if there are no cameras there's no tracing that!
Speed at 10:42 AM JST - 17th September

Other kids should thank these two for getting them out of school early. The parents, on the other hand, should go to their houses and kick the unko out of them for their kids lost classroom time and perhaps having to come home early from work.
beavis at 11:04 AM JST - 17th September

I'm sorry, but at this point in time these incidents are just laughable. The perpetrators of these crimes are marginally punished, which exhibits to any other prospective threat maker that there is almost nothing to lose if caught. What's equally entertaining is that these junior morons called it in from their own traceable cellphone.
Altria at 11:24 AM JST - 17th September

This would make a great movie...they could call it "Kenji Tanaka's Day Off"
romulus3 at 11:26 AM JST - 17th September

“We thought we could go home earlier if we threatened the school because another school in Kunitachi City had sent its students home earlier for the same reason the day before.”

idiots
pointofview at 11:42 AM JST - 17th September

Why close the schools? Just put security (and not the old 90 years olds we see) out front. A little exagerrated I think.
dennis0bauer at 12:34 PM JST - 17th September

you "eeeediot"!
serindipity at 01:36 PM JST - 17th September

Give these little twits a couple of weeks detention in a western Sydney boys home and they'll never do anything as stupid as this again (if they survive, of course).
DenshaDeGO at 02:30 PM JST - 17th September

I think a little while behind the woodshed with these kids would teach them a lesson. This is Japan however, so probably just a 「携帯電話のマナーを守りましょう」lecture and nothing more.

That'll teach 'em
memyselfI at 03:28 PM JST - 17th September

The school officals did the right thing. I do not want to see another knife attack on children.
memyselfI at 03:31 PM JST - 17th September

These kids will definitely go to a special reform school in Tokyo.
martyman at 09:21 PM JST - 17th September

Public canings TV would limit the amount of enthusiasm to commit crimes. Sorry, I mentioned this on another post, but it would hit the spot.