Univ of Tokyo graduate held for threatening to kill bureaucrats on blog

Sunday 30th November, 06:19 AM JST

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some14some at 08:49 AM JST - 30th November

Maeda told the police he did not prepare any weapon to carry out the plans, the police said.

He felt being deceived by education (ministry) so he also tried to deceive Police/people. what's the problem? It happens all the time in Japan ever since the bust of bubble economy.
uperjer at 09:52 AM JST - 30th November

retard. seriously.
Youdontknow at 10:09 AM JST - 30th November

They've been lying about the reality of the world and its history for decades. Was this idiot lying under a rock the whole time?
ptolemy at 10:11 AM JST - 30th November

How long before the Todai president is on TV apologizing for this clown. This is yet more proof you can put a fool in school, but you cant put schooling into a fool.
outofmydepth at 12:30 PM JST - 30th November

oh that TODAI - just churning out the good stuff.
timeon at 12:51 PM JST - 30th November

the sad reality is that the entrance exam for Todai are very difficult, and not in a good sense (lots of memorizing, problem solving patterns and so on). so it happens that the parents put the kids in cram school since junior high, "to prepare for Todai". the result is some guys that never went out of the room, have no idea about society at all, no friends and no dreams. at some point, their little world crushes, and that's how you end up with depressed kids and even worse. and this is not hearsay, I've been there for 9 years now
romulus3 at 12:55 PM JST - 30th November

he cant even think for himself. his revenge fantasy is of a copycat nature.
borscht at 01:03 PM JST - 30th November

Was this idiot lying under a rock the whole time?

Yes and timeon has more specifics. I've a friend who hires people for his company and he requires college graduates to have had part-time jobs during college because, as he says, Where else will they learn anything? This Todai Grad hasn't learned anything.
nutsagain at 02:42 PM JST - 30th November

I know a guy who already with a BSc degree, and-I-kid-you-not; spent another 9 years trying to get into Kyodai. He's now a qualified MD but I wouldn't let him touch a wart. No offense HS but the whole effort was about brand name, not medicine. I'm sure there are a great many more like him who've spend years preparing for the 'thrill' of having that label to stick on themselves for life. What a waste of time....
GW at 05:07 PM JST - 30th November

timeon, what you just described has been common knowledge for decades. If you have been there for 9yrs you had better get out before too much damage is done!
BBLeo at 05:48 PM JST - 30th November

Don't blame suspect, but 'economy.' Since global warming, and slow collapse of economy around the globe, we have to consider ourselves lucky that we still have bread to eat and water to drink. Students are in chaos, when they finish their degree, at the end there is shortage of work. Education for students should be free on their own soil. As far as I'm concerned 'education ministry' need to learn a lesson from someone.
proxy at 08:51 PM JST - 30th November

I don't understand the headline. It assumes Todai grads are perfect and never do anything wrong, some are really bright, great people, most have been hounded into spending their entire childhood memorizing trivia and are really crazy as the frontal lobes of their brains did not develop normally. There is enough solid research to state clearly, without question that people need about 9 hours of sleep EVERY night until the age of about 21 for there brains to develop normally. In particular, the frontal lobe, or CPU of the brain, where executive function is carried out continues to develop until the early 20s. If your kid is only sleeping 5 hours a night to get into Todai, your kid will end up brain damaged and a little, or a lot, on the strange side.
elbudamexicano at 04:18 AM JST - 1st December

Well I hope this poor lad from the Univ of Tokyo (Tokyo University?) has been kept from hurting anyone. Yes, the Japanese economy is in bad shape but if this lad had any kind of imagination, he could easily apply to work in Dubai etc..where they do have booming economies!
mcheeky at 11:26 AM JST - 1st December

Univ of Tokyo graduate held for threatening to kill bureaucrats on blog

You can't kill people on a blog! Maybe on a table, or even on a car, but not on a blog! Obviously, the threats are impossible to carry out, so they should not be taken seriously.