Koichi Oizumi, a crisis management professor at Aomori Chuo Gakuin University. Authorities fear that the recent spate of suicides involving hydrogen sulfide gas may give terrorists ideas. (Shukan Post)

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  KyouNoNippon at 01:18 PM JST - 22nd May

  Hear Hear!

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  Hughgarse at 02:15 PM JST - 22nd May

  fair assumption

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  netrek at 05:11 PM JST - 22nd May

  If so it will be hard to prevent unless you ban or carefully regulate these common household ingredients that are readily available at any supermarket! Look at the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing, it was done with easily available fertilizer and other chemicals. All terrorists would need to do is make a huge batch of this hydrogen sulfide and release it in a dense population center. Very scary! What is the Japanese equivalent of our FBI? Maybe they now monitor the sale of these detergents and other common ingredients. But if there is a lot of people involved in the plot each could just buy a few ingredients so it would be hard to notice something unusual. Or they could even pay strangers to purchase it for them or get it directly off the black market with yakuza ties.

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