19 dead, ~20 injured in knife attack near Tokyo

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/livecoverage/breaking-news-now/lc-BBuQOGL

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2016/Japan

19 people have been killed, ~20 injured in stabbing attack at facility for disabled outside of Tokyo

Update:

"Police: Suspect who turned himself in knife attack at facility for disabled outside of Tokyo says he was a former employee of the facility - NHK"

Mass killings seem to be a daily thing now.

Very sad world now......I wonder if the constant media attention is partially to blame.

This is just nuts.

Who wants to go to the moon with me

Wow... the world has gone craze.

WTF is going on anymore?!?!

if everybody had knives this wouldn't have happened

Yeah.. Bann knives too dammit... only can carry butter-knives. lol

No really.. how sad the world is going mad right now.

A facility for the disabled?? What a coward.

How terribly tragic. Why? Just, why? :(

They are just making the news more often.

Mass killings (50-100 dead) happened 2-5 times a day in Iraq and Afghanistan for years. Nobody cared.

Read this earlier. BBC is claiming 19 killed. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36890655

That is some evil coward to be attacking/killing the disabled..hope he gets whatever that is coming to him.

NO NAME. NO PHOTO. NO NOTORIETY.

The mass media turns mass-murderers into notorious celebrities, which in turn inspires mentally deranged losers to carry out copycat mass-murders in order to gain fame and notoriety. While mass-murders should still be reported, the people perpetrating these atrocities do not deserve to become famous, as that will only inspire more mass-murders.

Japan is still far safer than the US (which has a homicide rate more than a dozen times higher than Japan)... which is why a mass-murder in one of the safest countries is all the more shocking.

Conversely, imagine how much worse it would have been if the guy had a gun.

Or a truck.

That actually doesn't really make sense for indoor facilities, which is where these mass murders happen most often anyways. Yes, this guy could have killed a lot more with a gun, but not with a truck.

There was a while when airplane crashes were 'popular' and we heard a disproportionate amount of news about them to the point that several people I know did not want to fly somewhere anymore. It wasn't because suddenly 4 times the amount of airplanes crashed, it was just the type of news that was 'hot' so we heard more about crashes that have always been happening in all the years we heard so little about them. I always hope it's the same with this kind of sad news. Not a sign of where we are at in the world, but a sign of the kind of news that is popular.

@lamprey263: shh you're gonna trigger some anti gun nut.

That's all fine and well, but the reason the mass media turns mass murderers into celebrities is because the public eats that shit up. It's easy to advocate that the media not over-sensationalize this stuff, but they're GONNA do it so long as the public goes nuts over mass-murders. That's sort of asking them to walk away from money on the table by NOT reporting on stuff that people want them to report on.

Isn't that human nature? I'm not sure you can blame the people for paying attention to horrible stories. And yes you are right, you can't blame journalists from wanting money. The only solution I see is to think of a payment method that does not involve the amount of viewers or interest a story generates.

Yup, this has academic backing too. Experts agree with this. And is irresponsible media coverage only helps encourage this kind of violence. Ever noticed how mass killings are almost always followed by more mass killings, copycat killers?

The popular jRPG Persona 4 brought up this topic as well.