Well, im sure everyone knows about the news on the Akihabara's bloody rampage. Japan (not really sure this is true) being one of the safest country, one might stop and ponder on the odds of such incidents happening.
In 1995, one freakish incident happened too in Japan which was the sarin-gas attack in the Tokyo subway that was ordered by the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and killed a dozen people.
[excerpts (bottom) from sfgate.com/]
Tomohiro Kato ( the man who caused it), told investigators "that he had decided to stage the attack two or three days earlier and chose the Akihabara area because he had visited it and knew 'many people gather there.'"
Kato "admitted posting messages to an online bulletin board warning of his rampage up to seven hours before arriving in the Akihabara district," Japanese police investigators said.
In one message, headlined "I will kill people in Akihabara," Kato stated that he intended to smash a vehicle into a crowd; the message noted: "When I can't use the car anymore, I will use a knife...."
i shall leave it here.
-im out.