{"id":841,"date":"2007-12-15T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T07:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=841"},"modified":"2014-11-06T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T00:07:37","slug":"sasebo-gym-shooting-some-media-speculates-that-a-nj-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Sasebo Gym Shooting: Some media speculates that a NJ did it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Probably by now most of you have heard about the shooting in Sasebo, Kyushu, where an unknown assailant walked in and shot several people, killing two.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20071215a1.html<\/a> (only one death mentioned).<\/p>\n

Then came the speculation whodunit. The perpetrator was described as wearing camouflage pants and a white jacket, with his face covered. His height (170 to 190 cms, quite a variation). The Japan Times article above (and a Sankei article below) insinuated that there might have been organized crime involved. NHK left nationality out completely as a factor. Most other press was very good about not spreading rumors about the perp being a foreigner due to his height (and also because Sasebo has a US military base). It turned out that the perp was probably, after all, a Japanese.
\nhttp:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2007-12\/15\/content_7253555.htm<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUST17483720071215<\/a><\/p>\n

But not all media was so responsible about keeping their rumors to themself. NTV, Sankei and Mainichi reports follow:<\/p>\n

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Here are some screen captures, courtesy Alex Miller. News Zero (NTV) Dec 14, 2007, quoting a bystander witness at the sports club, but feeling the need not only to air the speculation, but even subtitle it (click on image to expand in your browser):
\n“Many people said, “He was wearing camouflage, dark colored, he’s a black person.'”
\n\"134833.jpg\"<\/a>
\n“A person said, ‘I think the shooter was a black person.'”
\n\"134834.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sankei articles reproduced in total, with select translations within (love the one with the fatheaded Sophia U professor speculating on why it’s a foreigner):<\/p>\n

Sankei Shinbun:
\nHeadline: “Witnesses also say, ‘[The Shooter] looked like a foreigner'”
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\n\u7523\u7d93\u65b0\u805e\u30002007.12.14 23:39
\nhttp:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/affairs\/crime\/071214\/crm0712142339045-n1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sankei Shinbun: “Sasebo Shooting: Perp profile? Quite possibly a foreigner”
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\n\u7523\u7d93\u65b0\u805e\u30002007.12.15 00:32
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Fukushima Akira, Professor Emeritus at Jouchi\/Sophia University (Criminal Psychologist) conjectures, “I can envision that the perp had some kind of great stress. A guy with no money, no job, no friends. That kind of a person commits a crime like this to become heroic. There’s plenty of possibility that the perp was a foreigner who was influenced by all the shootings going on in the USA.”<\/p>\n

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Sankei Shinbun headline: “The ever-smiling [killed gym staff member] Ms. Kuramoto, ‘She was being stalked by a foreigner'”
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\n\u7523\u7d93\u65b0\u805e\u30002007.12.15 00:49
\nhttp:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/affairs\/crime\/071215\/crm0712150049003-n1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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[Note how there’s lots of information in the article, but only the last line, which contains any information about the alleged gaijin stalking, is the one which makes the headline.]<\/i>
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Now let’s switch into English, with two Mainichi articles courtesy Mark Mino-Thompson:<\/p>\n

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Fatal shooting hits Nagasaki sports club
\nMainichi Shinbun Dec 14, 2007
\nhttp:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/national\/news\/20071214p2a00m0na030000c.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

SASEBO, Nagasaki — Two people died and several others were injured after a gunman opened fire at a sports club here Friday, police and other sources said.<\/i><\/p>\n

An emergency phone call was received from the Renaissance Sasebo sports club in the city at 7:13 p.m. Friday, reporting a noise like an explosion. A subsequent report said it appeared that a rifle had been fired.<\/p>\n

When officials arrived, they found a woman collapsed at the scene. She was taken to a hospital but was confirmed dead. The woman was subsequently identified as Mai Kuramoto, 26, a worker at the club. Reports said she had died almost instantly after being shot.<\/p>\n

Officials said a man in his 30s was also shot in the stomach and died.<\/p>\n

At least five other people, including a 48-year-old man, a 39-year-old man and two girls aged 10 and 9, were reported injured.<\/p>\n

Sasebo Police Station officials said the shooter was between 170 and 180 centimeters tall, and was wearing a full-faced helmet and a silver-gray jacket. Reports said that he fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n

Sources at the sports club said that recently Kuramoto had been stalked by a foreigner.<\/b><\/p>\n

The sports club, which has a training gym and pool, occupies the second, third and fourth floors of a four-story building. It is located in a central but quiet area of the city next to a park.<\/p>\n

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And the update (minus any apology) later…..<\/p>\n

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Suspected gunman in Sasebo shooting rampage commits suicide with shotgun
\nMainichi Shinbun Dec 15, 2007
\nhttp:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/national\/news\/20071215p2a00m0na002000c.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

SASEBO, Nagasaki — A man believed responsible for a deadly shooting rampage that left two people dead and six injured at a sports club here was found dead in the grounds of a church early Saturday, apparently after he committed suicide, police said.<\/p>\n

Investigators singled out a 37-year-old man with a registered shotgun as the suspect in the deadly shooting, which occurred at the Renaissance sports club in Sasebo on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Police launched a search for the man, and found him dead in the grounds of a church about 5 kilometers southwest of the shooting scene at about 7:35 a.m. on Saturday. He was identified as Masayoshi Magome, a resident of the Funakoshi district of Sasebo.<\/p>\n

A single gunshot was heard in the area at about two hours earlier. Police said the man was clutching a shotgun, leading them to suspect that he committed suicide.<\/p>\n

In the predawn hours of Saturday, a white van that Magome was believed to have abandoned was found on a road in front of the church. Two shotguns, an air rifle and camouflage gear were recovered from the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The gunman entered the sports club shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, and fired a shot from the entrance on the second floor towards a hall in the building as he walked forward. He then moved into an office behind a counter and fatally shot 26-year-old part-time employee Mai Kuramoto, who was with a group of children. He then turned the gun on Yuji Fujimoto, a 36-year-old fishing industry worker at the club, killing him.<\/p>\n

Kuramoto died almost instantly in the shooting, while Fujimoto died of shock from multiple pellet wounds shortly after.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, Magome had invited Fujimoto and several other people to the sports club, and statements from his friends led police to single him out as the suspect. Magome was reportedly a classmate of Fujimoto during junior high school.<\/p>\n

Also injured in the shooting were the 48-year-old club manager, a 39-year-old Sasebo Municipal Government worker, a 46-year-old man, a 22-year-old female instructor at the club, and two girls, aged 9 and 10.<\/p>\n

The gunman temporarily holed himself up in the office, but then he fired other shots from the side of the pool at the club. He apparently fired at least six shots before fleeing on foot, carrying the shotgun. He was wearing camouflage gear and a full-face helmet.<\/p>\n

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COMMENT: It seems they were all wrong. I would just love for these media organizations (and that Sophia prof emeritus Fukushima Akira) to take responsibility and retract their conjectures. But I guess that’s errant speculation on my part.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, let’s hope the next shootist in Japan isn’t so tall, or hairy, or broad-shouldered, or cruel, or nearby–or else we’re going to have people kicking into default (and encouraged thusly by the media) that a gaijin musta dunnit. Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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