Hiroshima, Matsuda factory: Resentment of being fired

(Oita Godo Newspaper, June 22^th 2010, Evening Paper, Page 1)

On 22th morning, around 7.35am, in Hiroshima's Matsuda factory site, a man hijacked a car and ran away with it, following that he ran into 11 workers who are working in the factory with the car. Staff Hamada (39 years old) died in the hospital and 2 others sustained heavy injuries, 8 sustained light injuries. The car escaped but the police from Hiroshima caught up with the car as they were just in the same prefecture. The suspect was a temporary staff who worked in Hiroshima was caught. According to the prefecture police, the suspect was fired from Matsuda in April, and has built up hatred and released it on the people whom he knocked over, with the intention to kill.

The suspect welded a cooking knife, and was planning to stop the cars in the factory using the knife. Police deduce that he would kill anyone that stood in his way.

According to Matsuda, the suspect entered the company earlier this year. In this year March 25 he entered the company and was allocated to the plastic section on April 1, and quit on April 14. He only worked for 8 days and the reason for quitting is because of personal reasons. There were no problems.

According to Hiroshima prefecture's police, the suspect's car was found near the east gate of a factory after hitting 7 people, after crossing the road to a factory, then exiting from the north gate.        

Comments

I think that because of Japanese high stress society, with the financial crisis, more and more people are showing signs of distress. But it is not only happening in Japan but in China, in USA. These people are affected by the recession and carry on to inflict the pain to other people. I felt that this is very selfish and we if we have problems, we should try our best to solve it, not to inflict pain on other people or killing oneself.

Tay Zhong Jie Edwin

Singapore

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, APM 4