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Japan girl group AKB48 attacked by male fan with saw
BBC ^ | 26 May 2014 | staff

Posted on 05/26/2014 8:11:51 AM PDT by csvset

Two members of popular Japanese pop group AKB48 were injured after a fan attacked them with a saw.

Rina Kawaei, 19, and Anna Iriyama, 18, were meeting with fans in the northern city of Takizawa on Sunday when a man lunged forward and slashed them.

They sustained cuts on their hands and heads, reported Kyodo. A male staff member was also cut on his hand.

The group holds the Guinness record for being the world's largest pop group.

The police have arrested the 24-year-old man, identified as Satoru Umeta.

AKB48's manager was reported as saying the two girls' surgery was successful and they would be able to leave the hospital by Monday.

A Tokyo concert scheduled for Monday night and other fan events have been cancelled.

News of the attack was covered widely in national media. AKB48, which was founded in 2005, is hugely popular in Japan and other Asian countries.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 20; akb48; iriyama; japan; kawaei; saw; umeta; unemployed
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Pics of the girls at the source. Beautiful women.

The Japan Times reports that the attacker, an unemployed man from Towada, Aomori Prefecture, has been named as 24-year-old Satoru Umeta, who remains in police custody.

1 posted on 05/26/2014 8:11:52 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

More info on AKB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48


2 posted on 05/26/2014 8:15:54 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: csvset

Thank God they have gun control in Japan, No one is ever killed or injured there!


3 posted on 05/26/2014 8:16:08 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: csvset

Guy probably couldn’t get a date so he employed the Elliot Rogers method of charm.


4 posted on 05/26/2014 8:22:01 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: csvset

Adorable. No accounting for nut jobs. I suggest Japan immediately ban saws, knives and all sharp objects.

5 posted on 05/26/2014 8:24:00 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: csvset
We frequently cruise Asian media.

These girls hire out for birthday parties for old men and a bunch of et cetera's

They're not whores ... just pretty girls making money until they age too much

Some kind of Japan ((but some words sound Korean)) Got talent a year ago

6 posted on 05/26/2014 8:28:10 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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[ Thank God they have gun control in Japan, No one is ever killed or injured there! ]

The Monopoly of gun violence is held by the Yakuza over there...


7 posted on 05/26/2014 8:32:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: knarf
Can't read any of it, it's all Nihonese. d;-)

8 posted on 05/26/2014 8:38:03 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: GraceG

More than a third our population, double the suicide rate, no guns.


9 posted on 05/26/2014 8:45:21 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: csvset
world's largest pop group.

So, ex-basketball players? Or what?

10 posted on 05/26/2014 8:50:05 AM PDT by DManA
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To: csvset

These girls are ninjas by nite...no harm done...I think they need PSD from this point on...wonder where the application form is....looking....


11 posted on 05/26/2014 8:52:39 AM PDT by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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Was this a chain saw, a cross cut saw, or what. Seems an odd weapon of choice. Of course, Japan took farm implements and made weapons out of them.


12 posted on 05/26/2014 8:57:53 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DManA

48 original members, up to 140 now... with spinoff groups (of 48 members each) in several Japanese other cities now. The first non-Japanese group is JKT48, in Jakarta. The second will be in Shanghai (SNH48). It’s the “idols you can meet” concept... and they’re churning out singles and records that are hitting the charts with great frequency. The AKB48 is made about $220 million in sales last year.


13 posted on 05/26/2014 9:00:19 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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(is made = made)


14 posted on 05/26/2014 9:01:05 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: BCW; GraceG; GeronL; Bikkuri; Army Air Corps

The Require Bodyguards, STAT!

I Volunteer.

As for Guns, is there any wonder why Gun Tourism is SO big in Guam and Hawaii?

Because Asians Aren't allowed Guns.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2013/02/15/in-guam-gun-tourism-is-big-business/1924089/

http://www.teaparty.org/machine-gun-tourism-thrives-vegas-33410/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2013/09/29/guns-hawaii/

15 posted on 05/26/2014 9:06:40 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

Was gonna ping you. Saw you were already here. all is right with the world ;)


16 posted on 05/26/2014 9:10:01 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: knarf

Basically, a larger Japanese implementation of “Menudo”. . .


17 posted on 05/26/2014 9:15:38 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: Salgak

with a female version of it


18 posted on 05/26/2014 9:22:12 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: KC_Lion

I heartily volunteer for guard duty.


19 posted on 05/26/2014 10:17:43 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: freedumb2003

Not guilty.


20 posted on 05/26/2014 10:27:57 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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