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Mar 2024
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The Akihabara Massacre | 2008

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On 8 June 2008, the crossing of Kanda Myojin-dori and Chuo-dori in Akihabara, Tokyo, was bustling with the usual weekend throng of shoppers and tourists. However, chaos would soon break out as a van drove straight into the crowd, before the driver stepped out with a knife; in what would turn out to be one of the most heinous crimes in Japanese history.

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