2008
Tokyo.
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested two high school boys (16, 17) on
July 27, 2008, on suspicion of setting a vending machine on fire in a parking
lot at Haneda Airport in Ota Ward, by putting four fireworks into the machine on
July 26, 2008.
Source: "2 teens held over burning vending machine", 28.7.2008, http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080728TDY02308.htm
Tsuno
(on the island of Shikoku)/Southwest Japan. A rocket at a fireworks show flew
into a crowd of spectators, injuring 10 people. The injured, including an
8-month-old baby, suffered minor burns. 15.8.2008
Source:
2007
Shintomura, Gunma Prefecture. A fire that destroyed the house of the owner of a fireworks factory triggered explosions in two of four single-story sheds in which charcoal, magnesium and other firework components were stored and damaged the two other storage sheds. The shock waves broke windows of about 30 houses within a 200-meter radius. The owner's wife suffered a minor burn to her right hand. 16.6.2007
Source: "Fire triggers explosion at fireworks factory", 17.6.2007, http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070617TDY02008.htm
Kagoshima.
A 53-year-old pyrotechnician was lighting fireworks on a boat during a fireworks
show near a port in Kamiyaku, when a firework exploded on the boat. The
explosion blew off the pyrotechnician's right arm below his elbow. An assistant
(37) also suffered injuries.
Source: "Pyrotechnician's arm blown off in accident at Kagoshima fireworks show", 6.8.2007, http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070806p2a00m0na009000c.html
2006
=Yame.
Senior worker Kazumasa Yamaguchi (46) died in an explosion at a storehouse in a
fireworks plant. The storehouse had been used to temporarily store fireworks
under production and was badly damaged in the blast. 21.2.2006
Source: "Worker dies in explosion at fireworks plant", 21.2.2006, http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060221p2a00m0na025000c.html
Hitachi.
A man (67) fired a shotgun at his neighbor (36), who was shooting off rocket
fireworks on the road; fortunately he missed the man. He said that he did it
because the fireworks were too noisy and the neighbor would not stop after he
asked him to. The man was arrested a day later (14.8); he stands accused of
violence and the illegal use of firearms. 13.8.2006
Source:
"Man nabbed for firing shotgun at neighbor over 'noisy' fireworks", 14.8.2006, http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060814p2a00m0na010000c.html
"Man fires shotgun to halt fireworks", 15.8.2006, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060815a8.html
2005
Osaka.
A dancer performing at an attraction for Osaka's Universal Studios Japan at
about 6:46 p.m. was injured when one of 276 fireworks launched from the top of
the stage fell down. Sparks from the fireworks flew into the woman's clothing,
leaving her with light burns on her left leg. 10.1.2005
Source:
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200501/24/20050124p2a00m0dm003000c.html
Hikari. Ein Oberschüler (18) warf eine selbstgemachte Bombe in einen Klassenraum. 58 Mitschüler wurden verletzt, 17 Schüler mussten ins Krankenhaus. Ein Junge erlitt durch die Detonation schwere Verletzungen durch Glassplitter in den Beinen und im Bauch. Andere Schüler erlitten leichte Brandwunden und klagten über Uebelkeit sowie Schmerzen in Augen und Ohren in Folge des Qualms.
Laut Polizei handelte es sich bei der selbstgebastelten Bombe um eine Glasflasche, gefüllt mit einer Kombination aus Schwarzpulver (gewonnen aus Feuerwerkskörpern) und anderen Substanzen. Die schwereren Verletzungen wurden durch mehrere Dutzend Nägel verursacht, die der Schüler dazugemengt hatte.
Der 18jährige wurde wegen Körperverletzung von der Polizei festgenommen; die Polizei erklärte, sie schliesse nicht aus, ihn wegen versuchten Mordes anzuklagen. Das Motiv für die Tat ist unklar. 10.6.2005
Quelle:
"Japanischer Schüler verursacht Explosion", 10.6.2005, http://www.netzeitung.de/ausland/343127.html
"Junge warf Schiesspulver ins Klassenzimmer", 10.6.2005, http://www.f-r.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/aus_aller_welt/?cnt=687326
"Schüler baute Bombe nach Anleitung aus dem Internet", 11.6.2005, http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2075776
"Schoolboy's
scatter bomb made for maximum impact", 10.6.2005, http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050611p2a00m0dm009000c.html
"Teenager
with a grudge bombed classmates injuring 58", 11.6.2005, http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4677393
"Schüler wirft Sprengsatz ins Klassenzimmer", 10.6.2005, http://www.20min.ch/tools/suchen/story/29336293
2004
Miyakonojo. 9 people including 6 children suffered light burns on their
hands and feet during a fireworks display on a sportsfield. A small-sized
rocket measuring 63 millimeters in diameter fell over after it was lit. The
rocket shot toward a group of spectators and exploded, injuring a 2-year-old
infant, four elementary schoolchildren aged between 8 and 10, a 13-year-old
junior high school boy and three adults aged between 47 and 65, who were all
about 10-meters away from the launching area.
Source:
http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/932234/fireworks-0-9.html
Saitama.
A boy (15) has been arrested after using gunpowder from fireworks to create pipe
bombs he intended to use to blow up his school, police said.
Source:
http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/932234/fireworks-0-8.html
2003
=Kagoshima. Seven people were killed at an explosion at the Nangoku Fireworks Co. factory on April 11, 2003. Three female pedestrians passing by the area were slightly injured by the explosion. Three buildings caught fire and burned down.
Rescue operations, searching the wreckage of the factory for two missing workers, found them dead April 12, 2003, bringing the number of victims to nine. The bodies has been identified as that of Takuya Fukuda (23) and Kenichi Sei (35).
Hideyo Sonoda (27) who suffered serious
injuries in the blast died April 26, 2003, at the hospital where he was being treated for blood poisoning
after the accident, bringing the total number of people killed in the explosion to
10.
Investigators said the explosion occurred in a room where two workers
were mixing metal powder used in color fireworks, including aluminium and
magnesium, with gunpowder and that the static electricity on workers'
clothes and heat generated by friction from the gunpowder as possible causes
of the blast.
Nangoku Fireworks, which was inaugurated in March 1968, is the largest fireworks manufacturer in Kagoshima.
The fireworks manufacturing company had operated its plant illegally for more
than a decade, police investigators said. In 1989, the company expanded its
plant in terms of floor space by 200% without obtaining permission from the
authorities.
Source:
"7 killed,
3 missing in fireworks factory explosion in Japan", 11.4.2003, Xinhua News
Agency
"Explosion rips through fireworks factory killing 7", 11.4.2003, http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/932449/kagoshima20fireworks-0-4.html
"Worker missing after fireworks factory blast found dead", 12.4.2003, http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/932449/kagoshima20fireworks-0-3.html
"Last missing victim of fireworks blast found dead", 12.4.2003, http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/932449/kagoshima20fireworks-0-2.html
"Fireworks factory blast toll rises to 10", 26.4.2003, http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/932449/kagoshima20fireworks-0-1.html
"Killer fireworks maker operated illegally for over decade", 4.3.2006, http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060304p2a00m0na015000c.html
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