Blogger’s Note: Whilst we were raising a family and attending endless protest marches in London (roughly between 2010-2021) – the Tory and LibDems Coalition murdered over 120,000 people with disabilities in the UK via sudden and deep cuts in welfare, housing, social services, and medical care (as confirmed by a 2016 UN investigation). From that day to this – nothing has changed. The Tories and LibDems simply “refused” to accept the decision of the UN (obviously taking a page out of the Zionist book or committing Crimes Against Humanity – and getting away with it). What is extraordinary is that whilst the bourgeois media (including the BBC and Guardian) purposely “ignored” what was happening in the UK and refused to report upon on it (remaining “silent” about the endless protests) – the same media quite happily covered the 2016 mass murder of 19 disabled people in Japan by a man who even died his hair “blonde” out of a sense of solidarity with Nazi Germany (he also wounded 25 others – 20 seriously)! As I missed this terrible story then, nine-years later I am placing the details on this blog. The murderer still sits on Japan’s Death Row – writing endless replies to fan-mail received from all over the world (mostly from male members of the far-right – and women who want to marry him) – stating his belief that he freed these people from a hopeless situation – whilst his actions saved the Japanese State billions in yen each year! Ironically, although Japan is a US colony, the US Authorities hypocritically insisted on “outlawing” gun ownership (and usage) throughout Japan post-1945. The US far-right is allows banging-on about gun-ownership being the foundation of Western freedom – whilst ignoring the fact that gun-ownership is prohibited in the UK, Eire, and most of Western Europe (including Greece – the cradle of Western civilisation). The same situation prevails in the US colonies of South Korea and the Philippines. The (White) US Authorities are apprehensive that their non-White subordinates might use such weaponry – if it were available throughout civil society (as is the case in the US) – to initiate a Socialist Revolution – and overthrow the American status quo. This is why the murderer resorted to a “knife” to commit his acts of deadly fascist hate. ACW (22.4.2025)
Japan knife attack: 19 killed at care centre in Sagamihara
- Published26 July 2016
Nineteen residents have been killed in a knife attack at a care centre for people with mental disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara.
Such attacks are extremely rare in Japan – the incident is the worst mass killing in decades.
Police have arrested a man who worked at the centre until February, and who turned himself into police after the attack.
He reportedly said he wanted people with disabilities to “disappear”.
The brutal killings have shocked Japan, one of the safest countries in the world.
Who was Japanese knife attacker?
“The lives of many innocent people were taken away and I am greatly shocked. We will make every effort to discover the facts and prevent a reoccurrence,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
Letter to politicians
The suspect has been named as 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu.
He sent letters to politicians in February in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people during a night shift, Kyodo news agency reports.
“My goal is a world in which the severely disabled can be euthanised, with their guardians’ consent, if they are unable to live at home and be active in society,” Uematsu wrote in a letter to the speaker of the lower house of parliament, obtained by Kyodo.
He was kept in hospital for almost two weeks before being released.
“You could say there were warning signs, but it’s difficult to say if this could have been prevented,” Kanagawa prefecture governor Yuji Koroiwa said.
How the attack unfolded
Uematsu drove to the Tsukui Yamayuri-en care facility, located about 50km (31 miles) from Tokyo, in the early hours of the morning, armed with several knives.
He entered one of the buildings by breaking a window at 02:10 local time (17:10 GMT), a prefectural health official said, and began attacking sleeping residents one by one in their rooms.
Staff called police around 20 minutes later to report what was happening.
The stabbing rampage lasted around 40 minute across two buildings, the Associated Press news agency reports. Uematsu’s 19 victims were aged between 19 and 70, Kyodo said, citing the Sagamihara City fire department.
Another 25 people were wounded, 20 seriously. Both men and women were reported to be among the dead.
Soon after the attack, Uematsu turned himself in at the Tsukui police station and reportedly admitted the attack, appearing to have driven himself there.
Pictures have emerged of the steering wheel of his car, stained with blood.
“When Uematsu turned himself in, he was found carrying kitchen knives and other types of knives stained with blood,” a Kanagawa official told reporters.
A neighbour described Uematsu as polite and pleasant.
“We didn’t know the darkness of his heart,” Akihiro Hasegawa, 73, told Reuters.
The facility, set in extensive grounds, had about 150 residents at the time of the attack, according to local officials. Nine staff members were on duty at the time.
One doctor told NHK: “The patients are very shocked and they cannot speak now.”
One woman who said she used to work at Tsukui Yamayuri-en told local media: “They are truly innocent people. What did they do?”
Officials have ruled out any link to terrorism.
Mass killings are extremely rare in Japan, in part because strict gun control laws means almost no-one has access to a firearm.
- 8 June 2008 – a man drove a truck into a packed shopping district at Akihabara in Tokyo, before climbing out and randomly stabbing people. Seven people died.
- 8 June 2001 – man with a history of mental illness stabbed eight children to death at an Osaka primary school in 2001.
- 20 March 1995 – 13 people die and thousands are made ill when members of a doomsday cult release sarin gas in the Tokyo subway.
Further Reading:
https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2016/july/19-disabled-people-murdered-japan
Disability Rights UK is shocked and alarmed at the news that 19 disabled people have been killed at a residential care centre in the Japanese city of Sagamihara.
It appears that the motive of the killed was hatred of disabled people. The attacker is reported to have told police that ‘he wanted disabled people to disappear’.
Stephen Brookes MBE, co-ordinator of the Disability Hate Crime Network says:
“Hate Crime is an abhorrence Disability Rights UK and the Disability Hate Crime Network are continually fighting, and the terrible acts of murder and serious injury committed last night in Japan against disabled people by someone who saw us as valueless is yet another proof we are living in a seriously disengaged world. Targeted inhumanity and mass death is almost an expected news item every morning.
Politicians and prospective leaders have weak, and in too many cases almost complicit attitudes to directed abuse insult and hate performed in their name or policies, particularly in unregulated social media posts; to be courteous and considerate to others is almost becoming a questionable action.
There is the reality of an increased level of violence becoming a media driven norm, where devaluation of life is ‘aided’ by PC games based on points and rewards for mass killing.
We need a real change at all levels in creating a set of values in which disabled people stand firm against the betrayal they face from disinterested society.”
Mon 16 Mar 2020 07.05 CET
Japanese man who killed 19 at centre for disabled sentenced to death
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Satoshi Uematsu fatally stabbed 19 people with disabilities at care facility where he once worked in 2016
A man who stabbed to death 19 residents at a care home in Japan for people with disabilities has been sentenced to death.
Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) facility in Sagamihara, south-west of Tokyo, carried out the attack in 2016, in which residents were targeted as they slept.
Twenty-four other residents and two care workers were injured in what is one of post-war Japan’s worst mass killings.
The 30-year-old admitted to the rampage during hearings at Yokohama district court but pleaded not guilty on the grounds of diminished responsibility, with his lawyers claiming he was suffering from a psychiatric disorder at the time of the attack.
He was sentenced to death by hanging.
Uematsu told the court last month he would not appeal against his sentence, no matter what it may be, newspaper Mainichi reported.
Police said Uematsu, described by neighbours as polite and helpful, was motivated by a deep-seated hatred of people with disabilities. He told police after his arrest that society would be better off if disabled people “disappeared”.
Prosecutors said he broke into the care facility in the early hours of 26 July 2016 and fatally stabbed 10 women and nine men, aged 19 to 70. He then drove to the nearest police station to hand himself in. Police found a bag inside his car containing knives and other sharp-edged tools, and the seats were covered in blood.
Uematsu had been forcibly hospitalised in early 2016 after police contacted him about a letter he had sent to the speaker of the lower house of Japan’s parliament urging the government to introduce euthanasia for people with disabilities. He was released after 12 days when doctors deemed he did not pose a threat to others.
After his arrest, Uematsu expressed no remorse, telling the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper that people with mental disabilities “have no heart”, and “there’s no point in living” for them. “I had to do it for the sake of society,” he said of the attack.
At the time, the Sagamihara attack was the worst mass killing in Japan since the second world war. An arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto last July killed 36 people.
Justin McCurry and Reuters contributed to this report
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/d7366827d0a74de3b5976bfca22c490a
植松聖死刑囚（35）の再審請求を東京高裁が認めない決定 神奈川・相模原市の障害者施設で入所者ら45人殺傷
2025年4月18日
2016年、神奈川県相模原市の障害者施設「津久井やまゆり園」で、入所者19人を殺害した罪などで死刑が確定した植松聖死刑囚（35）の再審＝裁判のやり直しの請求について、東京高裁が今月10日付けで、一審に続き、認めない決定をしました。
植松死刑囚側は最高裁に対し、不服を申し立てる特別抗告をしたということです。
植松死刑囚は、障害者施設「津久井やまゆり園」に侵入し入所者19人を殺害し、職員を含む26人に重軽傷を負わせたとして、殺人などの罪で死刑が確定しています。
植松死刑囚側は2022年に再審を請求していましたが、横浜地裁は再審を認めない決定をしたため、東京高裁に即時抗告していました。
Tokyo High Court rejects request for retrial for death row inmate Satoshi Uematsu (35) for murdering and wounding 45 residents at a facility for the disabled in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture
On the 10th of this month, the Tokyo High Court ruled against the request for a retrial for death row inmate Satoshi Uematsu (35), whose death sentence was finalized for the murders of 19 residents at the Tsukui Yamayuri En facility for disabled people in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 2016.
Uematsu's side has reportedly filed a special appeal with the Supreme Court to lodge a complaint. Uematsu's death sentence has been finalized for murder and other crimes for breaking into the Tsukui Yamayuri En facility for the disabled and killing 19 residents and injuring 26 people, including staff members. Uematsu's side had requested a retrial in 2022, but the Yokohama District Court decided not to grant a retrial, so he immediately appealed to the Tokyo High Court.
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