When a 2-ton truck barrels into a crowded market in Japan, no one expected it to be because a 25 year old man felt lonely. This week Natalia tells us the story of the 2008 Akihabara Massacre. We'll be discussing how isolation affects the human mind in dangerous ways. Natalia would also like to state for the record that she has never eaten a guinea pig and never will. Sources Ozbourne, S.A. “Man Plowed Truck into Pedestrians Then Went on Stabbing Spree.” Medium, Medium, 10 Nov. 2020, https://s-a-ozbourne.medium.com/man-plowed-truck-into-pedestrians-then-went-on-stabbing-spree-f7d57d658103. Kihara, Maki. “Victims of Street Massacre in Tokyo's Akihabara Area Remembered on 14th Anniv. of Attack.” The Mainichi, Tokyo City News Department, 8 June 2022, https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220608/p2a/00m/0na/020000c. “2008 Akihabara Massacre.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Dec. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Akihabara_massacre. Mao, Frances. “Tomohiro Kato: Japan Executes Akihabara Mass Murderer, Say Reports.” BBC News, BBC, 26 July 2022, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62301427. AFP-JIJI, KYODO. “Japan Executes Akihabara Rampage Attacker, 14 Years On.” The Japan Times, 26 July 2022, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/26/national/crime-legal/tomohiro-kato-akihabara-execution/. Howe, Neil. “Millennials and the Loneliness Epidemic.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 30 June 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2019/05/03/millennials-and-the-loneliness-epidemic/?sh=68046aa27676. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tildeathdouspartpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tildeathdouspartpodcast/support
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