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Japanese Police Officer Pushed in Front of Train, 2 Chinese Men Arrested

Ugly news out of Tokyo:

A police officer was hit by a train at Ochanomizu station in Tokyo last night, after being pushed down onto the tracks by 2 Chinese men. Apparently there was some shouting between the officer and men, starting a scuffle that ended in the officer falling off the platform and being hit by an oncoming train. The collision severed one of the officer’s legs and left him with other serious injuries. At the time of this posting, the officer was still in critical condition.

The Chinese men, who will likely be charged with attempted murder, have claimed that they had no intention of pushing the officer onto the tracks.

20 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - December 23, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Categories: Foreigners in Japan Tags: china, chinese, crime, japan, japanese, news, police, train

annie

Are the Chinese illegal or legal immigrants? Will they be sent back to China? I hope they will be put in jail for a good amount of time.

http://www.japanprobe.com James

Other media sources are reporting the name of the company that employs them, so I’d guess they are legal immigrants.
zaciroth

I agree….that life or worse.

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Barbarity…
shazzb0t

In before the PRC comments on this situation and brings up the hurt feelings of the Chinese people.
Eloy

yep they didn’t intend to fight with the officer either.
Marcus

Is it really necessary to mention their ethnicity, thereby emphasizing it? I wouldn’t dream of calling Japan Probe racist, but I always react when I see Japanese newspapers do the same thing.

Aki

Japanese newspapers do not mention one’s ethnicity. What mentioned in the news report is their nationality. When Japanese commit a crime in a foreign country, his/her nationality is reported in local media. I don’t think it’s racism.

missy-j

This article seems to over emphasize the fact that the 2 men were chinese.

James

The Japanese news media is focusing on their nationality (using headlines such as 警官突き落とされ重傷、中国人ら逮捕), and I am translating one of their reports. Personally, I think mentioning they are Chinese is very important, since much of this blog’s focus is on foreigners in Japan and how they are depicted by the Japanese media.

shazzb0t

Not to mention the fact that just about every week some crazy Chinese person pushes a cop onto the rails in Japan.

The fact that they are Chinese has everything to do with this as most Japanese would never think about arguing with much less scuffling with a police officer. It isn’t inconsequential.
http://sleepytako.blogspot.com David

If it were an American or European that did it that fact would be in the headline too.

404error

someone run over by a train is pretty nasty, seen twice one direct hit and one at the hospital in the morgue where i worked for 9months.

those “pushers” need some serious punishment
frank

im from hk and i find chinese ppl are disgracin us ok we had d fakes,hating and now this bs?

hongfire

lol so much hate on china it’s funny. a crazy chinese pushes a japanese cop onto the rails every week? wow, that’s some serious stuff you’re smoking there buddy!
and frank, you know, hong kong is officially a part of china, a part of the big “race of disgrace”, as you would call it. aren’t you grateful that the brits civilized you guy? otherwise you’d still be living in the twilight zone with the rest of them.

http://www.killerjo.net Zen

Hkers generally never seen Taiwanese, Macauese and overseas Chinese (b4 the Cultural Revolution) disgrace. A decade of Stalinist Mind raping is enough to destroy the morals and norms of China’s traditional society.

And the root of the rise of Communism in China actually link to Western Imperialism (including Japan); so no, we do not thank UK. After all, they are the asshole for stealing us from Republic of China (the weak but nice parent) after ww2 and handing us back to Communist bastard in PRC (the strong but terrible parent) just so they can save their own economy. Yet, it is undeniable that British Colonial rule in Hk did allow the city to blossomed.

Ling

I’m also Chinese, and I’m with Frank – sometimes the actions of other Chinese in foreign countries make me feel ashamed of my nationality. Because of those two Chinese men, the police officer is permanently crippled. They give Chinese people a bad image, and should be severely punished for their actions.

Mark

A couple of points to note:

1. The two Chinese men were not illegal aliens nor laborers. One was a company executive and the other an employee.

2. The police officer was off-duty, not in uniform, and according to recent news reports, he was also intoxicated. It happened around 11:30 PM.

3. There is a good chance that the two men had no idea he was an off-duty police officer.

4. The two men indicated the off-duty police officer was angered by the two men because they were supposedly talking too loudly. Whether they were really talking ‘too loudly’ or ‘too loudly in Chinese, we don’t know. In any event, the off-duty officer started using physical force, grabbed one of the men and was pushed away. And, he apparently fell upon the tracks.

I’ll be interested in hearing more details on this case.

Since many have jumped to certain conclusions based on the fact that the two accused were Chinese, let me offer some of my own biased guesses:

A few times, I’ve been verbally and physically accosted by drunk Japanese men on the train who took offense at one or more of the following: 1) I am white 2) I was speaking English 3) I was with a Japanese gf I’m not saying that’s what happened, but it certainly is not hard for me to imagine how a drunk middle-aged off-duty Japanese cop might take offense and umbrage at two Chinese chatting away in their gutter language in HIS Nippon. It’s certainly happened to me – but fortunately no one got hurt. Yet.
evow

Those two Chinese probably received some subtle racial mistreatment by the Japanese cops. Racism isn’t necessarily spoken, but it’s often implied. Japanese are the masters of subtly mistreating other Asians feel like crap. Those large number of Koreans who got ended up in Japan due to the war, so far has been living in a nightmare environment, never will be considered a part of their society.

One other thing I feel so sick about Japan is that, they sure like to brown-nose USA. And of course, they are beginning to shake their asses to Chinese now that China is a recognizable force.

I will never trust Japan!

Aki

I have several Korean friends. I don’t think they are living in a nightmare environment.

I heard that the next Korean President was born in Osaka. I hope that the relationship between the two countries will be improved during his term, since he probably would not have prejudice against Japanese.

The following is just for information. The reason Koreans living in Japan came to Japan was not due to the war. In 1959, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan conducted a research on the Korean residents. The reseach showed that there were about 610,000 Koreans in Japan at the time and that, of the 610,000 Koreans, only 245 people had come to Japan as drafted workers during the war. Majority of drafted workers returned to Korea after the war by order of GHQ. Remaining people were those who came to Japan as migrant workers with their free will. There were about 1,000,000 Korean migrant workers in Japan in 1939 that was two years before the start of the war.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/239120/-245-
(Asahi shimbun; July 13, 1959)

Japanese Police Officer Pushed in Front of Train, 2 Chinese Men Arrested

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