2-Channeler Arrested For Bomb Threat Against Soka Gakkai
A 43-year-old librarian has been arrested for posting bomb threats on 2-channel:
“Soka Gakkai members kept on trying to get me to vote for their favored election candidates,” he was quoted as telling investigators. “I wanted to get back at them.”
At around 10:25 p.m. on April 2, Kamikawauchi posted a message on the Ni-Channeru (2-Channel) bulletin board saying, “I’m going to blow up the Soka Gakkai’s Sakai-Ikeda Auditorium in Osaka on April 4,” Tokyo police said.
His bomb threat forced Soka Gakkai employees to go on alert, thereby obstructing business, according to investigators.
Investigators suspect that he also put up a message on the Internet threatening to blow up Zenkoji Temple in Nagano after the Olympic torch relay organizing committing scrapped its plan to use the temple as the starting point for the relay at its request.
