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huayu News According to Oriental News, citing Sankei News on August 25, recently, many private universities such as Ritsumadang University, Kyoto University, and Ryuga University received threatening emails in Kyoto, Japan. The email claimed that it would "want to blow up this school" and predicted that it would blow up many schools, including Ritsumekan University, at 12:7 on the 26th. After consultation with the Kyoto Prefecture Police, the university closed the two campuses of Suzaku and Iga on the 26th and Ritsumekan Primary School. Students and school staff are strictly prohibited from entering until the campus is confirmed to be safe.
Similar emails were also sent to Ryukyu University, Kyoto Industrial University and Kyoto Tachikan University, each of which has strengthened campus security and patrols and prohibited students from entering the campus.
Before that, Osaka University also received a threatening email to blow up the school at 16:33 on August 25. The school took the incident seriously as soon as possible and urgently notified students to protect their lives and safety.
Kyoto Prefecture Police Headquarters
However, such incidents of intimidation emails are not isolated cases. Since late June this year, many universities across Japan have become the targets of "crime previews" about such explosions and arson, and various intimidation emails have emerged one after another. Since its first occurrence, crime notification emails sent to universities or town halls and posts on online bulletin boards have appeared almost every day.
Although no actual explosion or arson has occurred so far, the intimidated universities are considering the safety of life of all city students and can only prohibit people from entering the school in the date and time period mentioned in the email. Moreover, as the COVID-19 epidemic in Japan has not improved for a long time, various teaching affairs in the school can be said to have been hit again.
It is not just schools that are threatened. On the morning of July 15, Chongrenji, a Judo sect in Kyoto City, also received a similar threatening email. Such incidents have emerged one after another in recent years, which has brought great inconvenience and pressure to all sectors of society. Although in most cases it is just a bluff, it is not ruled out that students will take revenge on school and company employees to take revenge on society. This year, as the epidemic situation in Japan has not improved for a long time, potential social conflicts have been further intensified.
During the epidemic, many universities were already blocking campuses, and even entering the library to study became difficult. Now that the intimidation emails have caused chaos, it is almost impossible to study in school. A male college student who was looking for a job said angrily: "Originally, he could not work because of the epidemic, and the school could not go to. Now there is such a thing, don't joke! I hope the police will arrest the prisoner quickly and keep him away from society! Otherwise, I really can't feel at ease."
School and temple statistics tables that have been threatened by emails since late June
Photo source: Twitter
Maybe they have experienced too many similar intimidation incidents, but the school has not suffered any substantial damage. Most Japanese students feel like they have heard too many rumors of "The Wolf is Coming" and don't take it to heart.
@Le Parisienn: All major universities in Kyoto have received threatening emails. What a grudge?
@June 1: What? Is it popular to write intimidation letters to universities?
@シエラ: My school also received a threat message (laughs)
@スカイ: Hey, today is Osaka school received a threat email, tomorrow is a university in Kyoto... This schedule is too full, right?
@ドキンちゃん: Today our school also received a threat letter, which made me work overtime until the day...
@めすらん: Ritsuki University, Shizuka University, and Kyoto Industrial University have all received it, but only our school has not received it... Although it is a good thing to not receive the threat, I always feel that our school is being excluded.
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@Red Peacock: The school received a threatening email (laughs)
@Ryoliang: Finally, our school also received it.
@そそそった: Our school has received threatening emails (laughs)
Professor Masako Morii of Kobe University in Japan pointed out that the key reason for frequent cases is that the cost of crime is too low: "Just write a few lines of email on your phone, you will lose your mind in an instant, and press the send button when you feel hot, so that you can easily commit a crime." Professor Masako Morii believes that the most effective solution to such cases is to quickly arrest the criminal as soon as the case occurs, and then give a heavy punishment.
In Japan, the punishment for such intimidation emails is usually arrested for "obstructing public service" (Japanese: Powerful business obstruction) and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and a fine of not more than 300,000 yen (about 19,400 yuan). Even for the crime of theft, they will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 10 years and fined of not less than 500,000 yen (about 32,000 yuan). Even shoplifting will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 10 years. At the same time, for example, the extremely harmful arson crime, setting fires on buildings where people live or public transportation facilities they take will cause great losses to people's lives and public property. Such crimes usually result in death sentences, life imprisonment or more than five years of fixed-term imprisonment.
However, the threatening emails claiming to install bombs can be called terrorist acts, and the turmoil and uneasiness brought to society are immeasurable. Professor Masako Morii called on Japan to strengthen legislation to increase the degree of punishment for such intimidation crimes to reduce the recurrence of such incidents. (Original title: Japanese colleges and universities frequently threaten emails, what is the reason behind it?)
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