Tokyo Massacre! Seven Dead, 20 more wounded!

Tomohiro Kato, a young Japanese Man of 25 years old, Killed 7 in down town Tokyo last Sunday and wounded about 20 more with his Knifes and rental truck in a pedestrian area closed to traffic every Week End! 

In Japan where crime rate is the lowest among all Industrialized Countries this is more than just news of a Man going a wall, it is a national disaster that is shaking the Country of the rising sun with a great chock wave as an aftermath.

News such as this seems almost normal coming from the USA, how ever here it is still a very rare occurrence, that lives every one in total disbelieve and chock and asking many question, some of them maybe to late ad others if followed up on could help avoiding such a tragedy from ever happening again.

Who was Tomohiro Kato and what could have driven him to commit such a horrendous crime? This is what every one seems to ask and wonder about. However maybe the question should be how come our Industrialized Societies bread such behaviour, is it mainly an individuals problem or rather a hole social dilemma caused by the destruction of our Family structures and the ever lacking social responsibility in our Societies?!

Tomohiro Kato was a young Man that went to a good High School and was an average student, never engaging in any form of higher education nor apprentice ship of any kind. A loner, suffering from physical torments such as migraines and depressions. This alone however could not explain his actions nor justify them or excuse them in any way, or people such as Einstein would have committed similar crimes instead of becoming a world renowned genius!

As Eberhard Umbach, a Sociology Professor and researcher from the University of Gottigen in Germany, puts it; The problem is much deeper than just comic books or violent movies... the heart of Society has been destroyed over the past 60 years and this being the Family structures them self. We have been propagating the so called American Way of life around the World, teaching individualism and ego centrism over social responsibilities and family values.

People such as Tomorhiro Kato have no social net work any longer to hold on to and find them self isolated, driving them into irrational thinking and erratic actions with selfdestructive consequences and suicidal ambition. A form of desperate seek for love and recognition in a very perverse way that is!

Our 24/7 society leave no room for the Family any longer, nor for any form of social bonding since we cannot ever stop, having no time left for friends and family to even meet or gather on a regular basses such as Sundays in Church or the Temple. Even the Family meals have been disrupted due to a never ending work day leaving various family members working at hours that would have been unthinkable only a generation ago.

It is to late for Tomohiro Kato and his victims as well as the victims Families. Never the less it is not to late to change for us remaining and to learn from this, taking a serious look at our Societies and making the necessary changes to avoid such a tragedy from ever happening again.

One step may be to make new legislation to abolish the 24/7 system in place and promoting Family values again as well as Social values rather than individualism and egocentrism.

The days of the American way of life are over and have deeply mislead us. We need to rediscover our cultures and traditions as well as our dicipline, respect and solidarity. Or well will have to face many more such tragic incidences.

Japan has a much better chance to master all this than other Nations since much of its social structure and Family values are still in place, other Nations have all ready lost most of there traditions and Family structures making it much harder to restructure into the right direction. In the end we are all responsible t some extend of does massacres and weather they may acure again or not! Harcher laws will certainly not help at all.

How many more will have to die due to such tragedies before we finally wake up and tackle the problems at hand?