Miscellaneous
July 26th 2021 marks the five year anniversary of what is now often referred to as the ‘Sagamihara Stabbings’, when in the early hours of July 26th 2016, Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the ‘Tsukui Yamayuri En’ or ‘Tsukui Lily Garden’ care home for people with disabilities, killed 19 residents with disabilities and injured at least 26 others. Uematsu, who talked about how people with disabilities could cause ‘only misery’. was later sentenced to death by the Yokohama District Court.