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A fire believed to be arson broke out at the cake shop “Sunrise” in Motosu, Gifu Prefecture, leaving five people dead or injured. It has now emerged that the man in his 70s who died after being taken to hospital had not been invited to the gathering held there that day. The gathering was an occasional get-together of junior high school classmates centered on a woman (66) believed to be the shop’s owner, with attendees said to be mostly aged 64 to 65. Wondering why a man in his 70s — who apparently wasn’t invited — was even at the scene, 5ch users traded all kinds of theories about the age gap and the relationships involved.
In the fire believed to be arson at a combined cake shop and residence in Motosu, Gifu Prefecture, which left five people dead or injured, it has come to light that the man who died after being taken to hospital had not been invited to the gathering.
At around 9 p.m. two days ago, a fire broke out at the cake shop “Sunrise” in Motosu, Gifu Prefecture,
burning roughly 300 square meters of the two-story building.
Source: newsdig.tbs.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
They're not even the same age — what's going on here?
If they had invited him, maybe he wouldn't have set the fire.
But the gathering was just a class reunion, and this guy was a different age — he probably had a personal grudge against one of the attendees.
So why was there a 70-year-old guy there?
Even if he was in some kind of dispute, and even if he wanted to hurt whoever he was fighting with, what kind of situation makes someone barge into a gathering like that?
Doesn't make any sense.
Maybe he heard about the gathering, got turned away since "it's just a reunion this time," flew into a rage, and then committed seppuku (ritual suicide)?
Sounds like they had a business connection — apparently if you held a funeral through the suspect's business, you got 10% off cakes.
There was a part-time granny like that at my job — never explained what she was even angry about, just screamed and ranted.
That's probably why that generation has so many conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers.
Beloved cake shop leaves local residents shocked, "It's devastating" — Gifu fire that killed 3 may have been a crime
https://www.sankei.com/article/20260906-76BMHQJMZZNHFBZXQFGBI5ANWU/
The cake shop "Sunrise" in Motosu, Gifu Prefecture, where the fire broke out, was beloved by the community, and after closing time it regularly served as a spot for the woman owner's (66) junior high classmates to gather,
play mahjong, and sing karaoke. Neighbors expressed the depth of their shock, saying things like "It had no bad reputation" and "This is devastating."
The fire broke out after closing time, and it's believed the gathering was serving its usual social role as always.
A man (66) who was in the same grade as the owner in junior high said, "A lot of well-behaved people are in that group, and their love for their old school runs deep, so the community has held together."
He himself had only been invited to a mahjong session a few months earlier. "It's a complicated feeling — I can't even ask the people around me about the incident," he said, looking down.
This has gotta be a noise complaint gone wrong, right?
Now that you mention it, both mahjong and karaoke can get pretty loud.
I don't think he lived next door. The nearest funeral homes are about 1km and 1.5km from the cake shop — though they did have a business partnership.
They grow old into geezers without ever learning how to build relationships, and then die lol.
Women are just stronger.
The number of men and women who can't get married is the same.
The kind of guy the police awkwardly try to encourage with a "well… hang in there."
Is there a follow-up to this? (ノД`)・゜・。 (crying-face emoticon)
There are probably still mahjong addicts from that generation walking around today.
It used to get used for business entertaining too, back in the day — there must have been a huge number of people into it.
There's no one who plays mahjong without betting on it.
Why would a cake shop make you think "classy"?
How run-down is your own life, exactly?
Jagariko (chips): 184 yen
6P Cheese: 205 yen
Fluffy white bread: 116 yen
Taxi fare: 3,000 yen
"Kakitare" (slang for a kept mistress, from the Hitoshi Matsumoto scandal reports): priceless
A cake shop is downright classy compared to this — this is what a Hitoshi Matsumoto party looks like.
Gateball (a senior lawn sport) gatherings have had killings happen too — that's part of why people stopped playing it recently.
Apparently gateball, which used to be popular, fell out of fashion partly because fights kept breaking out.
Sounds like it soured because the crowd who just wanted to play for their health, win or lose, kept clashing with the old guys who had to win no matter what — lecturing everyone and blaming whoever messed up when they lost, killing the mood. That type gets side-eyed everywhere.
Gateball's rules themselves are basically built to destroy relationships.
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20160613/18/applinks/dd/41/j/o0416031213671879304.jpg
Below is the trend in postwar juvenile crime numbers — the late 1940s/early 1950s were many times worse than now.
Sure, a bigger population naturally means more cases, but even so, that's a lot.
Everyone, watch out for today's elderly!!
Violence against train station staff — people in their 60s and up are the most common offenders.
http://imgur.com/1yUw77n.gif
Fuji Funeral Services — Doll Memorial Festival
Sales corner: Sunrise — Cakes & Sweets
Background and Key Points of This Story
“Sunrise,” where the fire started, is believed to have served after closing time as a spot where a woman (66) thought to be the owner and her junior high classmates gathered to play mahjong and sing karaoke, and it’s likely a similar gathering was underway that day too. While the core attendees are said to have been 64 to 65 years old, the man who died was around 70 — not matching the gathering’s target age group. Because of this age gap, discussion on the thread centered on the possibility that the man wasn’t actually meant to be there and ended up at the scene through some other circumstance. Peripheral details, such as a business partnership with a funeral company, have also surfaced, but why the man was present and the specifics of his relationship with the perpetrator have not been clarified in reporting, and the motive for the incident has not been established as fact at this stage of the investigation. Worth noting that this is a topic where speculation tends to run ahead of confirmed facts.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[thread title garbled by an encoding error in the source] [Hitzeschleier].”
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