Welcome to another edition of Time Suck Short Sucks. I'm Dan Cummins and today I'll be sharing the story of the Titzuyama massacre, the single deadliest massacre committed by a lone gunman in the history of Japan. On a warm spring night, 21 year old

Mutso Tui cut the power line that provided his small village of Kamo close to

Tetsuyama with electricity, leaving his neighbors in darkness.

And then armed with a modified shotgun, a katana sword, an axe, several daggers, and 200 rounds

of ammunition, he walked from home to home, butchering family after

beginning his bloodbath by cutting his own grandmother's head off with an axe.

And we can't blame heavy metal music for this mass shooting or violent video games.

We can't blame the proliferation of porn or any other supposed erosion of

traditional family values and the alleged moral decay of modern society because this didn't happen in the last few years or even in the last few decades.

It happened on May 21st, 1938.

Words and ideas can change. 1938. Your only chance is to leave with us.

Well, most people think of places where there's a lot of violence.

Where violent crime is on the rise and there's a sort of a might makes right mentality mentality I highly doubt they think of Japan at least not here in America

they don't for most Americans today I feel like the primary associations we have with

Japan is quality automobiles, awesome video games,

cool tech companies that make our computers, smartphones, video game consoles,

captivating movies, TV shows, and sushi.

Japan is the home of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Subaru,

also Nintendo, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic. It's where awesome horror movies, like the original

ring and the grudge are made. It's where awesome horror movies like the original ring and the grudge are made.

It's the birthplace of both anime and manga and is the home of the city that frequently

tops the list of the most futuristic cities on Earth. Tokyo.

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