Wait wait wait, I know what’s going on here. Metallic objects have become sentient and are very angry at us. We must appease them, and right quick.

Someone died in Mie! This definitely means that the world is ending sometime soon. Expect plates to shift and bowls to be smoked. It happened kind of close to where I’m living now so I have vowed to live a pope-like existence (i.e. riding in a me-mobile and allowing my dog to sexually harass child dogs) so that I’m not next to be cremated. If you are a link adverse individual read the article below.

Foreigner stabbed to death at apartment, Filipino man faces arrest

TSU, Mie — A foreign man was stabbed to death at an apartment in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, law enforcers said. They are seeking an arrest warrant for a Filipino man in custody.

According to police, at around 7:50 p.m. on Sunday, a foreign-looking man came to a police box in Suzuka city, Mie Prefecture, saying there had been a fight in the apartment next to his and a man was lying in the corridor outside.

Police went to the apartment and found a man in his 40s to 50s lying in the corridor with stab wounds to his left abdomen and chest. The wounded man, also a foreigner, was taken to the hospital but confirmed dead. No weapon was found.

Investigative sources say that prefectural police questioned a Filipino man in his 50s who lived in the apartment building and had fled but was found nearby, and are now seeking a warrant for his arrest.

According to investigators and local residents, the victim was not a resident of the apartment complex, but was an acquaintance of the man now in police custody. From around 10 a.m. on the day of the murder, several foreigners had apparently gathered in the room to drink, and at around 7:30 p.m., when a neighbor who had heard quarreling stepped out into the hallway, the victim was found lying on the ground. An autopsy is being performed to determine the exact cause of death.

The apartment, about 1.5 kilometers southeast of Hiratacho station on the Kintetsu Suzuka line, is located near an auto-related factory. According to a former resident of the apartment building, some 80 percent of its residents were foreigners.

(Mainichi Japan) April 19, 2010