Japanese streamer stabbed 30 times in public after not returning ‘borrowed’ money to viewer

[Burned Verses]

Japanese Influencer Murdered While Livestreaming on the Street

More than 6,000 people watched as a man stabbed Airi Sato in the head.

gizmodo.com

Japanese influencer Airi Sato was live streaming a series of train rides when she was murdered. More than 6,000 people had tuned into Sato riding the rails on March 11. Just before 10 am, local time, she screamed. The phone fell to the ground. A man loomed into frame.

“Are you dead yet?” he asked.

The man was Kenji Takano, a 42-year-old follower of Sato. The attack happened near Takadanobaba Station, a station that links commercial districts in Tokyo. Sato had announced plans to travel through Tokyo’s major train systems on her channel and was livestreaming the trip to her followers.

Takano told police that he did it because she owed him money. Sato worked at a restaurant where the man regularly ate. “I managed to raise funds with my savings and consumer loans and lent Sato more than 2 million yen (about $13,500) for living and other expenses. I made up my mind to attack her as she wouldn’t give my money back,” he said. According to the Mainichi, he’d tried to talk to the police about getting his money back from her last year.

Sato streamed under the pseudonym Ai Mogami, which is also the name of a voice actress in Japan. The shared name led to confusion in the aftermath of the crime as multiple outlets reported it was the voice actress who had been murdered and shared pictures of her online.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

なんてこった!

 

[Jaguar93]

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Damn. If he is telling the truth that's crazy. These women trying to hustle these men for money gonna learn.

 

[The Pledge]

I don't condone what he did, but I definitely understand.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

 

[W.I.Z.E.]

But now he's not getting the money and will most likely do life.

 

[Commish]

Kenji gonna live a rough life living in a Japanese prison.

Saw a documentary on Japanese prisons and they are really strict. Up there with Russian prisons.

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

Not every guy is wired on sane, you fukk with the wrong one and you are going to find out the hard way. I watched that entire video all 15 minutes of it and wow.

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Japanese Influencer Murdered While Livestreaming on the Street

More than 6,000 people watched as a man stabbed Airi Sato in the head.

gizmodo.com

#IYKYK

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

In public and nobody intervened

Disgraceful

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

He shouldn't have done it, but I understand.

 

[feelosofer]

Yeah. Dude was ok with spending life in jail to send a message. Pay your debts.

 

[General Mills]

The phone fell to the ground. A man loomed into frame.

“Are you dead yet?” he asked.