[Sangetsu]

This type of thing seems to be happening more frequently in Japan nowadays.

My girlfriend and I went shopping for a new PC on Sunday. The Sofmap store in front of which the stabbings took place is usually where I go for things like PC accessories, camera equipment, and other electronics. But my gf and I wanted an HP, and the only place in Tokyo that sells HP at the moment is Big Camera, near Tokyo station.

We didn't hear about the stabbings until my gf's mother called and asked if we had gone to Akihabara. She was relieved to find out that we were in Toyosu (where we went shopping for curtains after ordering the pc), and then she told us about what happened. We were able to watch the news on our cellphones (cell phones here have 1seg, or tv tuners built into them).