The 2010 Habikino shooting was a deadly spree shooting which occurred at a drinking establishment located just south of Eganoshō Station in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan on 12 January 2010.
| 2010 Habikino shooting | |
|---|---|
 Location of Habikino in Osaka | |
| Location | Iichan bar, Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
| Date | 12 January 2010 20:00 JST (UTC+09:00) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder-suicide |
| Weapons | Rifle[1] |
| Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrator | Yasuhisa Sugiura |
The attack was carried out by 49-year-old Yasuhisa Sugiura (Japanese: 杉浦 泰久[1]). Three people, including the gunman's mother-in-law, were shot dead before the perpetrator committed suicide.[2]
Shooting incidents such as these are rare in Japan.[3][4][5]
The perpetrator
Yasuhisa Sugiura, 49, was a government employee in Japan's second-largest city Osaka. According to police, he was involved in a "troubled marriage" with a 48-year-old woman.[6]
Shooting
On 12 January 2010, Sugiura went to the Ii-chan bar to discuss a divorce with his mother-in-law, 66-year-old Yoshiko Tanaka (Japanese: 田中 美子[1]), who would subsequently become one of his victims.[6][7] The bar was open for business and had other customers inside; Sugiura's wife was possibly one of them. Sugiura then departed. Sugiura came back armed with a rifle and opened fire at approximately 20:00 that evening, killing three people. Two of Sugiura's targets — the mother-in-law and a 23-year-old bar employee named Tatsuya Fukui (Japanese: 福井 達也[1]) — died immediately; a third, 49-year-old bar landlord Hiroto Uehara (Japanese: 上原 浩人[1]), died shortly thereafter.[7] Witnesses described the rifle shots as "three or four blunt bangs"; a pool of blood was left in front of the bar.[6]
Sugiura then exited the bar and shot himself in the abdomen, killing himself.[6]