LA police probe hearth, vandalism at Japanese Buddhist temple
Authorities are investigating a vandalism and hearth at a Buddhist temple within the Little Tokyo part of downtown Los Angeles.
Surveillance video caught a person leaping the safety fences on the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple on Thursday evening, smashing a 12-foot-high glass window with a rock, yanking a pair of metallic lanterns off their concrete bases and lighting two picket lantern stands on hearth, the temple’s head priest advised the Los Angeles Instances.
“Your first emotions are these of disappointment and disappointment to see what occurred,” mentioned the Rev. Noriaki Ito. “I don’t know the motives, but it surely appears like we have been focused. The one reduction I discover is that nobody was harm.”
The incident comes amid an increase in hate crimes in opposition to Asian Individuals. The advocacy group Cease AAPI Hate mentioned it tracked 245 experiences of coronavirus-related discrimination in opposition to folks of Asian descent in Los Angeles County from March via December final yr. They included verbal harassment, bodily assaults or refusal of service at at enterprise.
Los Angeles Police Division Capt. Stacy Spell mentioned it was too early to label Thursday’s vandalism a hate crime as a result of the investigation is within the early levels.
Ito mentioned the vandalism is a part of a troubling sample of safety breaches on the 1 1/2-acre sanctuary over the last two weeks.
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The daddy of three kids who have been discovered lifeless in southwestern Japan has sustained severe accidents after leaping from a resort constructing.(NHK)
Feb 28 Authorities are investigating a vandalism and hearth at a Buddhist temple within the Little Tokyo part of downtown Los Angeles.
(Japan At present)
Authorities are investigating a vandalism and hearth at a Buddhist temple within the Little Tokyo part of downtown Los Angeles.(Japan At present)
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A 42-year-old man was killed after he jumped from a platform and hit an oncoming prepare at Motomachi Station on the JR Kobe Line in Kobe on Friday.(Japan At present)
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Firefighters are struggling to comprise a forest hearth that has burned for almost every week in Ashikaga Metropolis, north of Tokyo, with dry situations anticipated to proceed for a minimum of a number of extra days.(NHK)
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(Japan At present)
Police in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 65-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 57-year-old lady with whom he was in a relationship.(Japan At present)
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Two youngsters have been accused of pushing procuring carts down escalators at a shopping mall in Tokyo, with one in every of them posting the video of his act on social media.(NHK)
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Japan’s Emperor Naruhito turned 61 years previous on Tuesday.(NHK)
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(Japan At present)
A 40-year-old lady died after being buried by an avalanche whereas snowboarding at a ski resort within the Hakkoda Mountains close to Aomori Metropolis on Sunday.(Japan At present)
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Two highschool college students, aged 17 and 18, have been killed, whereas one other 17-year-old pupil and an 18-year-old have been injured after the automotive they have been in went off a freeway and dropped two meters right into a rice area in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, on Sunday morning.(Japan At present)
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Japan experiences suicides sooner and extra precisely than anyplace else on the earth. In contrast to most international locations, right here they’re compiled on the finish of each month. Throughout the Covid pandemic the numbers have advised a disturbing story. (BBC)
