2010 Habikino shooting

{{Infobox civilian attack

| title = 2010 Habikino shooting

| image = Habikino in Osaka Prefecture Ja.svg

| caption = Location of Habikino in Osaka

| location = Iichan bar, Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

| coordinates =

| date = 12 January 2010

| time = 20:00 JST

| timezone = UTC+09:00

| type = Mass shooting, murder-suicide

| fatalities = 4 (including the perpetrator)

| injuries = 0

| perp = Yasuhisa Sugiura

| weapons = Rifle{{cite news|url=http://www.asahi.com/kansai/news/OSK201001150014.html |title=被害者３人の通夜、葬儀営まれる羽曳野発砲事件 |date=15 January 2010 | publisher=Asahi Shimbun |url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130012928/http://www.asahi.com/kansai/news/OSK201001150014.html |archive-date=30 January 2010 |access-date=14 January 2020}}

}}

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.

The attack was carried out by 49-year-old Yasuhisa Sugiura ({{langx|ja|杉浦泰久|links=no}}). Three people, including the gunman's mother-in-law, were shot dead before the perpetrator committed suicide.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8454625.stm|title=Deadly shooting at bar in western Japan|date=12 January 2010|access-date=12 January 2010|publisher=BBC}}

Shooting incidents such as these are rare in Japan.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-01/12/content_9310138.htm|title=2 dead, 2 hurt after bar shooting spree in Japan|date=12 January 2010|access-date=12 January 2010|newspaper=China Daily}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Japan-gunman-kills-himself-after-shooting-two-people-police-/articleshow/5438654.cms|title=Japan gunman kills himself after shooting two people: police|date=13 January 2010|access-date=12 January 2010|newspaper=The Times of India}}{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9541144|title=Gunman Kills 2, Wounds 1 in Japanese Bar Shooting|date=12 January 2010|access-date=12 January 2010|work=ABC News}}

The perpetrator

Yasuhisa Sugiura (born 1960), 49, was a longtime resident of Habikino and 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.{{cite news|url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100113p2a00m0na008000c.html |title=Man guns down 3 people in Osaka bar, commits suicide |date=13 January 2010 |access-date=13 January 2010 |publisher=The Mainichi Daily News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116113504/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100113p2a00m0na008000c.html |archive-date=January 16, 2010 }}

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 ({{langx|ja|田中美子|links=no}}), who would subsequently become one of his victims.{{cite news |date=14 January 2010 |title=Gunman kills three in bar, self |newspaper=The Japan Times |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100114a6.html |access-date=13 January 2010 |archive-date=5 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605230933/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100114a6.html |url-status=dead }} 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 ({{langx|ja|福井達也|links=no}}) — died immediately; a third, 49-year-old bar landlord Hiroto Uehara ({{langx|ja|上原浩人|links=no}}), died shortly thereafter. Witnesses described the rifle shots as "three or four blunt bangs"; a pool of blood was left in front of the bar.

Sugiura then exited the bar and shot himself in the abdomen, killing himself.