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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa prays in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 26, 2022, the sixth anniversary of a stabbing rampage there by a former care worker that killed 19 residents.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

A ceremony is held at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally impaired people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, on July 26, 2022, in memory of the 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage by a former care worker exactly six years ago.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

Flowers are placed on July 26, 2022, at a monument at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally impaired people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage by a former care worker exactly six years ago.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

Flowers are placed on July 26, 2022, at a monument at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally impaired people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage by a former care worker exactly six years ago.

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Monument for 2016 mass murder victims completed

Photo taken on March 26, 2022, shows a monument built at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally disabled people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in the July 2016 stabbing rampage by a former care worker.

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Monument for 2016 mass murder victims completed

Photo taken on March 26, 2022, shows a monument built at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally disabled people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in the July 2016 stabbing rampage by a former care worker.

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1 year on, Sagamihara massacre trial still unlikely to start soon

Photo taken on July 6, 2017, shows the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a facility to accommodate intellectually disabled people, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. It is where former worker Satoshi Uematsu fatally stabbed 19 intellectually disabled residents in July 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death sentence for man over 2016 care home mass murder

Photo taken March 16, 2020, shows Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, where a man killed 19 residents and injured 26 others in a stabbing rampage in July 2016. The Yokohama District Court sentenced Satoshi Uematsu to death the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death sentence for man over 2016 care home mass murder

People pray in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, on March 16, 2020, where a man killed 19 residents and injured 26 others in a stabbing rampage in July 2016. The Yokohama District Court sentenced Satoshi Uematsu to death the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death sentence for man over 2016 care home mass murder

People pray in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, on March 16, 2020, where a man killed 19 residents and injured 26 others in a stabbing rampage in July 2016. The Yokohama District Court sentenced Satoshi Uematsu to death the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death sentence for man over 2016 care home mass murder

People pray in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, on March 16, 2020, where a man killed 19 residents and injured 26 others in a stabbing rampage in July 2016. The Yokohama District Court sentenced Satoshi Uematsu to death the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Site of 2016 stabbing rampage in Japan

File photo taken July 26, 2016, shows an aerial view of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara near Tokyo, where 19 residents were killed and dozens more injured in a stabbing rampage that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 years since mass murder at Japanese care home

An altar is set up in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled, currently undergoing renovation in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 26, 2019, the third anniversary of a stabbing rampage in which a former care worker killed 19 residents and injured 26 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 years since mass murder at Japanese care home

An altar is set up in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled, currently undergoing reconstruction in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 26, 2019, the third anniversary of a stabbing rampage in which a former care worker killed 19 residents and injured 26 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 years since mass murder at Japanese care home

An altar is set up in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled, currently undergoing reconstruction in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 26, 2019, the third anniversary of a stabbing rampage in which a former care worker killed 19 residents and injured 26 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 years since mass murder at Japanese care home

Flowers are seen placed on an altar set up at Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 26, 2019, the third anniversary of a stabbing rampage in which a former care worker killed 19 residents and injured 26 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 years since mass murder at Japanese care home

Kaoru Irikura (R), head of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, lays flowers on an altar set up at the facility on July 26, 2019, the third anniversary of a stabbing rampage in which a former care worker killed 19 residents and injured 26 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 years since mass murder at Japanese care home

Kaoru Irikura (front R), head of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, prays in front of an altar set up at the facility on July 26, 2019, the third anniversary of a stabbing rampage in which a former care worker killed 19 residents and injured 26 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2nd anniversary of mass murder at care home

Photo taken on July 26, 2018 shows Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara near Tokyo, where a fatal stabbing rampage occurred two years ago, leaving 19 residents dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2nd anniversary of mass murder at care home

Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa prays at a cenotaph set up at Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara near Tokyo, for the victims of a fatal stabbing rampage that occurred there two years ago, leaving 19 residents dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2nd anniversary of mass murder at care home

Photo taken on July 26, 2018 shows Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara near Tokyo, where a fatal stabbing rampage occurred two years ago, leaving 19 residents dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2nd anniversary of mass murder at care home

Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa offers flowers at a cenotaph set up at Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara near Tokyo, for the victims of a fatal stabbing rampage that occurred there two years ago, leaving 19 residents dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2nd anniversary of mass murder at care home

Kazuma Otsuki (R), who heads the group formed by bereaved families of a fatal stabbing rampage at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for the mentally disabled near Tokyo, meets the press at the facility along with the home's head Kaoru Irikura (L) on July 26, 2018, two years after the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

A man in a wheelchair lays flowers at the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

Kaoru Irikura (2nd from R), chief of the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, lays flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

Kaoru Irikura, chief of the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, meets with reporters on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

Kaoru Irikura (C), chief of the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, observes a moment of silence on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

Kaoru Irikura (2nd from R), chief of the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, observes a moment of silence on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st anniv. of mass murder at Sagamihara care facility

People visit the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, to lay flowers on July 26, 2017, marking the first anniversary of the killing of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Care facility residents transferred following stabbing rampage

Staff at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, see off its residents on April 5, 2017, as they are transferred to another facility. After 19 mentally disabled people were killed there in July 2016, the facility will be demolished. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sagamihara care facility removes table for offered flowers

People remove a table for flowers on Dec. 26, 2016, that was set up in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En mental care facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, where 19 residents were killed in a stabbing rampage five months earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sagamihara care facility removes table for offered flowers

People remove a table for flowers on Dec. 26, 2016, that was set up in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En mental care facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, where 19 residents were killed in a stabbing rampage five months earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sagamihara care facility removes stand for offered flowers

Nobuko Mikata (seated in a wheelchair) sings a song on Dec. 26, 2016, that she wrote for 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage five months earlier at the Tsukui Yamayuri En mental care facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo. A table for offered flowers was removed from the front of the facility the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1 month since mass murder at care facility

Photo taken Aug. 26, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in the city of Sagamihara, near Tokyo, where 19 people were killed and 27 others injured by an intruder one month ago. Local authorities are considering a rebuilding or renovation of the facility in consideration of psychological burdens of its residents and staff. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1 month since mass murder at care facility

Photo taken Aug. 26, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care facility in the city of Sagamihara, near Tokyo, where 19 people were killed and 27 others injured by an intruder one month ago. Local authorities are considering a rebuilding or renovation of the facility in consideration of psychological burdens of its residents and staff. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Care facility attacker likely brought multiple knives, hammers

Visitors pray in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En residential care facility in Sagamihara, Japan, on July 29, 2016, for people killed in a recent stabbing rampage. The alleged perpetrator seems to have thoroughly planned the attack, apparently bringing with him at least five knives, two hammers and other tools, according to investigative sources. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Care facility attacker likely brought multiple knives, hammers

Visitors pray in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En residential care facility in Sagamihara, Japan, on July 29, 2016, for people killed in a recent stabbing rampage. The alleged perpetrator seems to have thoroughly planned the attack, apparently bringing with him at least five knives, two hammers and other tools, according to investigative sources. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan mourns stabbing rampage victims

Visitors put their hands together in prayer on July 28, 2016, in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En residential care facility in Sagamihara, Japan, where 19 people were killed two days earlier in a stabbing rampage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police continue to investigate stabbing rampage

A police vehicle enters the Tsukui Yamayuri En, a mental care facility and the site of a stabbing rampage, in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, on July 28, 2016. The man arrested over the rampage in which 19 people were killed two days earlier has told police that he wanted to "save" those with multiple disabilities, according to investigative sources. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Care facility, site of stabbing rampage in Japan

Investigators on July 27, 2016, examine Tsukui Yamayuri En, the mental health facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, where 19 people were killed the previous day in one of the worst mass killings in postwar Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Care facility, site of stabbing rampage in Japan

Photo taken July 27, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tsukui Yamayuri En, the mental health care facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, where 19 people were killed the previous day in one of the worst mass killings in postwar Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Care facility, site of stabbing rampage in Japan

Photo taken July 27, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tsukui Yamayuri En, the mental health care facility in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, where 19 people were killed the previous day in one of the worst mass killings in postwar Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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19 killed in stabbing rampage at care facility in Japan, man arrested

Photo shows a letter written by Satoshi Uematsu who killed 19 residents by knife at the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden), a mental health care facility in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 26, 2016. Uematsu visited the official residence of House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima in Tokyo in mid-February and sought to hand it to him. The letter says "I am able to kill a total of 470 disabled people." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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19 killed in stabbing rampage at care facility in Japan, man arrested

Police officers examine a building of the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden), a mental health care facility in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 26, 2016, after 19 residents, ranging in age from 19 to 70, were killed by knife by Satoshi Uematsu, a 26-year-old former employee of the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo