Tsuyama massacre

The Tsuyama massacre (津山事件 Tsuyama jiken) was a spree killing that occurred on 21 May 1938 in the rural village of Kamo close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. Mutsuo Toi (都井 睦雄 Toi Mutsuo), a 21-year-old man, killed 30 people, including his grandmother, with a Browning shotgun, Katana, and axe, and seriously injured three others before killing himself with the shotgun. Until the 1982 killing by Woo Bum-kon, this incident was regarded as the second-worst massacre by an individual in modern history, behind the 1927 killing of 44 people by Andrew Kehoe.

Tsuyama massacre

The Tsuyama massacre (津山事件 Tsuyama jiken) was a spree killing that occurred on 21 May 1938 in the rural village of Kamo close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. Mutsuo Toi (都井 睦雄 Toi Mutsuo), a 21-year-old man, killed 30 people, including his grandmother, with a Browning shotgun, Katana, and axe, and seriously injured three others before killing himself with the shotgun. Until the 1982 killing by Woo Bum-kon, this incident was regarded as the second-worst massacre by an individual in modern history, behind the 1927 killing of 44 people by Andrew Kehoe.