{"id":29330,"date":"2024-04-04T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=29330"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:48:27","slug":"nintendo-live-tokyo-2024-death-bomb-threat-sender-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-live-tokyo-2024-death-bomb-threat-sender-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Live Tokyo 2024 death and bomb threat sender arrested \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 3 2024, police in Kyoto arrested a 27-year-old man in connection with the death and bomb threats made towards Nintendo and its events late last year. These threats prompted Nintendo to postpone the Splatoon Koshien National Finals 2023 and cancel their big annual event, Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the reports, the arrested man is a local government official from Ibaraki Prefecture who sent 39 messages through the inquiries form on Nintendo\u2019s website last year that threatened Nintendo employees and attendees at the company\u2019s events. These messages apparently included statements along the lines of, \u201cIf you hold Splatoon Koshien etc., I\u2019ll kill people at the venue, so be prepared,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to Koshien,\u201d and, \u201cI\u2019ll hit you with a bomb if you increase security. Die!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"472\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29330-001.jpeg\" alt=\"Splatoon Koshien National Finals 2023\" class=\"wp-image-29337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29330-001.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29330-001-380x199.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29330-001-768x403.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29330-001-600x315.jpeg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This prompted Nintendo to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/event\/information\/20231207\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issue a statement<\/a> postponing the Splatoon Koshien National Finals 2023, which had been scheduled to take place in December 2023, and canceling Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo, citing customer safety as their top priority. Nintendo Live is a huge event, so its cancellation impacted several of the company\u2019s esports tournaments, namely: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge Final Stage, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe World Championship 2024, and Splatoon 3 World Championship 2024. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/event\/information\/20240207\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an announcement<\/a> by Nintendo in February 2024, the Nintendo Live tournaments have been rescheduled to April 13 and 14.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, the police identified the suspect from information such as his internet history, and are currently investigating the matter further. This is not the first time that Nintendo has received such threats. Back in February 2023, a woman was arrested for sending threatening letters and death certificates to Nintendo executives (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230227-17987\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Related Article<\/a>).\u00a0In addition, other non-Nintendo events were also affected by threats last year. AniLoca, a new anime event that was due to be held in December 2023, was also forced to cancel due to threats of arson and stabbing (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231215-24500\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Related Article<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/verity-townsend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Verity Townsend<\/a>\u00a0based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20240403-288518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0(original article\u2019s publication date: 2024-04-03 21:27 12:12\u00a0JST)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto police have arrested a man in relation to bomb and death threats made against Nintendo&#8217;s events last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,33,68],"class_list":["post-29330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-nintendo","tag-splatoon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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