Waseda University - Surveillance Footage (partially found CCTV footage of school shooting; 1995)

The Waseda University Footage refers to the surveillance camera footage that recorded the events of February 23, 1995 during a shooting rampage.

Background
Around 1994, 17-year-old third-year student at Azabu High School, Tatsuki Sakurai, came to the realization that he had enough of the Japanese society. He was sick of the rich, sick of hard labor, politics, communism, liberalism, socialism, authority and sick of the mass media and general public neglecting mental health, and slighting others with disabilities and mental illness. He felt that the Japanese society and the rich should be held accountable for their actions and that he was the only person that could do it. During the months of July of 1994 to early February of 1995, Sakurai illegally obtained a total of six firearms: two pistols, two shotguns (both of which he sawed-off), and two rifles (one he also sawed-off) as well as gathered up several rounds of gunpowder, nitrogen, nitromethane and gasoline in both a 20 Ib steel propane cylinder and in five 16 oz propane cylinders along with fourteen homemade pipe bombs converted into makeshift timed bombs and planted them in the trunk of his 1972 black Chevrolet Caprice which he plan to drove to the Toyama Campus of the Waseda University in Shinjuku, Tokyo on February 23rd of 1995 during a national choir and band contest in which was held in the main campus and his school was to be one of the contestants.

However, his plans was foiled by his adoptive mother a day before and Sakurai would kill his adoptive family as a result. On the night of February 23rd, he drove his car to the second entrance of the Toyama Campus at 4:49 p.m., planted nine other timed bombs on the outside pillars of the Ōkubo Campus and lit five timed fuses connected to five additional timed bombs on the inside roof of his car that was also interconnected with numerous nail bombs setting all the bombs to detonate in 75 minutes, around 6:03 p.m. The bomb plantings weren't caught on the surveillance cameras as the university was sticking to a rule to change the CCTV tape eight minutes of every two hours nor was any suspicious activity reported. Shortly after planting the bombs, Sakurai entered the main campus and opened fire at people at random, killing 35 people (22 students; 5 of Waseda, 12 of Azabu High and 5 of Hiryū High School, another school that was competing in the contest, 12 teachers; 10 of Waseda, 2 of Azabu High and a police officer outside) as well as a total of 51 others were injured. His bombs detonated at the expected time and 10 additional people were killed and 789 others were hurt; bring Sakurai's death toll up to 49 (including his adoptive family) and his amount of injuries up to 840 people. Subsequently, Sakurai took his own life in the a university's library (where most of the event took place). It was at the time the deadliest terrorist attack in Japan since the 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, which was later surpassed by the Tokyo subway sarin attack three weeks later.