Playback ’14: University Students Ragging Around in Their Underwear… Confessions of the Members of the Shinjuku Kabukicho “Mass Coma Incident
What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In “Playback Friday,” we take a look back at the topics that were hot at the time. This time, we bring you a report from 10 years ago, in the July 11, 2002 issue, about a ” stupid circle” of female students at Meiji University who fell unconscious on the street.
The scene that quickly spread on SNS late at night on June 20, 2002, was bizarre. In Cine City Square in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district, college girls were lying around in their underwear. Toxic gas? Some kind of mass poisoning? The Internet was in an uproar over the cause of the incident. (The descriptions in parentheses below are quoted from past articles.)
Without taking care of his fallen comrades, he said, “Yay! without taking care of his fallen comrade.
A man who was watching the whole thing said, “He was returning from a party around 10:00.
Around 10:00, three male students who looked like they were returning from a party appeared holding three drunken female students by their shoulders, and 10 minutes later, six men and six women, including a girl in a coma, followed a few minutes later by another group of six ……, and within 30 minutes there were about 25 students. They were crouched or collapsed in the street. Some of the guys were fine, and without any care, they were hustling around, ‘Yay!’ ‘ without any help.”
Soon after, police and paramedics arrived, and the two men were taken to the hospital.
The drunken group turned out to be members of the “Christenis Club,” a club officially recognized by Meiji University and Japan Women’s University. About 150 people belong to this club, and the ratio of men to women is 50-50. So what was going on in this club?
