Japanese Man Arrested for Threatening to Blow Up Nintendo Headquarters - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 May 2026 / 1,734 Views
A 27-year-old Japanese man from around 100 miles outside of Kyoto has been arrested for threatening to blow up Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto. This was reported by KTV News and translated by Automaton.
The man sent letters with the threats and was arrested on the grounds of suspected obstruction of business. The letters contained messages like "I’m going to blow you all up" and "My plans cannot be thwarted." He also threatened that he had "already planted multiple bombs" within the Nintendo's premises.
Nintendo reported these threats to the police on March 16, after which officers searched the area. Nothing suspicious was found, however, the man has since been admitted to the charges. The police are investigating the motive.
This isn't the first time Nintendo has been threatened. In April 2024, 27-year-old Kenshin Kazama was arrested after sending 39 threats via the inquiry form on Nintendo’s official website over the course of three months.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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A Playstation fanboy?
Ps fans love Nintendo
Plenty hate Nintendo.
We need better support for mental illness. More empathy, more compassion, more facilities that are fully funded by governments and staffed with caring people to take care of the ones who can't care for themselves, and to patch up the ones who can etc. The world is getting harder and harder to live in from a mental point of view, and these sorts of crazy things are the symptoms of it.
We also need an internet culture that doesn’t prey on them and try to radicalise them into culture war puppets and set them loose on the world.
Yes. It's a systemic problem from top to bottom, and we all need to do better.
I guess that price increase really hit him hard.
Man took "drop the price" very literally
nintendo is a conservative company. Left nut?
