Police in Chiba City have arrested a 33-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she stabbed a man in his 60s with a knife at a shopping center.
According to police, the incident occurred just before 12 noon on Sunday at the shopping center in Wakaba Ward, TV Asahi reported. Police quoted witnesses as saying said Kazumi Nagata took a knife out of her bag and stabbed the man in the thighs and waist.
The man suffered only minor injuries, police said, adding that he and the woman did not know each other and that it was apparently a random attack.
Police said Nagata had three knives with her when she was arrested. Just before the incident, there was a fire at Nagata's apartment home, and police are investigating whether there is any connection.
© Japan Today
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Corey
Another random knife attack (Woman)
This was not happening several years ago.
This is happening now. A lot. Ask yourself why.
OssanAmerica
Three knives but just two arms.
Fighto!
Except for the fact you are wrong.
Rare, random knife attacks were happening years ago.
TheDalaiLamasBifocals
@Fighto
Yes. And according to the National Police Agency data, knife attacks have been on the decline since the 2000s.
Michael Corleone
sometimes the knife blade snaps off during the stabbing frenzy so i guess it's a good idea to have a couple of spares...
one knife, one arm!!
Moonraker
Scary story.
Corey
So I guess commenters here are saying that Japanese people have frequently been roaming around for years stabbing people they never knew. And that the new sites like this just didn’t report them. That’s an interesting theory.
Fighto!
Where is anyone here saying stabbings have been frequently happening in Japan?
Bizarre take. Stabbing events of random people are very rare but have always happened. We can all remember the Shimonoseki stabbing massacre (5 dead), and the Akihabara massacre (7 dead). some of the most tragic ones.
So, yes - random stabbings were happening years ago, despite your claim.
Hawk
Why don't you tell us?
Corey
Fighto
Commenters on here are ALWAYS saying “not again” when there’s yet another stabbing. You are on here every day! How can you ignore such thing? Good night!
falseflagsteve
Oh no not again, can you believe it.
Gaijinjland
Falseflagsteve
Can you give me your insight on what social services could have done to have prevented this woman from feeling the need to stab random strangers?
garypen
Sounds like she may have committed a deliberately non-fatal assault as a way to procure room and board in prison as a result of her act.