Police in Seika, Kyoto Prefecture, on Tuesday arrested a 27-year-old Swiss man who was wielding a knife on a train station platform.
According to police, an employee at JR Hosono Station called 110 at around 6:30 a.m. and said there was a man on the platform holding a knife and bleeding, Kyodo News reported.
Police said the man was sitting on the platform with blood coming from his left hand and other parts of his body. When a station employee called out to him, he tried to jump onto the tracks. When the employee tried to stop him, the man took a knife from his backpack.
Station staff subdued the man until police arrived 10 minutes later. The man was arrested on suspicion of violating the Swords and Firearms Control Law. No station staff or passengers were injured.
JR West said two trains on both lines of the JR Gakkentoshi Line were suspended and three trains were delayed by up to 56 minutes.
Editor: Story has been updated with further information.
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DanteKH
We need more details about this?
Was he on drugs? Was he beaten by other person? Did he cut hymself??
What exactly happened there?
garypen
Lots of questions left unanswered. I imagine there will be further information from the authorities, at some point. It will be nice if JT posted a followup, once more info becomes available.
OssanAmerica
Was it a SAK?
nandakandamanda
According to other news sources, he said had slashed his own left arm and wanted to die. They stopped him from jumping onto the tracks, and charged him with violating the swords and firearms law, open carry of a 17 cm kitchen knife in a public place.
Pukey2
Was it a Swiss knife?
Zaphod
Sounds like drugs. But w/o more details we can only speculate.
Nicolò
Are all foreigners in Japan carrying knives? Vaya! God forbid!
Bobby Franks
Pukey2
Cheers!
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@Japan Glimpsed
Let's try this again. No, Pukey2, it was made in Xinjiang by forced labor.
kaimycahl
Evidently when he arrived in Japan he didn't have a problem, from reading this story he has one more to add to perhaps his others. As readers we don't know but the rule of life says it had two indicators money or a women is involved.