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Police arrested a knife-wielding man at the Naka Ward office in Yokohama on Thursday.
According to police, Shigenori Kasai, 50, who is unemployed, came into the ward office at around 10:40 a.m., Fuji TV reported. He went up to the third floor consultation center for living support. After speaking with a staff member, he jumped up on the counter, started yelling and waving a knife. An employee called 110 to report the incident.
Before police arrived, several male employees subdued the man; however, one of them received minor cuts to his finger in the struggle.
© Japan Today
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Aly Rustom
AGAIN?! Didn't we have a similar incident the other day? What's going on here?
fuzzylogic
"AGAIN?! Didn't we have a similar incident the other day? What's going on here?"
Sound like the disappointment of cadre leniency, and privilege.
descendent
Back when I worked in a Japanese city hall, we often had people come in and yell expletives at the top of their lungs in that pseudo-yakuza manner, usually on some trivial issue such as cleaning up leaves in autumn. Never had a knife incident, but for some reason many people feel it's their right to just walk in to a public office and start yelling.
What amazed me at the time was that they were just dealt with until they stopped yelling, which usually took at least 30minutes. Security never attempted to kick them out, they just watched to prevent escalation into physical violence. But the disruption to official duties (which I believe is a criminal offence in and of itself) was quite severe.