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Police on Sunday night arrested an unemployed 31-year-old man for taking a 16-year-old girl hostage at knifepoint in a shopping mall in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture.
According to police, the suspect, Koichi Tanizawa, grabbed the girl from behind in a bookstore on the third floor of the You Me Town shopping center at around 5 p.m., held a 10-cm-long fruit knife to her throat and ordered everyone out, Fuji TV reported. He demanded to talk to police witnesses said
After 20 minutes, police managed to subdue Tanizawa. The girl was unharmed. Police said the two did not know each other and are questioning Tanizawa about his motive for taking the girl hostage.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
@CaptD
The weak pray on the weak...
CaptDingleheimer
Why is it that in Japan, anytime a man attacks a random person he always chooses a school-aged female?
OnTheTrail
John, when I visited a prison during a university school trip for a class (ages ago), it was anything but 'cosy' - certainly nothing like an American prison.
Frederic Bastiat
Nutjob.
Kobe White Bar Owner
agree with the above about a free bed, plus maybe too much manga.
sensei258
He's unemployed and it's cold, good way to get "three hots and a cot"
John Beara
Are the jail cosy in Japan?
Disillusioned
Sounds like a young unemployed fella looking for some free room and board at the emperor's hotel.
Hawkeye
Unemployed, desperate, needs a place to stay
TheGodfather
Been reading any dodgy manga recently?
khulifi
Unemployed , looking for a free bed and meals ...
Wakarimasen
Weird. Lucky she was unharmed.
papigiulio
Pfff with the idol stabbing fresh in my memory this could've ended a lot worse, some crazy nutters out there, I feel lately more and more.
Aly Rustom
What the hell??