Police in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a 23-year-old male acquaintance by hitting him on the head with a beer stein at a karaoke parlor on Sunday.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 5:20 a.m. Local media reported that the suspect, a foreign student, and the victim, a Japanese man, were apparently both intoxicated at the time.
Police said the two got into an argument. They did not reveal the nationality of the student.
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kurisupisu
It’s time to change the law on a par with the knife laws and introduce paper cups widely in Japan
sir_bentley28
More of this "us vs them" mentality. In any case, this is hardly even news! Did it make headlines because it involved a foreigner assaulting a japanese person?
Old Sausage
Intellect, the power of thinking has deluded humans into believing they are not animals, like chimps, gorilas or hienas.
Gaijinjland
Karaoke places don’t sever their beer in “beer steins”. Well maybe they do in Germany but not Japan.
commanteer
I was wondering about the stein myself. What kind of elegant karaoke joint used beer steins? I might be tempted to go there.
shogun36
Put them both in jail, no one wants them around.
3RENSHO
If this article were originally written in Japanese, then 'beer stein' is probably a translation of 'beer jockey' ビールジョッキ Bīrujokki...
Sven Asai
Maybe quite some need more contemporary manuals. Karaoke parlors are for singing, beer steins are for drinking beer, knives are for cooking, guns are for sports shooting on not alive targets, and so on. Yes, I know, I forgot that they on average also can’t and don’t want to read manuals. lol
WilliB
He thought he was at the Oktoberfest? Injuries from beer steins are one of the typical cases in the Red Cross tent there...
リッチ
Dang those glasses are so strong. Lucky he wasn’t killed.
Mirchy
If a foreign student injured a native to the point of bleeding, his study journey in Japan is probably over.
Mr Kipling
Probably a "jocky"... But whatever it was, let's hope it was empty!