Man says he tried to steal gun from police officer in koban so he could kill himself

I hope he'll be able to turn his life around.

Guys seem to go with much more messy and violent means of suicide than women.

There must be an easier way to off yourself than that.

I hope he gets help and turns things around.

I am glad the the officer was able to talk him down. This is obviously a person in distress in need of treatment more than punishment. Let's hope he gets it.

Police said the man came into the koban, brandishing a hand saw and and tried to steal the officer’s gun.

Looney tunes, why not just use the saw to take yourself out of the gene pool

If the man was brandishing a handsaw at a koban, he was not trying to steal a gun to kill himself as he confessed. It does seem that he wanted the police to kill him. This poor man should not be arrested and punished by a prison term but sent to a reform institution to treat the would-be-suicider out of him.

He never have to fetch a gun to fulfill his "last mission." I don't want to tell how alternatively.

If I were in need of of any type of help then Japan is not a country that I would want to be in.

How is it that people here resort to throwing themselves in front of trains, off buildings, asphyxiation and various other ways to end themselves?

Thank the heavens that there are barriers at my local JR station but I must ask…

What sort of society is it that seems so uncaring?

He went to the Koban to get some help, the good deed was he did get what he needed the officer managed to talk the man into dropping the saw and no one was injured. Hopefully he was taken to a treatment center for an evaluation.

This is a cry for help not just a crime.

Suicide for men is 5 times higher then women. Women can date easier, have more opportunities to make money easier, including online, women can marry easier or have more opportunities to travel, and even find a foreign husband in a foreign country, so easy for women now days. Women are not called cowards if they don't serve in the military, no draft for women, in Ukraine all Men are forced to stay between ages 18 to 60 once the country was attacked. You need to stay and fight, die if necessary for the country.

Governments should support men more. More opportunities for men, more care for men who built the country, made the majority of achievements, fight the wars and battles for the very survival of a family/Nation.

A police koban is not the place to go for help.

The function of the police is not that of a social worker

For those in Japan, ask your friends or acquaintances if they have given to a charity or helped a homeless person or even spoken to one.

The answers may be surprising…

And today's Klystron and Darwin award goes to...