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A 67-year-old man was stabbed in the neck by another man in Ichigaya Yamabushicho, Shinjuku Ward, in Tokyo on Friday.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:15 a.m. in the parking lot of a hospital, where the victim works, Fuji TV reported. A passerby called 110 and said a man was lying on the ground, bleeding from the neck.
The victim was taken to hospital with two stab wounds to his neck and is in a stable condition, police said. The victim said he had just gotten out of his car when a man he didn’t know came up to him and stabbed him.
The attacker is described as being about 170 cms tall, inches late 40s or early 50s, and was wearing black.
The scene of the crime is about 100 meters from Ushigome-yanagicho Station on the Oedo subway line.
© Japan Today
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commanteer
Well, if you have to get stabbed in the neck, a hospital parking lot is one of the better places for it to happen. The location may have saved his life.
commanteer
We don't know that it was random.
London_Bhoy
It's either a random nutter, a targeted whack, or a bit of 'road / parking rage'. Basically, we don't know. Anyway, if you're going to get stabbed by someone, a hospital car park is probably the best place.
Sceptical
We're still lucky, guns are still almost non existent.
Stabbings without provocation, what's wrong with this society now?
Do the hustle
Ah, Japan! The land of random stabbings! There must be a heck of a lot of lions out there running around looking fir someone to stab.
sensei258
What is it with all the neck stabbing lately?
Chip Star
Of course it isn't. The fact that more and more Japanese people are falling into poverty is definitely driving the crime.
sensei258
@ commanteer - in this case, that may have been true. But years ago in a Hachioji, a supermarket parking attendant was stabbed to death when he intervened in a dispute a few meters from an EMT/fire station.
oldman_13
It's no coincidence random crimes like these are continuing to rise...
Sergey
When the police catch him. He will turn out to be a loser at which everybody mocks from childhood.
garypen
"In the neck" again. I really think this is a trend.
A stab wound to the neck is more likely to be quickly fatal than one to the torso (other than the heart, of course).
So, it seems that people are deliberately trying to kill, despite their insincere protestations of "I never meant to kill him/her", which seems to becoming as common as, "I was drunk and don't remember".
mmwkdw
If you're faced with an assailant who's aiming at your neck use your arms to take the hit - facing outwards . That way you will have a chance...
I wonder if this is a copy-cat attempt for notoriety given the news of Shane O'Brien. ... some sort of initiation ceremony ?
Blacklabel
Yeah if you gotta get stabbed not a bad place for it to happen.