A man in his 20s was stabbed while he was walking to work in Fukuoka on Thursday.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 8 a.m. in Nishi Ward, NHK reported. The man called 110 and said he had been stabbed from behind.
Police said the man told them he was walking along a street when someone bumped into him from behind. He said he felt a sudden pain on the right side of his lower back and saw blood.
Police said the man was taken to hospital and quoted doctors as saying his wound is not life-threatening.
Police said they are examining street surveillance camera footage to try and identify the assailant. The victim said he couldn't tell if it was a man or woman who attacked him because it happened so quickly.
© Japan Today
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What ol' Jack Burton always says
And...what ? Why isn't there any description at all of the stabber and on what street ?
Mr Kipling
Not another self stabber looking for sympathy I hope.
Moonraker
Too many nuts around. At least they don't have guns though.
Lindsay
It’s a special skill to stab oneself in the back. It’s coming into summer and the random stabbers are coming out. No doubt this will be another “I just wanted to kill someone” case.
Larr Flint
Be careful guys while walking to work. I always check my surroundings and try to avoid people that follow me for a long time.
falseflagsteve
Well,this is very strange isn’t it. What kind of a mental wants to hurt and maybe kill a stranger, I can’t fathom the mindset you see.
Sven Asai
The future always starts just today. Like in other countries already, we will soon need for daily life and work commuting those big fat SUVs or better something like tanks and of course any effective distance weapons so that the probability is a bit lowered for that they all can come near enough to stab or bomb or throwing chemicals and so on. It’s surely not a nice future, but I guess also everyone of you wants to reach at least something near the current statistical average life expectancy. Cases are still numbered here, but as an early warning have a look at other countries, with their already exponentially rising stabbing and other killing attempts.
Yuuju
Really worrying news. Kinda, there are really those kinds of people out there, psychopaths. They usually dont need any reason, some of the most unstable. And since Japan is generally dense crowded it looks even more alarming.
Kaowaiinekochanknaw
A lot of pent up stress built up over the last few years.
We will now unfortunately see the side effects of those actions in many facets of life.
kaimycahl
Everyone says Japan is "SAFE" ok I get it, but as long as this nut is loose Japan is not safe until this Looney is off the streets. In the USA its guns thats killing people in Japan its knives. This will not be the last reporting of a stabbing, I say this because it is the weapon of choice in Japan.
Police said the man told them he was walking along a street when someone bumped into him from behind. He said he felt a sudden pain on the right side of his lower back and saw blood.
Mr Kipling
Lindsay...
No it isn't, just try it (with a blunt object for safety).
There have been several cases of "self stabbers" in the past couple of years.