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A man stole 70,000 yen from a convenience store in Kita-Ibaraki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sunday morning.
According to police, the man entered the 7-Eleven store at about 4 a.m., threatened the 47-year-old male clerk with a knife and demanded money. He was described as being about 40, 170 cms tall and was wearing a dark blue parka with a hood and white face mask.
Nobody was injured in the incident, police said.
© Japan Today
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Elbuda Mexicano
Hard times for those 40 something??
smartacus
White face masks have been a real boon to robbers.
Saulo Akazawa
Rob a convenience store or keep a mc job for a week??? Hum... Not such an easy answer to everybody.
Okinawamike
White face masks have been a real boon to mask makers.
Robbers mask of choice.
cubic
70k? Doesn't really seem worth it considering the risk/reward at stake.
humanrights
'White face mask' 40 Yrs old. Police later blocked off the entire region!
malfupete
40, 170 cm tall... about 25% of the population, no?
slumdog
No.
amida
Wow, crime must be low in Japan if this makes it to the national news!
waltery
I see this guy on the train every morning, I guess the police dont look on the trains.
shinankoku
Stealing 700 dollars is national news in Japan. Wow ...
highball7
Slows news day? Might not be a bad thing when the worst you can report is a $700 theft.
Kimokekahuna Hawaii
I always think it hilarious that in Japan you can wear a mask into a bank... Try to do that in California and you would be shot. It will soon be a cashless society using only credit cards and cell phones that track your every movement, purchase and robbers will have to resort to doing things like selling each others organs.
cramp
someone in parka, hooded, masked...and somehow they can tell he's in his 40s...
thats good police work i tell ya
Carlos Godoy
Kimo-Hawaii. There's no mention of any bank...