A hurt male supposedly assaulted an employee at a train station in Kansai area in western Japan on Tuesday.
The unknown Japanese male, with a bleeding forehead, supposedly took out a knife and assaulted an employee at a train station in Seika in Kyoto prefecture around 6.30 am on 11 February.
Station personnel and onlookers supposedly controlled the male and informed the authorities.
Regional authorities detained the male on suspicion of breaking the Firearms and Swords Control Law. There were no injuries reported.
According to West Japan Train, the occurrence caused cancellations and hold-ups on the Gakkentoshi Line, affecting around 150 travelers.
Last month, a knife attack outside Nagano Station in main Japan left a single person dead and 2 hurt. A 49-year-old male passed away, while a 37-year-old male and a 46-year-old female sustained injuries.
The stabbing happened near a bus terminal outdoors Nagano station, according to the Kyodo News. The occurrence, believed to be a random attack without any one targeted in specific, happened near JR Nagano Station.
The suspect utilized a blade-like challenge assault 3 individuals waiting on a bus near the station, authorities stated. Among them, Hiroyuki Maruyama, a 49-year-old male, was noticable dead in a health center. Maruyama was stabbed in the left side of the abdominal area and entered into heart attack.
Violent criminal activity is unusual in Japan due to its rigorous weapon control laws. Nevertheless, current years have actually seen a number of prominent events of random knife attacks and arson on trains.
In 2021, a 24-year-old male impersonated the Joker assaulted travelers on a Tokyo train on Halloween night, hurting 17 individuals. He stabbed a guy in his 60s, who was left in important condition, and set a fire inside the train.
The suspect, who was later on seen calmly smoking cigarettes on the train, was detained at the scene. He supposedly informed authorities he wished to eliminate individuals to get the death sentence.