Tokyo: A man brandishing knives stopped in Tokyo this week wanted to warn parents nationwide that hard love can ruin their children, citing his own miserable childhood, reported on Friday May 9.
The 43 -year -old man was accused of attempted murder After having pretended to assault a man in their twenties at Todai-Mae station in Tokyo, near the University of Tokyo, the most prestigious higher education institution in Japan.
The suspect “with the intention of killing reduced the victim's head and other parts of the body with a knife-shaped object he was wearing, causing injuries,” a police spokesman for AFP told.
Asked, the suspect spoke of his demanding parents, who, according to him, were obsessed with his academic success, said local media.
Because of them, “I stopped going to school and I had trouble” in adolescence, the NHK public broadcaster and other points of sale cited him as investigators.
“I wanted to show all these parents by trying to bring their children into Todai that if they go too strong with them, their children can go reckless and become criminals like me,” he said, using a common nickname for the University of Tokyo.
He chose Todai-Mae station for the attack, believing that the best university is a word for the concept of “educational violence” by too competitive parents, according to reports.
But he and the victim were foreigners to each other, and he chose to attack man “because he was nearby”, according to NHK.
Violent crimes are relatively rare in Japan, which have a low murder rate and some of the most difficult firearms in the world.
But there is occasional waste and even shots, including the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.
One day after attacking the knife, Five staff members have undergone minor injuries in a primary school in Tokyo After two men have invaded themselves in the premises.
And in 2021, a 24 -year -old man stabbed a passenger and sparked a fire in a train in the capital in Halloween while wearing an outfit resembling a nasty of the JOKER comic strip.
On Friday, a 34 -year -old man was said to have been arrested for suspicion of attempted murder after having pretended to reduce a man with a knife in the city of Osaka, causing minor injuries.
