Police arrest student suspected of hammer attack at a Tokyo university

TOKYO– Japanese cops jailed a trainee believed of a hammer attack at a Tokyo university, which regional media stated left a number of hurt.

The 22-year-old South Korean sociology trainee was collared on the area for presumably assaulting a male trainee throughout class at Hosei University’s Tama school in Tokyo’s western suburban areas on Friday, triggering him small injuries, according to the Tokyo city cops.

Japanese media stated 7 more trainees suffered small injuries as the suspect presumably struck them in succession. It was unclear whether her actions were premeditated.

Kyodo News firm reported that the suspect informed private investigators she felt “disappointed” after being overlooked and bullied by her schoolmates and utilized a hammer she discovered on school.

Almost 150 trainees remained in class that day and one informed Kyodo the opponent appeared to swing the hammer aimlessly, striking those seated in the last row in the class, which everybody fled. Another stated her face was expressionless and she did not appear to be targeting somebody in specific, according to the firm.

Cops stated an examination was still continuous without supplying more information.

Koreans still often deal with discrimination in Japan since of the bitter past in between the 2 nations, coming from Japan’s harsh colonization of the Korean Peninsula, which ended in 1945 with Japan’s defeat in The second world war.

Severe criminal offense in Japan is uncommon however random stabbing and shooting have actually happened recently.

In December, a junior high trainee was stabbed to death and her pal hurt while marking time at a McDonald’s dining establishment in the southwestern city of Kitakyushu in a supposed random attack, in which a male was later on jailed.

In 2022, 3 individuals, consisting of 2 trainees on their method to take entryway tests, were stabbed beyond the University of Tokyo. A 17-year-old trainee was jailed and later on founded guilty of tried murder.