A Japanese court has sentenced a 19-year-old man to a prison term of six to 10 years for stabbing two senior high school students and an elderly man near the University of Tokyo on the day of nationwide entrance exams in January last year.
A 73-year-old man fatally stabs his wife and daughter who were staying in a neurology hospital in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, before apparently taking his own life, police said.
Three people were injured in a stabbing incident on a train in Osaka, western Japan, on July 23, with the male perpetrator promptly arrested, local authorities said.
A Tokyo court has sentenced a 37-year-old man to 19 years in prison for stabbing three passengers in a random knife attack on a Tokyo commuter train in 2021.