Tokyo: Three people, including two students on their way to take an university entrance examination, stabbed on Saturday right outside the test site, and the authorities arrested a 17-year-old student in a suspicion of murder experiments, Tokyo police said.
Victims – Two 18-year-old secondary school students and a 72-year-old man – all conscious and their injuries did not threaten the soul when they rushed to hospital for treatment, police said.
But the agent victim was then in serious condition, local media reported.
Police said the attacker, identified only as a secondary school student from the central Japanese city of Nagoya because he was an underage child, cutting three people on their backs on the road outside the main campus of the University of Tokyo, one of which was a place for the two-day national entrance examination in Japan this weekend.
Police said they were investigating the motives of the attackers.
He did not take the exam.
The police also looked into low heat at the nearby subway station which occurred right before the attack.
The suspect claimed responsibility for the fire of the subway station, according to local media.
A teenager striker told the police that he struggled with his academic performance and that he wanted to commit suicide after committing a crime, NHK public television reported.
About 3,700 students attended the Saturday exam at the University of Tokyo and they began as scheduled regardless of the attack.
Violence crimes are rare in Japan but there has been a series of random blades and burning in recent months.
In December, 25 people were killed in Arson’s attack at the mental health clinic in Osaka, where a suspect was also seriously injured and then died.
In October, a 24-year-old man wearing a Joker costume from the Batman film stabbed a old man and lit a fire in a trailed car in Tokyo, injuring more than a dozen people.
In August, a 36-year-old man injured around 10 people in a knife attack on the Tokyo commuter train.