After stabbing 10 people, a Japanese man confesses: I want to kill all the "happy women"
"Happiness" seems to irritate some people to the point that they may commit murder, as happened to a Japanese man who was on a commuter train in Tokyo on Friday.
Today, Saturday, Japanese media reported that police arrested a 36-year-old man who attacked several people on a commuter train and managed to stab a number of passengers.
Japanese media reported that a man who was said to have wounded 10 people in a knife attack on a commuter train in Tokyo late Friday told police he was enraged when he saw "happy looking" women and wanted to kill them.
According to "Sky News Arabia", the police arrested the man in another area of Tokyo after he stabbed people in the attack, which occurred at about 8:40 pm local time, on Friday, on a train on the Odakyo Line in the western part of the city.
One of the victims, a university student, was seriously injured, while the rest suffered less serious injuries.
Sankei newspaper reported that the suspect told police: "About six years ago, I started feeling like I wanted to kill women who seemed happy. Anyone who looked fine, I just wanted to kill a lot of people," according to Reuters.
Other media, including Japan Broadcasting Corporation, carried similar statements by the suspect.
Violent crimes are rare in Japan, but there have been a series of knife attacks by assailants unknown to the victims.
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