Late at night on the 11th, a 57-year-old Vietnamese office worker was found stabbed with a knife in the downtown area in front of Kawasaki Station in Kawasaki City, and was later confirmed dead at a hospital.
Police are investigating the whereabouts of the fugitive as a homicide.
Around 11:20 pm on the 11th, a passerby called the police on the street in Higashita-cho, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, saying, ``A man was bleeding and fell down, and a man with a kitchen knife ran.'' did.
According to the police, the person who was stabbed was a Vietnamese company employee, Nguyen Dai Hip (57), who was transported to the hospital but was confirmed dead shortly after midnight.
Nguyen was said to have been stabbed in his chest with a knife.
The knife that became the murder weapon was not found around the scene, and the police suspected that the stabber was a man from the eyewitness's account, and are investigating the whereabouts as a murder case.
The scene is a downtown area with restaurants near Kawasaki Station and Kawasaki City Hall.