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Japan, from today (15th), the common college entrance exam like ours started. However, a high school student at the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious university, wielded a weapon, injuring an examinee and a school employee.
Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae from Tokyo.
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Today, around 8:30 am, there was a knife attack in front of the University of Tokyo, one of the most prestigious universities in Japan.
In Japan, the common university entrance exam for national and public university entrance exams started today, and two male and female students who came to take the exam at the University of Tokyo and a 72-year-old male university employee were stabbed with a weapon wielded by a gangster.
Three people were taken to the hospital in a conscious state and received treatment, but among them, a 72-year-old man was reported to have deteriorated and underwent emergency surgery.
At the scene, the police urgently arrested A, a second-year high school student living in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on charges of attempted murder.
[Nearby merchant/witness: A police officer raised (Group A) up and asked where he came from.]
Thirty minutes before the incident, a black man in a nearby subway station set fire to a piece of wood and fled. , Police believe that this fire was also intentionally caused by Army A and is investigating the details of the crime.
Japan's NTV reported that Army A said in a police investigation, "I studied with the goal of studying at the University of Tokyo to become a doctor, but I was disappointed because my grades didn't go up."
The Japanese government held an emergency press conference and asked for increased security at university entrance exam sites across the country.
Fortunately, the test went as planned, but the anxiety is growing as the crime of asking questions like this continues one after another regardless of location.
(Video coverage: Cheol-min Han, video editing: So-young Lee)