A man who went on a stabbing rampage on a train in 2021 was sentenced to 19 years in prison by the Tokyo District Court on Friday.
According to the court ruling, Yusuke Tsushima, 37, attacked passengers on an Odakyu Electric Railway train at around 8:30 p.m. on Aug 6, 2021, Kyodo News reported. A total of 10 passengers were injured, including a 20-year-old female university student who suffered multiple stab wounds to her back and chest.
Tsushima later told police that he wanted to kill the student because she looked like she was successful in life. "I wanted to kill women who appeared to be on the winning side of life and couples looking happy after a woman made a fool of me at a university student society," he said after his arrest.
The court heard that Tsushima also considered bombing the famous Shibuya scramble crossing intersection in the capital.
Earlier on the day that he attacked the train passengers, a female store clerk at a grocery store in Tokyo called the police after accusing him of shoplifting.
Tsushima, who was allowed to return home after questioning by officers over the incident, told police that he had wanted to kill the store clerk but switched his target to the train passengers because he noticed the store was about to close.
Security cameras on the train captured images of Tsushima stabbing the female student several times.
The other nine victims, comprising both women and men, were hurt either by being stabbed by Tsushima or sustained injuries while trying to escape the rampage.
© Japan Today/ KYODO
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Jay
What a joke. Do society a favor, J-court. Take that sentence, and DOUBLE it. At the very least. Sentencing should be based on intent, not outcome.
sakurasuki
At least this one is not suspended sentence.
lunatic
3 years already passed...
He will be back on the streets on 2039
Meiyouwenti
If he serves his sentence as a model prisoner, he’ll be out well before 2039. There were male passengers on the car. Couldn’t they have done something to save the girl getting stabbed?
Eastmann
hang him save our taxes.
Stephen Chin
A Nut case. Should be in a Nut Hospital for Life.
kaimycahl
Could this be a result of systematic bullying problem in Japan at all levels that causes such behavior especially amongst men in Japan. It seems those that are weak take their pent up regressions out on others years later with some form of nutty violence.
BigP
Whatever the reason for his knife attack, he should still swing!
CaptDingleheimer
Hopefully he meets another inmate who sharpened the end of his toothbrush into a dagger.
elephant200
I wanted to kill women who appeared to be on the winning side of life and couples looking happy after a woman made a fool of me at a university student society," he said after his arrest.
Why didnt he just go after that woman who "Fooled' him. Old memories, must be more than 15 years ago, maybe that woman married a wealthy man with a few children living in a luxury residential home now. Get over it !
smithinjapan
"I wanted to kill women who appeared to be on the winning side of life and couples looking happy after a woman made a fool of me at a university student society,"
Wonder what he's going to do when people "make a fool of" him in prison. Hopefully they do it every single day, with fists. These people need to THINK before they act.
falseflagsteve
Smith
Unfortunately or fortunately from spending on your views, this kind of violence isn’t happening on a regular basis in Japanese prisons. Too heavily monitored and that behaviour is vey severely punished almost look like WWII prison camp victims after a month or two.
TokyoLiving
Gallows, Gallows for that loser!!..
shogun36
I'm sure that didn't take much, to make him look like a fool.
She probably didn't even know he existed.
shogun36
Doubt it.
It's more to be the result of some lunatic that doesn't know how to socialize with women.
Or probably just doesn't know how to socialize with people in general.