Police at the scene, Nakano, Japan, May 25, 2023 (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP)
In Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, a man stabbed a woman and then shot dead two police officers, killing all three people. Police received a call around 4:25 p.m. local time from a witness who saw a man stalking and stabbing a woman, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported. When police arrived, the attacker fired a shotgun, killing two officers and then locked himself in a house. According to witnesses, he was wearing camouflage, a hat, sunglasses and a mask. The house in which he had barricaded himself belonged to a local politician and the attacker is said to have been his eldest son according to initial information: he was arrested after several hours.
Very few guns are in circulation in Japan, due to an extremely strict law governing their ownership, as well as a number of cultural factors that favor guns in Japanese society (both for civilians and the Order’s armed forces). make a taboo. The most recent violent incident occurred on July 8, 2022, when former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot twice in the back during an attack during a public speech in Nara, near Kyoto: he had been flown to the hospital and died a few hours later.
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