{"id":952173,"date":"2021-11-02T03:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952173"},"modified":"2021-11-02T03:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:13:52","slug":"japan-attacker-in-joker-outfit-injures-at-least-17-on-stabbing-arson-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-attacker-in-joker-outfit-injures-at-least-17-on-stabbing-arson-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Attacker in &#039;Joker&#039; Outfit Injures at Least 17 on Stabbing, Arson Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjapan-attacker-in-joker-outfit-injures-at-least-17-on-stabbing-arson-spree%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952173&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/joker-from-batman-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Japanese man in a Joker costume <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2021\/10\/c417d049af26-breaking-news-smoke-from-apparent-gasoline-fire-fills-keio-line-train.html\">rampaged<\/a> through a&nbsp;Tokyo train on Sunday stabbing several people with a knife and starting a small fire in at least one cabin that injured additional passengers, Kyodo News reported.<\/p>\n<p>A man dressed in a green shirt and purple suit in an apparent nod to the Joker villain from the Batman comic books stabbed several people on a limited express train bound for a popular district in Tokyo on the evening of October 31.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOf the 17 injured people, a man in his 70s remains in critical condition after allegedly being stabbed by [the suspect] in the chest as the Keio Line train was moving around 8 p.m.,\u201d Kyodo News <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2021\/11\/d01adcb0f1dc-urgent-suspect-in-tokyo-train-attack-says-he-adores-batman-villain-joker.html\">reported<\/a> on November 1. \u201cThe suspect also allegedly started a fire on the train using lighter fluid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other 16 victims aged between their teens to their 60s sustained minor injuries, including smoke inhalation,\u201d according to the Japanese news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u4eac\u738b\u7dda\u56fd\u9818\u99c5\u3067\u5203\u7269\u7537 \u96fb\u8eca\u51fa\u706b\u3001\u3051\u304c\u4eba\u8907\u6570\u304b\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xnks8CKD1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The train\u2019s operator carried out an emergency stop at a station in western Tokyo after which passengers were seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-xnks8CKD1Y\">climbing<\/a> out of the train\u2019s windows to escape the carnage. Dozens of firefighters descended on the scene and successfully put out the train\u2019s fire within half an hour.&nbsp;Tokyo Police subsequently arrived at the station and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SlG1uj2SdD0&amp;t=1s\">arrested<\/a> Kyota Hattori, 24, on suspicion of attempted murder for the alleged acts of stabbing and arson.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=SlG1uj2SdD0&#038;start=1&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=SlG1uj2SdD0&amp;start=1&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigative sources and eyewitnesses said the suspect was brandishing what looked like a kitchen knife and holding a plastic bottle in his other hand as he walked through the train,\u201d Kyodo News reported on October 31. \u201cAfter riding the train in the eighth car from the front and stabbing the man in his 70s, Hattori moved to the sixth car where he scattered the fluid and burnt a seat. The train then filled with smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators for the Tokyo Police quoted Hattori as saying he \u201cwanted to kill people and be given the death penalty\u201d adding that he \u201choped to do so if he killed two or more people.\u201d Hatori further stated that he \u201chad scattered lighter fluid\u201d on the train.<\/p>\n<p>Kyodo News reported on November 1 that Hattori \u201ctold the police he chose a limited express train bound for the city center that makes few stops because it is generally crowded with passengers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the suspect \u201cexpressed regret at failing to kill anyone in the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident on October 15, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20211015\/p2a\/00m\/0na\/014000c\">stabbed<\/a> two other men at Tokyo Metro Co.\u2019s J.R. Ueno Station. Two months earlier, in August, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/14425553\">sprayed<\/a> sulfuric acid onto the face of another man at a Tokyo Metro Co.\u2019s Shirokane-Takanawa Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese man in a Joker costume rampaged through a\u00a0Tokyo train on Sunday stabbing several people with a knife and starting a small fire in at least one cabin that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}