The street where Sunday night’s attack took place.

Man slashes schoolgirl with knife in Nagoya

Monday 09th June, 04:28 PM JST

NAGOYA —

A man on Sunday night assaulted a schoolgirl on a street in Kita-Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, police said Monday. According to police, the girl, 13, was walking home after finishing softball around 8 p.m. when the suspect came up behind her. The girl told police the man grabbed a softball she was carrying and threw it at her.

The girl said that as she turned to run away, the man came at her with a knife and slashed her pants. Police said she wasn’t injured because her wallet in the left back pocket of her jeans protected her from the blade.

The suspect fled on a bicycle, mumbling to himself, the girl was quoted as saying. According to the girl’s description, he was in his 40s and was wearing a white cap and black clothes.

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umbrella at 07:46 PM JST - 9th June

Maybe it's time for kids to receive regular self sefence classes at school.
blvtzpk at 08:08 PM JST - 9th June

Current-day Japan: On a knife-edge
Molenir at 09:20 PM JST - 9th June

Very fortunate she wasn't injured. And yeah, I think self defense classes would be a good thing too.
skipthesong at 09:38 PM JST - 9th June

What is going on lately, the first five or six articles are about people killing or attempting to do so. And, almost are all by knives, why aren't we talking about banning knives?
serindipity at 09:49 PM JST - 9th June

why aren't we talking about banning knives?

Yeah right! Death by sharpened chopstick!

How the hallabit can you even think it is even remotely possible to ban knives? I guess you eat pumpkins like apples. This kind of crap is gonna continue and it is gonna get worse. I remember a line from The Adams Family movie when Wednesday was going to a costume party, but she was stayed in her normal clothing. A woman asked her who she was dressed as and she replied, "I'm dressed as a homicidal maniac cos they look just like everybody else."
Crucades at 11:05 PM JST - 9th June

kevlar lining is light, inexpensve and can be put inside any kind of clothing without any noticeable effect, Japan might just be going into a big kevlar buisness....
usaexpat at 11:08 PM JST - 9th June

"the suspect fled on a bicycle mumbling to himself"

there's the key obviosuly yet another nutter. Lucky for the girl she wasn't injured. I really wonder why so many people are going off the rails these days.
jeancolmar at 11:10 PM JST - 9th June

Lucky school girl. I'll say it again. There is an epidemic in Japan. Madness is catching.
thepro at 11:44 PM JST - 9th June

God help these nutters if I ever see one on the street
flammenwerfer at 07:52 AM JST - 10th June

Daylight savings Time could have helped prevent this: 8pm would still be daylight if DSL was implemented in this fine country.....
TheguyNextdoor at 08:05 AM JST - 10th June

Going to and from work everyday is going to be a new adventure for me with all these crazies over here in Japan. Its like you never know who will go off the deepend. I'm always ready for anything to happen, I want to get my wife a police baton and show her how to use it. I get worried now that she sometimes comes home late from work. God forbid anything to happen, I wont let the crazy go untouched by my hands.
Fair dinkum! at 09:24 AM JST - 10th June

Here, here! TheguyNextdoor. However, if you touch these freaks you will be locked up too. What a great law.
1proudamerican at 06:51 PM JST - 10th June

is she telling the truth,did anyone else see this attack.maybe she isent telling the whole truth.something just dosent sound right about this.i could be wrong.
gerriburn at 09:01 PM JST - 10th June

I see a lot of school kids coming home from school as late as 8:30pm here in northern japan, DST is a good idea or at let the kids be home earlier than that, it would at least get them away from danger. Not to overgeneralize but majority of crimes happens at night.
franz75 at 09:35 PM JST - 10th June

If Japan was using day light saving and just shifting 2 hours forward, it will be pretty bright at 8pm. How needs a bright sky at 4am anyways...