Man with samurai sword arrested for robbery in Osaka
OSAKA —
Police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly robbing a convenience store with a model samurai sword and stealing 110,000 yen in Minoh City, Osaka.
Takeshi Nakajima, 22, was arrested for allegedly robbing the convenience store around 1:35 a.m., threatening a 19-year-old shop clerk with the sword. The clerk chased the suspect outside with a dustpan, caught him and handed him over to police.
Police said several similar cases have been reported in the area since April.
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Altria
My crouching dustpan style defeats your samurai sword!!!
Seriously, what a wuss.
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Zen_Builder
LOL. Model Sword. Pls, tell us if it was a Katana or a Wakizashi?
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japanyesterday
danm samurai sword, i hope it get sent to jail....or banned.
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serindipity
Good work from the clerk for catching him, albeit stupid. Rule number of convenience store work - never confront a bandit! Just give them what they want and call the police! This clerk is lucky he's not dead.
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KyouNoNippon
If it was Minoh it was probably a monkey that did it. They can put money in the vending machines and choose Coca-Cola!!
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romulus3
dustpan vs samurai sword? wow.
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asdfghjkl
Who would rob with a real sword.....do you know how much those things cost!
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dennis0bauer
model sword? what scale?
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TeruSensei
He probably bought it for 500yen in one of those boxes that you get 1 of a possible 6 different toys.
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WMD
My god! Would you, as a 800 yen an hour store clerk chase a guy with a sword?? I sure as hell wouldn't. Give him what he wants.
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lipscombe
he probably saw the daiso 100 yen shop sticker on the sword handle
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TabbyR
Wow, at least he is doing something different other than just pointing a gun like all the other cliche robbers.
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Antonios_M
model sword??? Is he a Rurouni Kenshin's series fan or what?
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keshii
The last line of the article is my favorite. So there's been several similar stories to this one recently, of wanna-be samurai being chased out of convenient stores with dustpans? This reminds me why I love Japan. It's just crazy sometimes.
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