Man with scissors attacks 13-year-old girl in Nagoya

Thursday 27th November, 11:07 AM JST

AICHI —

A man on Wednesday night attacked a 13-year-old school girl with scissors on the street in Nagoya. The girl was not injured, police said Thursday.

According to police, the man approached the girl at 6:10 p.m. and told her he was lost. Then he suddenly assaulted her with scissors and cut her cardigan. She reported the case to her mother who later called police.

The girl told police the suspect is in his 20s or 30s with short hair and wore black sunglasses and a black jacket.

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mcheeky at 01:39 PM JST - 27th November

What is up with the attacks on teen girls? What the heck did they do to anybody?
dennis0bauer at 03:16 PM JST - 27th November

Let's ban scissors and the problem will go "away".
tokyotom at 03:17 PM JST - 27th November

Running with scissors is very dangerous!
ptolemy at 03:31 PM JST - 27th November

Wow another tough guy attacking a girl, what a wussy.
anonymouswoman at 05:21 PM JST - 27th November

so many crazy dudes in Japan. what is happening to this country. aging society, killing each other, I am pretty sure they will and this is really soon that Japan should open its door to foreign workers...but Japan is afraid of foreigners, because some of them thinks that gaijins are bad...as they call us, Hen na Gaijin
romulus3 at 05:35 PM JST - 27th November

school girls should be equipped with mace. I wonder how many of these types of crimes go unreported or undocumented.
sensei258 at 06:06 PM JST - 27th November

Or, she damaged her cardigan herself, and made up the story so her parents wouldn't yell at her.
BBLeo at 06:46 PM JST - 27th November

Wasn't such attack reported a while back? He was wearing sunglasses at 6:10PM? She doesn't remember much doesn't she. For future criminals this article will give them a good idea how to get away with crime. Black jacket is for 'BANDIDOS.'
WMD at 08:08 PM JST - 27th November

Teach all kids at school effective self defence techniques.
lazyman0909 at 08:39 PM JST - 27th November

Too bad she didn't have a gun to defend herself.
ant721 at 09:51 PM JST - 27th November

I believe sensei258 got it right
romulus3 at 12:05 AM JST - 28th November

Or, she damaged her cardigan herself, and made up the story so her parents wouldn't yell at her.

yell at her for what?
eri34 at 08:20 AM JST - 28th November

I don't know the girl said lie or this is true. But surely she is little bit doubtful. well it is good for her that she wasn't injury anyway. If this is true, she felt really scary. I hope she is not trauma of this happend. There are many bad news. Why so many case happend everyday... There are many unusual people in Japan.
LFRAgain at 03:03 PM JST - 28th November

I agree. It's good that she wasn't injured. While it may be possible that she's lying about this, there have been enough similar incidents over the past few years, or months even, to support her claim. I hope this event doesn't traumatize her too much.
bamboohat at 12:19 PM JST - 29th November

She reported the case to her mother who later called police

what was she waiting for? A decision to believe her daughter? You'd think if a girl narrowly escape a scissors wielding wierdo, they'd call the cops right away. Maybe the mom was too chicken to confront the daughter so she was waiting to get up the nerve to call the cops even though she didn't believe it herself. And where is the dad in all this? Why doesn't the article read, "she told her parents who immediately called the police." You'd think if a dude attacked a 13 y/o the dad would be pretty steamed. If it is true, I hope she's not mentally traumatized and that they catch the creep.