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A knife-wielding man kills a woman at a Tokyo Pokemon shop before taking his own life
The attacker and employee both died after the stabbing at a crowded Pokémon store during Japan's spring break, with prior stalking complaints reported, police said.
- On Thursday, a man in his 20s stabbed a female employee at the Pokemon Centerin in Sunshine City, Tokyo, before stabbing himself; both were pronounced dead within an hour, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.
- Before Thursday, police had received stalking complaints from a person believed to be the deceased woman, Asahi newspaper reported, suggesting a potential prior threat or motive.
- Videos showed shoppers running away as the store, crowded with more than 100 customers including children and tourists, descended into chaos; a witness told Asahi they heard a woman screaming "help!" amid falling shelves.
- Pokemon said the Ikebukuro store and its adjacent Pikachu Sweets cafe will remain closed until further notice, pledging full cooperation with Police and prioritizing staff's physical and mental care.
- Strict gun controls in Japan mean knife attacks are a more common form of public violence, with NHK reporting multiple stabbing incidents on trains and at railway stations in recent years.
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It Was a Dream Job: Employee in Her 20s Dies in Stalker Knife Attack at Japanese Pokémon Center. An incident occurred at the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo inside Sunshine City at Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo, Japan, where a female employee in her 20s was killed by a knife wielded by her former boyfriend. According to NHK and the Asahi Shimbun on the 27th, at 7 p.m. the previous day
Knife-wielding man kills Pokemon shop employee in Japan before taking his own life
The woman, in her 20s, was stabbed in her neck at 7:16 pm in a shopping mall by a man also in his 20s, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. Both were pronounced dead at a hospital within an hour, police said.
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