Following the brutal stabbings of 2 women near the JR Shibuya Station late August, 79-year-old Hatsuko Kitagawa was sentenced to 4 year by the Tokyo District Court today. Kitagawa stabbed a woman in her 20s in the stomach with a fruit knife on Aug 22 and slashed another woman in her 20s several minutes later.

"Hatsuko Kitagawa committed an extremely heinous crime that caused people to harbor anxiety about safety at public locations," said Judge Yasuhiro Akiba in the decision. Judge Akiba said "the defendant lost her place to live and sleep and decided to commit a major crime in order to gain care from the police." The judge also said "Kitagawa assaulted victims who looked much happier than her".


Source: Japan Today

I keep my feet on solid ground
and use my wings when storms come around

to gain care from the police....omg
wow you dont have to stab someone...
because ive heard that people from where i live(Canada) people want to go to jail because its so nice..but theyve never harmed anyone they just cause truoble or steal

i dont get it hurting someone just to gain police care? ... but that's hilariously crazy!!!

man you would think that the sentence be longer, well at least to me..

I thought this stuff was only around in the movies

wow wtf???
she must have been extremely desperate o.o