A man armed with a knife has run amok outside a shopping centre in a Japanese city near Tokyo, killing one person and wounding seven others.
Police in Tsuchiura, 50km (31 miles) north-east of the capital, arrested the suspect, who was already wanted over a separate killing last week.

The 24-year-old reportedly told them he had "just wanted to kill anyone".

Japanese media reported scenes of chaos during Sunday's attack as bloodied victims tried to escape.

Correspondents say violent crime is relatively rare in Japan except for killings by crime syndicates, although there have been concerns about a recent rise in street violence.

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The suspect, identified as Masahiro Kanagawa, allegedly stabbed his victims in a hallway connecting the mall with a railway station.

At least one of the injured was said to be in a serious condition.

The man killed was named as 27-year-old Takahiro Yamagami.

After the attack, the suspect phoned police to say he was the perpetrator and officers subsequently overpowered him, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports.

Police confirmed that they had been searching for Mr Kanagawa since a 72-year-old male resident of Tsuchiura was stabbed to death on Wednesday.

Eight police officers had been on duty at the station at the time of the mall attack, and police issued an apology for failing to prevent it.

"It was extremely regrettable that we could not prevent the attacks that caused casualties, despite our utmost effort to avoid secondary crimes [by the wanted suspect]," police official Takashi Ishii was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.


Japan man on the run..

lol so scary T-T
he jst wanted to kill anyone :X
gahh RIP <3

wtf .. killing spree

... wthhh .
thats not funnn .. o_O"
so he wanted to do it cos he jsut had to kill someone
scary~
omgggggad
how slack ..

he probably felt something wrong... a detachment with the world, or anger/frustration with life

he should be studied to find out what caused it

i watched it on news yesterday and it sounded crazy... is the guy on drugs or something?

Thats scary his crazy ><

what he just feel like killing. his insane.

if he just wanted to kill anyone he could have kill himself at least i'd feel bad for him but the him who wants to go on a killing spree I hate it. ppl like that should do ******** he needs some help. -____-

Why don't these people ever think about the victims?! Holy crackers, killing random innoccent people!

Why didnt he get a gun or use a samurai sword. That would be more like anime.

seriously, i mean, okay so you might feel like randomly killing people and i could sort of understand that because you might have a problem, but seriously, don't these people stop to think about the people they're killing? they're not dummies in a game where you kill and there are no consequences...these are real people with families and friends that love and care for them.


i don't think he went "crazy"...i mean, there's a possibility that he might be insane, but he might have a mental probably :/ i hope they find out what it is before just throwing him into jail. his reason for killing people is a bit scary.

wtf >__<
attacking random people....
man.. thats really scary

He could have used that anger for something more positive..

Damn, thats mad scary o.o
He must be maddd pisssed off!! lol

WTH ??????

like seriously who would run around killing people???
RIP TO THOSE WHO DIED

>__< that's horrible r.i.p to the person that got killed =/

Wth what's with people and stabbing randomly in cities?!

omg, how crazy!. i feel bad for those that were injured or killed.

...holy shiznitz....its soo scary to know that pplz like this r out there!!!!......x[

Street crime on the rise? D: That isn't comforting to know.
Dude needs to be placed in a mental facility, SRSLY. "/

sheeeesh!~
i feel sorry for the people injured and dead

woah that's really scary, i hope the injured peoples will be ok.

omg. i just hope i wouldnt run across anyone like him

well...that's kind of scary =x
rip to the innocent person that was murdered

He just wanted to kill...? Oh my goodness. How scary... /)___(\

i'm scared now. like forreal.

the title is kinda funny >.< but scary if you're actually there T.T

It's like a Japanese movie come true...O.o

RIP to the man who died, and I hope the others recover well.

he looks like the mentally retarded type too.

i think I saw this on the japanese news.
he said he wanted to kill mainly small school children and family.

super messed up. o_o

that scares me...it's like wow...I could've been one of those people >.< imagine that...doing the daily thigns you'd normally do...then get randomly stabbed??? >.<; not cool