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Police sent to prosecutors on Sunday a student accused of injuring eight people in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo.
Emergency vehicles are deployed to Hosei University’s Tama Campus in Machida, western Tokyo, on Jan. 10, 2025. (Photo courtesy of a member of the university)(Kyodo)
Yoo Ju Hyun, a South Korean studying in Japan, was arrested at the scene after she allegedly attacked students at Hosei University’s Tama Campus in Machida on Friday afternoon.
According to police, the woman was restrained by university staff approximately 2 minutes after the incident.
She has been quoted by police as saying she had been “bullied on a regular basis” and she came to think the “only solution” was to attack the students.
The suspect said she used a hammer which she found earlier Friday in another classroom, according to the police.
Of the eight victims, seven sustained head injuries. Not all were acquainted with the suspect.
The assailant is a second-year undergraduate who enrolled at Hosei University in April 2023.
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