Aug 09 (Japan Times) - A man arrested in a recent random knife attack on passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo had difficulties in his personal relationships, including being rejected in online dating, according to investigative sources.
Yusuke Tsushima, 36, who had told investigators he wanted to kill “happy looking women,” was sent to prosecutors Sunday for attempted murder after stabbing a female university student on board a rapid express Odakyu Electric Railway train on Friday.
The 20-year-old woman was seriously injured with multiple stab wounds to her back and chest, and nine other people — four women and five men — were also hurt. None of them knew the man.
The sources quoted Tsushima as saying, “I was content seeing (people) rushing to escape, but even so not a single passenger was killed and that’s unfortunate.”
Tsushima blamed his misfortunes on other people.
“I’ve had a crappy life,” he was quoted as saying. “My misery is all because of the people around me.”
Tsushima spent his childhood in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, where the stabbing incident on the Odakyu Line train took place, and graduated from a high school in the capital.
