Yokohama: A woman who was reported to have been attacked with a knife at a music hall near Tokyo on Thursday has admitted that she stabbed herself, police said.

The 48-year-old woman told the police department of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of the Japanese capital, that she stabbed herself in the abdomen with a kitchen knife she brought from her home. The woman was quoted as saying that she has been worried about a problem.

The injuries of the woman were minor, and she has already been released from the hospital, the police said.

The woman, from Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, joined with her husband a music event held at the K-Arena Yokohama facility in the Minato Mirai waterfront district in Yokohama, the capital of Kanagawa, on Thursday.

Initially, the woman told police that she noticed something like a knife stuck in her abdomen outside of the music hall.

Her latest confession came during further questioning, after police investigators could not find any suspicious person on security camera footage or any witness of what she initially claimed to have happened to her.

JIJI Press