- ARAB NEWS
- 29 Apr 2024
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YOKOHAMA: An indefinite prison sentence became final Tuesday for a man who killed one person and injured two others on a Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train in June last year.
Neither the defense nor the prosecution appealed the first instance ruling, handed down by the Odawara branch of Yokohama District Court, by the deadline Monday.
The man, Ichiro Kojima, 24, said during the trial that he planned the killing in order to stay in prison for the rest of his life.
According to the ruling, Kojima assaulted two women with a hatchet on a Nozomi Shinkansen train on the night of June 9, 2018, between the stations of Shin-Yokohama and Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.
He killed 38-year-old male corporate employee Kotaro Umeda from Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, who tried to stop the attack.
Jiji Press
