Man brandishes sword on Tokyo Metro
At around 3:20 p.m., a station employee at Korakuen Station on Namboku Line called police to report that a man was causing a disturbance on a with a wooden sword measuring about one meter in length.
According to police, the man, aged in his 40s, was causing a disturbance on the train while it was moving, brandishing the sword.
After the train arrived at the station, the station employee apprehended the man on the platform. Police later arrested him for violating the Act on the Punishment of Violence.
There were passengers on the train at the time, but no one was injured. Many of them fled for the platform after the train arrived.
Police are now investigating the circumstances that led to the incident.
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