Ground Self-Defense Force member arrested over stabbing in Tokyo's Akasaka

A Ground Self-Defense Force member was arrested Saturday for attempted murder after a woman in her 40s was stabbed and suffered serious wounds in Tokyo's Akasaka district days earlier, police said.Yoichiro Otsu, a 43-year-old resident of Tokyo's Nerima Ward, has denied the allegation. According to investigative and other sources, the suspect, a sergeant 1st class who belongs to GSDF Camp Asaka in Nerima, is an acquaintance of the woman.A man was seen fleeing the scene by bicycle after the stabbing last Sunday morning outside a live music venue in the basement of a building. The woman, a mus…READ FULL ARTICLE