A Japanese court on Friday granted a request by prosecutors to conduct a psychiatric examination on a man who was arrested after randomly attacking passengers with a cleaver on a crowded shinkansen bullet train last month, killing a man and injuring two women.Ichiro Kojima, 22, will be evaluated for mental competency for about four months to see whether he can be held responsible for his actions, according to prosecutors.Since he hinted at suicidal thoughts and his explanations of the incident often did not make sense during the investigation, prosecutors had been considering filing a reque…READ FULL ARTICLE
