At least 10 passengers have been injured after a man ran amok with a knife on a Tokyo commuter train.
At about 8.40pm local time several people told police they had been stabbed while on a train on the Odakyu Odawara Line in the western part of the city, according to local media.
NHK public television said one passenger was seriously injured in the attack.
The suspect is understood to have left a kitchen knife at the scene and fled before giving himself up in a convenience store where he was arrested.
Tokyo police took a man believed to be the perpetrator into custody at around 10pm local time, according to reports.
Police were not immediately available for comment.
Violent crime is rare in Japan but there have been a spate of violent knife attacks by assailants unknown to the victims.
In June 2008, a man in a light truck drove into a crowd in the popular Akihabara district and then jumped out of the vehicle and started stabbing pedestrians, leaving seven dead
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