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News card: Man stabbed to death in a street fight near Tokyo's JR Fussa Station; police hunt an acquaintance

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Man stabbed to death in a street fight near Tokyo's JR Fussa Station; police hunt an acquaintance. File photo from December 2019 (Wikimedia Commons user 国立寺, CC BY-SA 4.0): the white JR Fussa Station building and its east exit plaza under a clear blue sky, with a glass canopy, a hedge and parked cars; not from Oct 18. Key facts: about 2:30 AM Sunday Oct 18 Japan time (1:30 PM ET Saturday) in Fussa, Tokyo; witnesses called police about a fistfight and a bloodied man walking away; a man believed to be in his 40s was stabbed in the left chest and died in hospital; police believe a man in his 50s, an acquaintance, stabbed him and fled; Tokyo police are investigating it as murder, with no arrest or names released. Sources: Jiji Press, Asahi Shimbun, FNN (Fuji TV). exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-18-jp-fussa-stabbing. @exeindex.
File, Dec 2019: JR Fussa Station east exit; the attack was about 300 m east. not from Oct 18. File photo: Wikimedia Commons user 国立寺, File:Fussa St East gate.jpg (Fussa Station east exit, 2019-12-15) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY-SA 4.0 EXE Index (share-alike from photo)

Oct 18, western Tokyo: a man in his 40s was stabbed in the chest in a street fight near JR Fussa Station and died in hospital. Police are treating it as murder and searching for a man in his 50s believed to be an acquaintance, Jiji and Asahi report.

What
News card: Man stabbed to death in a street fight near Tokyo's JR Fussa Station; police hunt an acquaintance
Where
Asia
When
2026-10-18
Source
Jiji Press
Credit
File, Dec 2019: JR Fussa Station east exit; the attack was about 300 m east. not from Oct 18. File photo: Wikimedia Commons user 国立寺, File:Fussa St East gate.jpg (Fussa Station east exit, 2019-12-15)
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CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY-SA 4.0 EXE Index (share-alike from photo)
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Asia, Japan

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  1. Jiji Press
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