Man pleads guilty over deadly knife rampage on bullet train in Japan

A man pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering a passenger and trying to kill two others in a random knife attack on a shinkansen bullet train last year.Ichiro Kojima, 23, slashed Kotaro Umeda with a knife and machete, killing the 38-year-old from Hyogo Prefecture. He also seriously wounded two women in their 20s in the attack on the Nozomi 265 train en route from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka on the evening of June 9, according to the indictment."I did it with the intent to kill," said Kojima in the first court hearing in his lay judge trial held at the Odawara branch of the Yokohama District Court.Pros…READ FULL ARTICLE