Man arrested for stabbing spree threat

Japanese police yesterday arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly threatening on the Internet to go on a stabbing spree at Tokyo Disneyland.

The message, posted on a website by someone using a cell phone on June 15, came a week after a man posted similar warnings before killing seven people in a downtown Tokyo knifing rampage. Authorities were also searching for a woman suspected of wounding three people in a knifing incident on Sunday.

Since the deadly stabbing attack in early June, police have arrested several people for allegedly using the Internet to make chillingly specific threats of violence.