Man Arrested in Akita for Allegedly Threatening Mother with a Knife After Barricading Himself Inside for 8 Hours (Kyodo News)

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On the evening of the 13th, a man barricaded himself in a room of a municipal housing complex in Goshono Motomachi, Akita City, where his mother lived. About eight hours later, in the early hours of the 14th, he emerged after being persuaded by police officers and was arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Punishment of Violence (threatening) his mother. No one was injured. A woman in her 20s, an acquaintance of the man, was also found in…