One dead, two hurt in Sapporo convenience store stabbing

One person has died and two more were injured yesterday morning in a stabbing incident in a convenience store in Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, NHK broadcaster reported.

A Seicomart convenience store employee in regional capital Sapporo told local police a man was behaving aggressively with something looking like a kitchen knife before 7am local time, according to NHK.

Three employees in their 40s to 60s were stabbed and injured, with a man in his 40s taken to the hospital where he later died. Two others, a man and a woman, remained conscious.

An unemployed 43-year-old local was arrested on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder, NHK said.

In January, three men were injured in a stabbing incident at Akihabara in Tokyo but public violence remains low in Japan.