Angry job seeker sets unemployment office worker on fire
An employee of a “Hello Work” office was set on fire by a disappointed job seeker:
Kumi Takahashi, an employment adviser at the local branch of the national jobs agency Hello Work, was covered with flames when a passerby called the police shortly after 8 a.m. and was rushed to hospital, Chiba prefectural police said.
The police arrested Fan Yuping, a 45-year-old resident of Kashiwa in the same prefecture, who was near the scene, on suspicion of attempted murder, the police said. The arrested woman says she was born in China, according to the police.
Fan was quoted as telling investigators, “I tried to scare (the victim) out of desperation as I have been looking for a job but couldn’t find one. I wanted to kill myself, too.”
As you can see from the above FTV evening news report, Fan Yuping’s name is mentioned, but nothing is said about Fan’s nationality. That is because she is a naturalized Japanese citizen. A Yomiuri article (Japanese) reveals that Fan was born in China but moved to Japan in 1993, married a Japanese man, and became a Japanese citizen a few years later (she later divorced her Japanese husband).
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