Woman Handed Suspended Term over Attack at University Campus, Judge Attributes Attack to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo. The court found Yoo Ju Hyun, a 23-year-old South Korean, guilty of injuring the students on Jan. 10 at Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida. The presiding judge put her actions down to a mental disorder she was suffering. Episode notes: ‘Woman handed suspended term over hammer attack at Japan univ. campus’: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2025/06/28/woman-handed-suspended-term-over-hammer-attack-at-japan-univ-campus/