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Public broadcaster NHK said three people were conscious after
being injured in the morning when another student attacked them
with a bladed object as they gathered to take their entrance
exam.
The alleged assailant, a 17-year old high school student, was
arrested, the Asahi newspaper said.
Half a million high school students across Japan are taking the
annual university entrance exams this weekend in hundreds of
venues across the country.
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said it could not comment
on the details of the attack nor confirm any arrests.
Violent crimes are exceedingly rare in Japan, but there have
been a spate of knife attacks by assailants unknown to the
victims.
In October, a man dressed in Batman's Joker costume dressed in
Batman's Joker costume stabbed more than a dozen people on a
train carriage in Tokyo, sending passengers screaming down the
aisles of train carriages and scrambling out of windows to
escape. A few months earlier, a man wounded several people in a
knife attack on a Tokyo commuter train.
(Reporting by Issei Kato; Writing by Mari Saito; Editing by
William Mallard)
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