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TOKYO, Nov 05 (News On Japan) –

A woman in her 20s was arrested early Sunday morning for attempting to kill a man with a knife on the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo’s entertainment district.

The man in his 20s is conscious and receiving medical attention in hospital.

Around 1:30 a.m., a man called police saying he had been stabbed by a woman with a cutter knife on the streets of Shinjuku’s Kabukicho.

When police arrived, they found the man who reported the incident bleeding from a stab wound to his neck/shoulder area and he was transported to the hospital.

A woman in her 20s was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder.

The authorities are investigating the circumstances at the time, suspecting that there was some kind of dispute between the two. Early reports state the woman had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past 6 months on a male escort and stabbed this man when he refused to see her again.