Knife-wielding man breaks into Saitama school, no one hurt

TOKYO, Japan - Pupils and teachers of Tokorozawa Elementary School in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, evacuated to the school grounds from their classrooms July 11 after a man wielding a knife broke into the school. The man made a demand to the principal that the school buy what he said was an archaeological piece from him, but ran away after the principal refused.

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