{"id":180645,"date":"2026-10-29T10:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=180645&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:12:42","slug":"school-route-patrols-planned-after-kokura-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/school-route-patrols-planned-after-kokura-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"School-route patrols planned after Kokura stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police and other personnel will monitor routes to and from every elementary school in Kitakyushu\u2019s Kokurakita Ward from Oct. 27 following a street stabbing. The patrols follow an attack on a woman in her 20s near a convenience store in Furusenbamachi shortly after 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 25. She told investigators she did not know the man who attacked her. Security footage showed a man leaving the scene toward the south. Police are searching for a suspect thought to be in his 40s or 50s who wore a white cap, a brown long-sleeved top and light-brown trousers. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.web.nhk\/newsweb\/na\/nd-20261026de65914\" target=\"_blank\">NHK News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/1140016\" target=\"_blank\">TNC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_kokura-stabbing_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1238%2C688&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1238\" height=\"688\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_kokura-stabbing_2026_cl.jpg?w=1238&amp;ssl=1 1238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_kokura-stabbing_2026_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_kokura-stabbing_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C569&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fnn_kokura-stabbing_2026_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: NHK News<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and other personnel will monitor routes to and from every elementary school in Kitakyushu\u2019s Kokurakita Ward from Oct. 27 following a street stabbing. The patrols follow an attack on a woman in her 20s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":180646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-180645","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/180645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}