An office worker was arrested Monday on suspicion of phoning Showa Women’s University in Tokyo and threatening to kill its employees, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Itaru Watanabe, 34, a resident of Setagaya Ward, was quoted by the Tokyo police as allegedly saying: “I got angry because (the university) canceled its informal promise to hire me. I made about 50 calls.”
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