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It has come to light that a 37-year-old Ground Self-Defense Force sergeant (3rd Class) formerly assigned to the 2nd Artillery Regiment at the Asahikawa base brought a real, personal knife to an off-duty mock combat training session in March 2021, misjudged the distance, and stabbed a junior soldier, leaving him with an injury that took about two weeks to heal. The GSDF handed the soldier a six-month suspension as of September 1. The incident only came to light in January 2024 — roughly three years later — after another soldier not directly involved raised it with a superior, and it then took a further two and a half years to reach the disciplinary decision. On 5ch, commenters repeatedly questioned why it took so long to uncover and punish the incident despite someone being injured, and expressed shock that a personal blade — not training equipment — had been used.
A Ground Self-Defense Force soldier belonging to the 2nd Artillery Regiment at the Asahikawa base in Asahikawa City has received disciplinary punishment for accidentally stabbing a junior soldier with a real knife during mock combat training.
The soldier handed the six-month suspension, effective September 1, is a 37-year-old Sergeant (3rd Class) from the 2nd Artillery Regiment.
According to the GSDF, in March 2021 the sergeant brought out a real knife during an off-duty mock combat training session, misjudged the distance, and "stabbed" a junior soldier, causing an injury that took two weeks to heal.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
'I'll teach you for real, in actual combat!'
That's the YouTuber, right?
> It came to light in January 2024 after a soldier not involved reported it to a superior, and it took about two and a half years to nail down the facts before reaching a disciplinary decision.
Two and a half years to 'handle' a stabbing case — that's some impressive maneuvering, lol
That's definitely not the whole story.
This guy probably screwed up something else, and they just pinned this incident on him as the official charge.
Something for the youth to really look forward to.
Can't wait, right?
Eventually they'll probably stand you next to the target and open fire with live rounds.
According to Asahikawa base, the knife wasn't standard training gear — it was the personal property of a soldier in his 30s. They say there was no prior trouble between the two soldiers.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/24a367dd58a6d0b8fa597811b3f7be24dc9c245f
His own personal knife, huh, lmaooo
You know exactly what that means, lmaooo
First of all, why is he carrying a personal knife around in the first place?
And it was unsheathed, and he stabbed someone with it — by rights they should be arresting him for violating the Swords and Firearms Control Law.
What on earth is the Defense Ministry thinking, lol
Discovered in '24
Investigation wrapped up in '26
And the knife was his own personal property
This whole thing is a mess…
Well, going by the timeline alone, it looks like they tried to sweep it under the rug at first, it leaked three years later, and they dragged it out for as long as they possibly could — that's basically it.
A supremely half-hearted after-the-fact report, dressed up as respect for civilian control.
I bet this guy just ticked off some higher-up, and they went digging for anything they could officially charge him with.
That one was about someone deliberately swapping a real sword for the prop and killing someone with it during filming.
Oh, the Kobayashi Nenji episode?
Furuhata asked to do the 'catch the blade bare-handed' trick, and they actually used a real sword on him — cracked me up.
Once you knock 'em down, finish it — stab right away!
It's like bringing your own personal Zastava pistol (a firearms brand) to shooting practice, shooting and injuring a police officer with it, and getting off with just a suspension.
Normally that'd be an outright dismissal plus arrest for weapons violations and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
If it's Asahikawa, that's basically normal.
So on the second 'accident,' he was clearly aware he was holding a real knife.
The article's just worded badly.
He misjudged the distance and stabbed him.
Can't you work that out?
Do you believe everything written down, word for word?
Seems like literally anything goes now.
By any normal standard, this should've been handed over to the police as a stabbing case.
It wasn't official training and it wasn't issued gear, so why wasn't this ever reported to the police? Makes no sense.
but you can't mistake rubber for an actual blade, lol
Well, it was his personal knife to begin with, so…
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Disciplinary cases within the Self-Defense Forces tend to take a long time to investigate, and in this instance the matter only surfaced because a soldier not directly involved reported it to a superior — part of why so much time elapsed between the incident (March 2021), its discovery (January 2024), and the disciplinary action (September 2026). Opinions on the thread split mainly over two points: ‘why did it take this long to come out,’ and ‘why wasn’t this prosecuted as a violation of the Swords and Firearms Control Law, given that a personal blade was brought into a training setting.’ Some suspected a cover-up or special treatment, while others argued that a long timeline isn’t unusual given how internal investigations work. Readers should note that what’s being reported isn’t an official unit training exercise but an unofficial, off-duty ‘mock combat training’ session; that the knife used was personal property rather than issued equipment; and that the victim’s injury took about two weeks to heal. The names of both the offender and the victim, along with the specifics of their relationship within the unit, have not been made public, so the details can’t be confirmed beyond what’s in the source article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread ‘[Asahikawa] GSDF ‘mock combat training’ — soldier accidentally stabs junior with a ‘real knife’ instead of the rubber training knife‘.
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