A police officer who was attacked at a police box in Osaka Prefecture in 2019 has expressed his desire to support crime victims using his experience, as he marked five years since the attack on Sunday.
"I want to help victims feel better, even if only slightly, because I understand their positions," Suzunosuke Kose, 31, now having the rank of senior police officer, said in his first interview with media outlets since the attack.
Kose was stabbed multiple times by a knife-wielding man in the left chest and both thighs in front of a police box in the city of Suita, where he worked, at around 5:40 a.m. on June 16, 2019. The attack left him unconscious and in a critical condition.