Man arrested for holding daughter hostage at knifepoint in Kagawa

A 50-year-old man was arrested Friday for holding his daughter hostage with a knife and locking himself inside his home in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, police said. Yusuke Murakami, a part-time worker, released his 26-year-old daughter about an hour after police officers arrived at the scene and persuaded him to surrender. The daughter was unharmed.

When police arrived at the scene in response to an emergency call from his 57-year-old wife, Murakami threatened to kill his daughter and kill himself as well, and locked himself inside the living room on the first floor, they said. "I had a quarrel with my wife and became outraged. I did not intend to harm my daughter," he was quoted by police as saying after his arrest.