At around 1:40 AM on the morning of February 28, 2022, two young men with faces masked (of course!) and dressed in black broke into a pachinko parlor (Kikona) in Onabake, Ushiku (Tsukuba’s neighbor to the south). They then threatened one of the branch manager with a metal bar of some sort and demanded that he “hand over the money”. They got away with 2,950,000 yen in cash and are still at large.
The police have been able to recover images of the men from surveillance cameras.
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