Mainichi: Professor fatally stabbed in bathroom at Chuo University in Tokyo
A 45-year-old professor has died after being found collapsed in a bathroom at Tokyo's Chuo University on Wednesday with multiple stab wounds, police said. Hajime Takakubo, a professor at the science and engineering faculty of the university in Bunkyo-ku, was found collapsed at around 10:30 a.m. He died about an hour after being rushed to hospital. He had several stab wounds in the back and to other parts of his body. According to police, a student saw a man who looked in his 30s leave the bathroom, and another student said he passed a man dressed in black in a corridor near the bathroom. Police believe the suspect may have bloodstains over his clothes. Takakubo was scheduled to have a class from 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday. The bathroom was near his research room. No security procedures were in place for entering the university and anyone could enter the campus. Takakubo earned a Master's degree at Sophia University in Tokyo. He became associate professor of engineering at Chuo University in 1997 and started serving as a professor there in 2003. His specialty field was analog integrated circuits, according to the university's Web site.