An employee at a jewellery shop in Tokyo has been hailed a hero after thwarting an attempted robbery and giving chase after the three suspects fled. But the hero of the hour wasn’t armed with a Taser or pepper spray, but with a weapon invented hundreds of years ago by samurai warriors: the sasumata, a pole with two prongs attached to the end.
A jewelry store employee in Japan chased away robbers using a sasumata, a pole weapon used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. pic.twitter.com/FyHa3oBI3Q
— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 30, 2023
