Man tries to chop off hand in Japanese protest

A man tried to chop off his left hand with a 15-inch machete in front of Japan’s parliament building today, apparently to protest against Japan’s policy towards North Korea.

The 54-year-old man approached the building’s front gates in a car, stepped out, silently placed his left hand against the bonnet and swiftly brought the machete down around his left wrist, according to Tokyo police official Hideyuki Yoshioka.