VERONICA PEDROSA, CNN ANCHOR: Tokyo police are searching for a female suspect who allegedly stabbed a teacher while trying to force her way into a kindergarten. The attack is the second at a Japanese school in less than two weeks. Marina Kamimura has more on the stabbing, and the growing fears among Japanese about the safety of their schools.</s>MARINA KAMIMURA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Police say they rushed to the scene after receiving a phone call at 8:30 in the morning, saying that a women had stabbed a teacher in the arms and leg at a kindergarten in western Tokyo before she ran away. "The teacher is in shock because she, of course, never thought that she would be attacked," says this school official. "But she has walked to the hospital on her own." While the teacher's injuries were not life threatening, and officials say that no children were nearby at the time of the attack, roughly an hour before classes normally start at the Takachiho Kindergarten, Tuesday's attack comes just 11 days after eight children were killed, and 15 other students and teachers injured after a man armed with a kitchen knife allegedly slashed his way through four grade one and two classes at the Ikeda Elementary School in western Japan. Since then, schools across the nation, which generally promoted an open door policy with their respective communities until now, have stepped up security, posting guards at gates for instance, adding extra alarms, or reinforcing neighborhood patrols, fearing copycat attacks. Takachiho officials say their school is no exception. They say that after the Ikeda attack, they decided to reinforce their school's 24-hour security patrol with their own staff, during times when the kindergarten's gates had to be open. Local media say this teacher, though, was attacked through a gate after the assailant demanded that she open it, while trying to hand her a package. Marina Kamimura, CNN, Tokyo.
Another Knife Attack in Japanese School