A man suspected of holding a 15-year-old girl captive in his apartment for two years tried to kill himself with a box cutter after she escaped, investigators said March 28. 
 
 Kabu Terauchi, a 23-year-old resident of Tokyo’s Nakano Ward, is being treated at a hospital in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, west of Tokyo, for injuries on the right side of his neck that are serious but not life-threatening. Police plan to arrest Terauchi, who had been placed on the wanted list, after he recovers. 
 
 Terauchi is believed to have abducted the junior high school student from Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, just north of Tokyo, in March 2014, and kept her under restraint until she escaped and was taken into protective custody on March 27. 
 
 According to the prefectural police of Shizuoka and Saitama, a newspaper delivery man reported a blood-covered man walking on a street in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, around 3:15 a.m. on March 28. 
 
 Officers from the Ito Police Station found the man and confirmed his identity with his driver’s license. 
 
 Terauchi, who graduated from Chiba University this month, was carrying a box cutter and a wallet. He said he used the blade in a suicide attempt, but police could not interrogate him because he was bleeding heavily, they said. 
 
 According to the Saitama prefectural police investigation headquarters for the case, the girl escaped from Terauchi’s apartment room in Nakano Ward on March 27 after he left the home to “go shopping in Akihabara.” 
 
 She called police from a public telephone at JR Higashi-Nakano Station around 12:30 p.m., and police officers from the Nakano Police Station immediately took her into protective custody. 
 
 She told police that she was under “full-time, de facto confinement” by her abductor. She also said she was “abducted in front of my home in Saitama by being forced into a car by an unfamiliar man.” 
 
 Saitama police obtained an arrest warrant for Terauchi, and investigators searched his home early on March 28. 
 
 The girl disappeared after leaving her junior high school shortly after 3 p.m. on March 10, 2014. A first-grader at the time, she was last seen chatting with a young man in front of her home in Asaka. 
 
 Her mother found a memo, apparently written by the daughter, in the family’s post box later the day that asked the family not to search for her. The family immediately filed a missing persons report with Saitama police. ||||| A man was detained Monday in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, on suspicion of abducting a Saitama girl who was found the previous day after disappearing two years ago, police said. 
 
 Kabu Terauchi, 23, was detained near Futo Station at around 3 a.m. after police responded to an emergency call from a newspaper delivery man. He was found standing in the road with a box cutter and covered in blood. 
 
 The girl, now 15, was placed in protective custody on Sunday after telling police she had been his captive since March 2014, when a stranger forced her into a car in Saitama Prefecture. 
 
 Terauchi, who bore neck injuries when he was found, did not resist when police took him into custody and was identified by his driver’s license. He said he attempted to kill himself by slashing his throat with the cutter, an investigative source said. He was taken to hospital and is expected to be discharged in a few days. 
 
 The police said they plan to arrest the Chiba University graduate after he recovers and charge him with confining the girl. 
 
 Terauchi is suspected of tricking the girl into accompanying him by falsely telling her that her parents were getting divorced and that he would take her to a lawyer’s office, according to the source. 
 
 Terauchi graduated from Chiba University’s engineering department earlier this month and was set to start working in April, the school confirmed Monday. 
 
 The teenager said she was initially taken to the city of Chiba, where police believe she was held for a long time before Terauchi moved to an apartment near Higashi-Nakano Station in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward last month. 
 
 She also said Terauchi sometimes took her outside, but the police suspect she couldn’t escape on those rare occasions because he kept a close eye on her, they said. She also said he always kept her locked in. 
 
 She managed to escape on Sunday when she found the door unlocked and called police from a public phone at the station shortly after noon, the police said. 
 
 Terauchi was out at the time and had said he was heading to Akihabara to buy a mobile phone, she was quoted as saying. 
 
 “The man went outside, saying he would go to Akihabara. Usually the door was locked from the outside, but it was not today,” she was quoted as saying. 
 
 Before calling the police, however, she telephoned her mother and told her she was at Higashi-Nakano Station. Her mother then told her to contact the police, and separately made an emergency call. 
 
 The girl was escorted to Niiza Police Station in Saitama on Sunday and reunited with her family, the police said. 
 
 “I’m really relieved. I want to spend time with my daughter so that we can regain time we’ve lost,” the father of the girl, whose name is being withheld, said in a written statement. 
 
 A Facebook page believed to have been created by the suspect, originally from Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, says he attended an aviation school in the U.S. It also carries a photo of him posing with a small airplane. 
 
 The website of the California aviation school says he got a private pilot’s license in September 2013. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s airman database contains his name and an Ikeda address. 
 
 The girl was last seen on March 10, 2014, when she was speaking with a young man in front of her home in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture. 
 
 On the same day, a note was found in a letter box at her home in what appeared to be her handwriting, saying, “Don’t look for me.” 
 
 Police then began looking into her disappearance, soliciting the public for leads. When she was taken into protective custody, the girl still had her student ID with her, the police said.
– On March 10, 2014, a Japanese mother found a note in her mailbox. "Don't look for me," it read. The handwriting was that of her daughter, who essentially vanished on that day. The last sighting of the teen had been outside her home a few hours earlier, when she was seen talking to a young man. The now-15-year-old on Sunday escaped from what police say was a 2-year captivity at the hands of a 23-year-old. The Asahi Shimbum reports a bloodied Kabu Terauchi was seen by a newspaper delivery man at 3:15am Monday; police were called, and the suspect, who told police he had tried to kill himself with the box cutter in his hand, was apprehended. The bleeding was too significant to allow for an interrogation, but police say the girl, who is from Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, just north of Tokyo, broke out of Terauchi's Tokyo apartment when he left to go shopping and apparently left the door unlocked. She called police from a payphone, and told them she had been "abducted in front of my home in Saitama by being forced into a car by an unfamiliar man." A source tells the Kyodo news agency that Terauchi is said to have fooled the girl into getting into his car by saying her parents were divorcing and that he would drive her to a law office. Police plan to formally arrest Terauchi, who in March graduated from Chiba University's engineering department, and charge him with kidnapping. (Police say these missing sisters were held captive for 11 months.)