Tatsuhiko Hirano, a 40-year-old unemployed man was arrested for allegedly attacking five to death in the Japanese city of Sumoto.
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>Japanese media have named the attacker as Tatsuhiko Hirano. Reports say he was found with blood on his clothes and initially admitted to the killing.
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear.
Police found the bodies of two women in their 50s and 60s and the body of a man in his 60s at one house at the site.
A couple in their 80s were found dead in another building nearby.