TOKYO - Major university hospitals in Tokyo have received abarrage of bomb threats linked to demands that medical schoolsincrease their admissions, a news report and authorities said Monday.
No explosives had been found so far at 11 hospitals targeted,Kyodo News agency said. Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed that 11locations had received such threats.
The reported threats come as police have bolstered their presencein train stations and other public places during the campaign forparliamentary elections next week. An anonymous bomb threat last weekforced the evacuation of an airliner in northern Japan.
The letters said the bomb attacks would come within 45 days, andat least some of the threats also criticized universities for notaccepting enough applicants to their medical schools, Kyodo Newsagency said.
A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity inaccordance with official practice, confirmed a link between theschool admissions and the bomb threats, adding that the letters weresimilarly phrased and appeared to come from the same author orauthors.
"Unless the number of admissions to medical schools is doublednext year, there will be a large-scale terrorist attack," Kyodoquoted a typical letter as saying.
It was not clear whether the writers were threatening to attackthe hospitals or whether they had other targets in mind, the reportsaid.
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