Japan has taken one more step away from its claim on being one of the safest countries in the world with the revelation that a Tokyo man has been arrested for building an explosive device with the intention of setting it off on a commuter train.

Yoshihiro Terasawa, 38, facing charges of violating the explosives control law, has admitted to making and possessing the explosives but has denied intending to detonate them, saying, “I was not going to harm people or their assets.”

One of the prosecutors said in an opening statement that Terasawa “was thinking about detonating the explosives on a commuter train on Seibu Railway Co.’s Shinjuku Line, on which the defendant’s nearest station is located, after reading about a method for manufacturing the explosives on the Internet.”

Prosecuters are claiming that Terasawa was envious of other people because he was unable to secure steady employment. Apparently, reports about the deadly 2005 suicide bombings in London served as inspiration.