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Man arrested for strangling 84-year-old father to death

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Police in Fukui City have arrested a 57-year-old man on suspicion of killing his ailing 84-year-old father with whom he lived.

According to police, Kaichi Hirose, an association staff member, has admitted to strangling his father, Ichi Hirose, with a cord at around 10 p.m. last Thursday, but denied intending to kill him, Fuji TV reported. Police quoted Hirose as saying he was stressed out from caring for his father and strangled him “out of frustration.”

On Friday morning, Hirose called 119 and said his father wasn’t moving and that his body was cold. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. After an autopsy showed the victim had been strangled, police arrested Hirose on Saturday.

Hirose was the sole caregiver for his father and was responsible for feeding and clothing him on a daily basis. He told police things were not going well and he was getting irritated.

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I do have some sympathy for his prior situation, my sister-in-law spent years caring for her ailing father and then her mother with no chance to live her own life or do anything but work hard. But she never felt the need to kill either one of her parents.

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has admitted to strangling his father, Ichi Hirose, with a cord at around 10 p.m. last Thursday, but denied intending to kill him, Fuji TV reported. Police quoted Hirose as saying he was stressed out from caring for his father and strangled him “out of frustration.”

This scenario just keeps repeating itself over and over again. I personally know at least en people who are this trap. They are just waiting for their ailing parents (or in-laws) to die so they can get their life back. There something drastically wrong the Japanese system. These people pay pension and health insurance all their lives for 40 years or more, but get nothing for it except a poverty line payment. This old fella should have been in a care facility, but aged care facilities are not part of the health insurance or pension and must be paid for by the family. The private ones charge in excess of ¥20,000 per day. There are a few state run care facilities, but they are overflowing with patients and are not free either. Yet, Japan can expand its defense budget by ten billion bucks to satisfy their paranoia. Priorities?

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I am sure he could have found a care giver to tend to his fathers needs.

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What about home for the ages, im sure his father has pension to pay for.

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