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rodmartin
iluvyokohama
Why would anyone want to retire in the Philippines? A third world country where people would kill their own mother for a few pesos!
And Japanese would kill their aging parents for free and steal pension from government.
girl_in_tokyo
P. Smith Feb. 22 07:43 am JST
You forgot to mention that they may not be guilty at all - and it is very important to always, always, in reports of any crime, to point out that guilt is not determined until it is adjudicated.
Right?
Oxycodin
I believe so. Shikoku is very cheap in Japan for retirement perhaps
Hiro S Nobumasa
RIP, Madam.
I'm afraid the da-kine UN Human Rights Commission , together with the USA and EU will exert pressure to the PH government to release those kid criminals.
jalan5
"The people of Japan are paying for the U.S. to defend them and the people of Okinawa are bearing the burden of hosting U.S. bases to defend them." There are about 23 US bases in Japan:
https://militarybases.com/overseas/japan/
jalan5
CaptDingleheimer
Do Japanese people retire in the Philippines? I know there's a recent trend for US retirees to move down to the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where things are safe, happy, and the hospitals are pretty good... and where your SS check goes twice as far...
iluvyokohama
Why would anyone want to retire in the Philippines? A third world country where people would kill their own mother for a few pesos! The people of Japan are paying for the U.S. to defend them and the people of Okinawa are bearing the burden of hosting U.S. bases to defend them.
Realization
Is it failure of our Japanese governments that a citizen has to live in overseas after retirement due to lac of financial disability or insufficient pension?
3RENSHO
The criminals were able to gain access to the house by removing a panel in the ceiling of the unit bath.
u_s__reamer
To live as an ex-pat pensioner in the midst of poverty in a country with extreme differences of obscene wealth and mass immiseration is to live dangerously indeed.
Goodlucktoyou
My comment is that I don’t trust Philippine police from my experience and that if japan was involved with its technology and funding, they found the pair.
therougou
@Meiyouwenti
Fixed
lordoflys
It sounds like the motive was robbery and not murder. The fact that she was tied and gagged leads me to believe that the death was a tragic accident during the robbery. I hope justice prevails. It's hit or miss in the PI.
William Bjornson
After 82 years in this place and being pushed around by it's demands, to be made to leave it by yet one more act of blind brutality is profoundly sad. The greatest disappointment in being Human is Humanity itself.
timeon
Despite Philippinos being some of the nicest and happiest people I ever met, the criminality, especially in Manilla is horrible (this is the reason why Duterte has so much popular support). RIP lady, and I hope the criminals will be properly punished.
mariasjapan
This is heartbreaking. What a disgrace for the Philippines!
Meiyouwenti
One of the dangers of living alone in a foreign country. She should have come back to Japan after her husband‘a death. RIP.
Goodlucktoyou
That took about 6 months. I wonder if the Japanese police were involved in the investigation?
Toshihiro
Poor woman, RIP. Good thing the suspects were arrested, let them rot in jail.