Police in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, said Saturday they have arrested a 20-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of killing his 66-year-old grandfather with whom he lived.
According to police, Hiroki Kawasaki has admitted to killing Masaichi Kawasaki at around 2:30 p.m. Friday by beating him several times about the head with a blunt object, Fuji TV reported.
The suspect’s 66-year-old grandmother called 119 at around 3:20 p.m. and reported that her husband was collapsed on the floor. When officers arrived at the scene, Masaichi was lying on his back in a room on the second floor of the residence, bleeding from his head injuries. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police said Hiroki was found about four hours later in front of a koban (police box) where he had gone to apparently turn himself in.
Five people live in the house – the victim, his wife, his 87-year-old mother, his younger brother, 63 and the suspect.
Police said Kawasaki has so far given them no motive for killing his grandfather
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Another day another family murder.
Spitfire
For such a 'safety country' the sheer number of inter-family murders is staggering......it is getting on for one-a-day nowadays.
Spitfire
Good points,Big Yen.
There seems to be far too many intra-family murders in Japan.
I wonder what the numbers are in other countries?
Is it because a lot of families in Japan however dysfunctional they may be still live together on a far bigger scale than in the West?
Spitfire
Big Yen,
I agree with you......you can choose your friends but not family and all of that.
Maybe they didn't have the means to get out of Dodge.
Good points,mate.
shogun36
This blunt object guy and the dinner menu killer guy should go meet up and jump off a mountain cliff somewhere.
I guarantee not a tear will be shed anywhere.
garypen
Conspicuously absent: the suspect's mother or father.
saad
so sad news
serendipitous1
spitfire
Although sad, one a day in a country of 125,000,000 only means 365 a year which is actually very low compared to many countries.
shogun36
Maybe you're on to something. For those who are against the death penalty, maybe murderers should be given the choice between prison until they die or being escorted to a coastline cliff where they are able to self-terminate by jumping off themselves. Then it's not really government-sanctioned murder and no mess to clean up as the waves, fish and microbes will eventually do the work.
oldman_13
Something seriously wrong has been going on with society there.
Hercolobus
Very sad.
seadog538
Perhaps the Grandfather had the audacity to suggest to the Grandson that he get a job and support himself. Showa Jidai versus Reiwa perhaps.