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Police in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of his parents at their home on Tuesday.
According to police, the two bodies were found on Tuesday afternoon after a neighbor went to a nearby koban (police box) to say there had been no contact with them for awhile, Kyodo News reported. Police said there were no external injuries on the bodies and that an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of their deaths. The couple were in their 70s.
The couple’s son, Yoshiro Shintani, whose occupation is unknown, was not at home when police arrived on Tuesday. He was located and detained in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Police said that between October 2021 and September this year, Shintani's parents had consulted with them on six occasions about their son assaulting them but declined to file any formal complaint. Police, however, issued a warning to Shintani.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Family murder of the day.
Spitfire
@Kobe,
You are right.
This site should introduce a new category called that because it does seem to happen a freakishly high basis.
Sven Asai
That’s an interesting paradox. The warning , issued by police, failed, because he killed his parents, but it also works, because he cannot repeat the murder of his parents.
Speed
Isn't this the tenth or so news story of dead family members discovered in homes in the last two weeks?
Mark
Yet Another Parasite, just unbelievable.
Mark
Simple Q? is this happening in Japan more often than other places, I am sure someone has the answer!!
Meiyouwenti
“Simple Q? is this happening in Japan more often than other places, I am sure someone has the answer!!”
Why don’t you conduct a world-wide crime research to find out the answer.
Mr Kipling
In the UK 49% of female victims were killed by their partner. 10% of males killed by partner. 18% of male victims. 16% of males killed by stranger, only 6% of females.
Over 65% of females killed by family member.
42% of children killed by parent or step-parent.
Yes, the most likely person to kill you is your partner, family member or someone you know. The US is basically the same if you take out the drug related gang shootings.
Sleep with one eye open!
kaimycahl
The couple’s son, Yoshiro Shintani, whose occupation is unknown, perhaps this simply means he had no employment at all and sponged off his parents. The Police said between October 2021 and September this year, Shintani's parents reported he had assaulted them on six occasions but declined to file any formal complaint. WOW that refusal to have him arrested I am assuming because of tough love resulted in their brutal deaths by the hands of their own son who only got a warning from the assaults. The assaults can now stop and the warning can now become hell in jail.
Mr Kipling
If someone assaults you 5 times, you call the police but do not press charges, all you are doing is wasting the police time and telling the criminal to carry on as nothing will be done.
Stephen Chin
Six times = Six times. Yoshiro Shintani raised his hand against his father and mother 6 times too frequently. They were kind to their son Yoshiro for not having pressed charges. He repaid their kindness by taking away life from them for ever. They loved him for fifty long years. He repaid their love with six instances of uncontrollable hate with death during the 6th time. The judge will find Yoshiro Shintani guilty of murdering his father and mother and, 50 years without parole will be a sympathetic sentence.
japancat
Hence the old saying.........'No one really knows what goes on behind closed doors'.