Police in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, are investigating the death of a 56-year-old man whose body was found by a doctor making a home visit.
According to police, the doctor arrived for a scheduled visit at around 2:45 p.m. on Friday but found the first-floor apartment door locked, Kyodo News reported. The doctor looked through a window, which was also locked, and saw the resident, Naoki Sunaga, lying on a tatami floor.
The doctor called police. Sunaga was declared dead at the scene from a knife wound to his stomach.
Police said Sunaga lived alone and that the apartment showed no sign of having been broken into nor ransacked.
© Japan Today
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SwissToni
A man appears to have been killed. That’s an important issue. That’s a concerning level of detachment.
sir_bentley28
Where is your sense of empathy? An old man was murdered and you don't see that as important?
kaimycahl
@zoroto that’s not all you did not get
I don't get the importance of this story... What am I missing?
uaintseeme
Suicide or murder. We may never know.