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Kagoshima prefectural police have sent papers on a 77-year-old man to prosectors after he was arrested on suspicion of murdering his 53-year-old son on Friday.
According to police reports, Tsutomu Sato fatally stabbed his son Akiome with a knife on a street near their home at around 7 p.m., Sankei Shimbun reported. The victim died from stab wounds inflicted to his stomach shortly after arrival at a hospital.
According to multiple eyewitnesses, Sato was carrying what appeared to be a Japanese sword after the stabbing. Neighbors also told local media that the father and son often argued, and their voices could be heard in the neighborhood.
© Japan Today
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Do the hustle
Wow! These family murders just never stop in Japan. In other countries you read about murders involving robberies or fights in pubs, etc. but not in Japan because it’s a safe country - until you go home.
Spitfire
Henny,
There are far more murders involving family members in Japan than the UK.
Of course Japan is safer than the UK in every way except intra-family killings, but to say Japan doesn't have a problem with family members killing each other is rather native I feel.
Henny Penny
@Do the hustle
What other countries are you thinking of? I read British papers everyday. No shortage of reports on family murders in British tabloids. I rather doubt that every pub fight or robbery in London makes it into the news. If you want more crime stories in Japan, the different police precincts in Tokyo have e-mail alerts you can subscribe to.
You do, of course, have to be able to read Japanese.