The Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo Prosecutors Office has indicted a 91-year-old man for killing his 92-year-old wife at the nursing home where they both resided in Hamura City.
According to the indictment, Tadashi Morita strangled his wife, Tsuneko, in her room, with an electric appliance cord on June 18, Kyodo news reported.
After his arrest, Morita was quoted by police as saying he was ready to die too so he could remarry his wife in heaven.
© Japan Today
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xin xin
Report is too terse and incomplete.
Wesley
I've heard that in Japan, people on their death beds sometimes ask their significant other to take their life. In some twisted sense, they may feel that they'd rather die in the hands of their loved one.
sir_bentley28
Well that's a first! Usually it's because they were tired of taking care of the other or some sort of continuous bickering and backering for some time. But this? A sad, beautiful and ugly story.
tora
A true tragedy in a Shakespearean sense.
Aly Rustom
Morita was quoted by police as saying he was ready to die too so he could remarry his wife in heaven.
THAT I've never heard before.
sakurasuki
Old person eliminating another old person, that's really news in Japan.