The Osaka District Court has sentenced a 27-year-old unemployed man to 22 years in prison for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, in 2024.
According to the ruling on Friday, Masaru Nishimitsu, who lives in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, stabbed to death Karen Watanabe, a university student, at her apartment on May 18, 2024, TV Asahi reported.
The prosecution claimed Nishimatsu killed Watanabe because he didn't want her to know that he was unemployed and had a large amount of debt.
Nishimitsu called 110 from a hotel room at around 1:20 p.m. on the day of the murder and said he couldn’t pay his hotel bill and that he had taken a lot of sleeping pills. When police went to the hotel, Nishimitsu told them he had killed his girlfriend.
Police went to Watanabe’s apartment and found her body. A blood-stained kitchen knife was found near her body which had multiple stab wounds.
© Japan Today
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Deo Gratias
Should have gotten life. Or the death penalty.
Lindsay
He killed her because he didn’t want her to know he was unemployed and had debts? That just does not make any sense at l
WoodyLee
20 years is a BREEZE , this is so Unjust and Unfair to the victim and her family, May she Rest in Peace.
WoodyLee
If Japan continues on this path of light sentences for killers might as well not sentence them at all, then watch murder rates go up to Hell.