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Two girls, aged 5 and 3, and their 40-year-old mother were found lying on the floor, bleeding from knife wounds to the stomach, by their father at their home in Osaka on Thursday night. The two girls died later in hospital, police said.
According to police, Kazuya Ogawa, 33, called 119 at around 10:30 p.m., reporting that his wife had stabbed their daughters and herself at their home in Higashinari Ward. The children, Risa, 5, and Juri, 3, were taken to hospital where they were later pronounced dead. Their mother was also taken to hospital with a knife wound to her abdomen, and was in a stable condition on Friday afternoon, police said.
Ogawa said he found all three in the children’s bedroom when he arrived home from work.
Police said there were no traces of the room being ransacked, and police believe the woman stabbed her daughters and then herself in a suicide attempt. A blood-stained knife and some notes, believed to be suicide notes, were found in the bedroom.
Police said they will wait until the woman recovers before questioning her.
© Japan Today
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Vince Black
Savage witch. She couldn't even kill herself but killed her two innocent kids. If she recovers she needs to be tried for murder, and hopefully the death penalty
Cogito Ergo Sum
" Safest country " . Peace and safety is not only the absence of war. The smallest part of any society is the individual. If individuals have no inner peace, incidents like these happen.
Realization
Agreed with @ Cogito
If individuals have no inner peace, incidents like these happen.
Stress life in Japan has no-care by GOVT. to spend budget how to solve peoples issue
But they increase budget of Defense, which has no future.
Birth rate going down and down, later other country will rule and enjoy this economy
smithinjapan
And AGAIN we have to read about a woman who decided to murder who children... day after day after day in Japan. The only positive this is that she MIGHT face justice since she failed her own suicide. Of course, many will support her, blame the husband, blame "postponed" PPD, and she won't get much of a sentence anyway, so probably not, but at least she will spend some time in some institution and be forced to face the fact that she looks at the two beautiful creatures she helped create and shoved a knife in them time and again until they were dead, and they will never return.
In Japan, the general rule is you kill two and you get the death penalty. I am curious to see how this one works out. I bet she gets 2 years, max.
Strangerland
Well, yeah. It’s a nation of 130 million about which we’re reading the news of. Any population that size has these incidents.
Toasted Heretic
And again, another barbaric call for a woman to be executed. There needs to be more mental health services to prevent these tragedies. Who knows what she went through to arrive at such a horrendous state?
(And perhaps a bit of scrutiny on people who repeatedly call for women to be executed.)
Disillusioned
That is a very weak justification considering the regularity of family murders in Japan. Kids killing parents, parents killing kids, spouses killing spouses, cousins killing cousins are at least a weekly thing, sometime more than once a week. And, my personal recent favorite, that woman that jumped off a building with her one-year-old daughter a fortnight ago. This is a mental health issue. It is not a cultural issue. 27% of Japanese adults have been diagnosed with some kind of mental health disorder, the most common being severe depression. These are only the diagnosed cases. Obviously, this woman was not one of the diagnosed cases. You can try to justify it with numbers, but unless you have comparable per-capita statistics, it is just rhetoric. Oh, and by the way, Japan's current population is just under 126 million.
Haaa Nemui
Justification is the wrong word there. Maybe a weak argument but not justification.
I've never been able to find this statistic although you've mentioned it many times. The nearest I've been able to find is 24%, and not at any single time but at some point in their life. It's a very different statement when real context is added.
Bugle Boy of Company B
Awkward sentence structure. Thought for a second the father had done it.
Do the hustle
Pardon? He has stated that people should accept and expect such incidents and not be surprised by them due to the size of the population. That sounds like a justification to me.
mmwkdw
Let's not jump to conclusions here... is the Husband innocent ? Could he, actually be the one trying to knock them off. We may find out more once she recovers enough to be interviewed.
Even if she is guilty, for those who wish the Death Sentence upon her, I say "No", not in this case.
She has to be made live with what she has done. Though, It may be prudent that she should loose the right to have further kids - and be permanently Sterilized (if Guilty). Certainly a Psychiatric review will need to be conducted upon her and possibly upon her Husband - what caused this situation to arise, were there no signs of a problem beforehand ? There's a lot more to this case, will "Japan Today" provide updates in future upon it ?
Strangerland
What? Who is justifying them? I don't even condone violence, much less murder. Justifying it? Try to keep it in the realm of reality please.
I haven't stated people should just accept them.
It's weird that people argue against things I've never said, but are angry at me for those things that I haven't said. Why not just argue the things I've actually said? And why do people feel the need to make up things I've said.
As for expecting such incidents? In a group of 130 million people? Well I don't know that I "expect" them - I'd prefer they weren't there. But some people try to claim this is somehow a Japanese phenomenon - it's not. Any group of 130 million people will have these incidents.
Haaa Nemui
Yeah he didn't say we should accept or expect these incidents at all. The inference is that we shouldn't be surprised or that these incidents shouldn't be unexpected due to the size of the population. It's rationalising not justifying. We all know nothing justifies it.
Strangerland
Yeah. Though, I don't know that rationalizing is the right word, as these incidents aren't rational.
Basically I'm just pointing out that criticizing Japan for this is misplaced aggression. We are only reading about it in Japan, because we're in Japan. It's a big world out there, and lots of bad stuff happens outside of Japan.
Haaa Nemui
Oh I agree but I thought it was about the best single word that could be used. Definitely not justification. That's why I didn't use it in my initial comment.
serendipitous1
It's all about family (the group) and not the individual. You take out the kids (who you decided to create and later decided to destroy) then yourself so you and they can't be a burden to anyone, including to the husband. Of course we can't understand that logic but that's how it sometimes works in Japan.
Daniel Naumoff
There definitely is some logic behind such actions. It is however so twisted the nation had better start an all-out campaign against it already. I wonder what goes through the people's minds in Japan when they read those news on a daily/weekly basis. The very same mothers with little children, are they horrified, are they understanding of the culprit, do they feel like there is no problem on the national level? Something clearly needs to change in the mindset of the mass. Japan's mass is no exception.
Connor Äb
I don't know what drives people to do such things, but if I had to make a guess I would attribute it to some form of inner turmoil caused perhaps by familial angst or emotional trauma. In any case, it would behoove law enforcement there to seek help for this woman, in addition to questioning.