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Police in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sunday arrested an unemployed man in his 40s on suspicion of killing his mother by stomping on her at their home.
According to police, the man has admitted to the charge. He was quoted by police as saying he got into an argument with his mother, who was in her 70s, on Saturday night, Sankei Shimbun reported. The man said he lost his temper, knocked his mother down and stomped on her chest several times and hit her with his fists.
He called 110 at around 10 p.m.. The woman was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead early Sunday morning.
© Japan Today
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Mocheake
Unemployed. Living off the mother's dime but ungrateful. Regular occurrence. Poor mother.
kaimycahl
WHERE IS THE LOVE? Where is the respect? The man said he lost his temper, knocked his mother down and stomped on her chest several times and hit her with his fists.
Toshihiro
This is just painful to read, I can't even imagine how ungrateful, selfish and lowlife can one get to be able to do this to one's mother and harm her when you are still living off of her until now. If the legal justice system may let this guy off the hook, he won't be able to get away clean with this in the afterlife.
Michael Machida
Japan needs to open its eyes to what is going on here. Ignoring family murders like its not a criminal act and saying that Japan is a Safety country is part of the problem.
Lindsay
Wow! Anger management issues much? Now he’ll get three meals a day and a roof over his head at the Emperor’s B&B.
snowymountainhell
Sad. Another ill-tempered, unemployed man unable to outrun, much less walk away from, an elderly mother 30 years his senior ?
Today: “The man said he lost his temper, knocked his mother down and stomped on her chest several times and hit her with his fists.” -
Ken Holcomb
I've no doubt this was not the first time this scumbag assaulted his own mother. Now the coward will be living on the taxpayers dime, (yen), with 3 hots and a cot for the rest of his miserable life.
"Spare the rod and spoil the child." And the result was this.
stormcrow
Dammmnn! Your own mother?!! Even if you hated her, you shouldn't have ever done that!
smithinjapan
She probably told him to stop playing Fortnight and look for a job, and he snapped. Does he realize that now that he is going to prison life might actually be a little worse than being protected and cared for by mom? These people never think.
purple_depressed_bacon
What a deadbeat loser. In his 40s, unemployed and living off of his mother's money, and yet is still ungrateful enough to kill her. Disgusting. Lock him up and throw away the key.
Ricky Kaminski13
Nice news piece to start off the week. Latest family on family J murder.
Stomped mother to death…
The Avenger
Hope there's a big portrait of your mum hung in your prison cell as a reminder.
Sven Asai
Yes, that brutal psycho killer should be taken out of daylight.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Whatever they we're arguing about she certainly didn't deserve a stomping
Mickelicious
Two possible readings here:
Hikikomori enraged because the money ran out
OR
Dutiful son who gave up work to look after mother, and finally lost it.
Either way, we could do with a lot more listening, and a lot less useless, overbearing bureaucracy.
Mickelicious
Unrelated to THIS CRIME, but it would appear Japan Today have been (ahem) contacted by someone's lawyers over today's article about the dangers of Aspartame.
40% of global Aspartame supply is made in Japan by the same people who brought you the love that dare not speak it's name, euphemised to "flavour enhancer (amino acid, etc)" on Japanese ingredient lists (aka MSG).
Donald Rumsfeld, the man who bullied the FDA into approving Aspartame, was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 2015.
Hoorah for free speech!
Btang
" knocked his mother down and stomped on her chest several times and hit her with his fists."
that will do it...
TokyoLiving
Family related murders happens in every country, it's not a onlyJapan's problem, as some dramatists want to make it look..
And with all its problems, Japan remains a very, very safe country, safer than most western countries that boast of their "development and democracy"..
Gaijinjland
Idiot. What, mommy refused to give you cash for cigarettes, booze and pachinko? I can’t stand my mother. That’s why I got the heck out at 18, got a degree and then a job and a place of my own.
Michael Machida
"...And with all its problems, Japan remains a very, very safe country, safer than most western countries that boast of their "development and democracy"
I rest my case.