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Police in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, said Friday they have arrested a 68-year-old man after his 63-year-old wife was found dead in their home on Thursday night.
Police found the body of Noriko Sato, a pharmacist, at around 10:20 p.m. Thursday after her elder sister contacted them to say she hadn’t heard from her in awhile.
The doors and windows of house were all locked when police arrived. They said Sato had several external injuries after having been beaten and was confirmed dead at the scene.
Sato lived alone with her husband Shigeru. He had not been seen for a few days but on Friday afternoon, accompanied by a lawyer, he turned himself in at a police box in Tokyo.
Police said he has admitted to killing his wife.
Editor's note: Story has been updated to show that the victim's husband has been arrested.
© Japan Today
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sensei258
Enough of the family killing family stories. Maybe you should create a family murder section separate from the crime section, so that we can read about other crimes without seeing this depressing crap.
The Original Wing
That's an interesting sentence
Disillusioned
There are some people who believe JT likes to sensationalise these family murders to increase their viewers. However, if you watch the TV news as well, you will see that, these family murders are very common, hence their frequency in the news.
Daniel Naumoff
I can tell that at least mainstream Russian and Czech media do not make such a distinction when indexing their news on websites and in newspapers. I guess the sections are separate in countries where such occurrences are rather rare, compared to typical kind of crime. For example, in Russia family murder would be almost exclusively drunk argument gone wrong. In Czech Republic I think it is about critical children neglect by mothers, mostly. Either way such articles appear once in half a year, and I have never seen any news source dividing family-crime and normal-crime into their own sections.