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Man, woman found dead in apartment in apparent murder-suicide

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The bodies of a man in his 60s and a woman in her 80s were found in a municipal apartment in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Saturday, in what police believe was a murder-suicide.

According to police, the building manager went to a nearby koban (police box) at around 4 p.m. to say that he was unable to contact the tenants in the 4th-floor apartment, Kyodo News reported. 

Police entered the locked apartment using the manager's key and found the two bodies. The woman’s body was lying on her side on a futon. She had three stab wounds to her upper body, police said, adding that a bloodstained knife was on the floor beside her.

The man’s naked body was found in the bathtub. There were no signs of external injury on the body. An autopsy will be held to determine the cause of death of the man.

Police said the apartment was rented by the man and the woman was his mother. Police believe he may have killed his mother and then himself. There were no signs of forced entry or that anyone had ransacked the apartment.

Local media quoted the building manager as saying the tenants were two months behind in the rent.

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... sad. Got to be strong to live in this world these days. ............................................R.I.P.

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Crime is skyrocketing.

No it's not. That's just hysteria.

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Imagine sitting in your Konan eating cup noodles, when an apartment manager pops in and asks you to open a door. You walk in and find this…

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Stranger: No it's not. That's just hysteria.

Incorrect totally wrong

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"...tenants were two months behind in the rent."

Terrible to have read this. I guess it's easy for us to be experts on these matters but the truth is we don't know the mindsets of these people. I feel for them.

...........................................................R.I.P

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MunbaiRocks: Totally correct and the number of people in this position is very large. You seem to have the same info I get and it every week. To say it just hysteria is off the cuff remark and lacking actual knowledge of their community. because this is everywhere in big numbers.

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Michael Machida - I guess it's easy for us to be experts on these matters but the truth is we don't know the mindsets of these people. I feel for them.

The mindset of the mother was most likely intense pain and sadness at being stabbed to death by her own son. This wasn't a double-suicide, you know.

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To say it just hysteria is off the cuff remark

It's hysteria. The numbers show crime is not skyrocketing, or even up in any significant amount over pre-pandemic levels.

People read about a few bad incidents in the paper, for a country with 125 million, and suddenly they're Chicken Little, and the sky is falling.

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