A woman in her 40s and her daughter who is under the age of 10 were found bleeding from knife wounds in a house in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, on Saturday.
Police believe the mother stabbed her daughter and then herself, NHK reported. The mother later died in hospital, and the daughter is in a critical condition, police said Sunday.
According to police, the woman and her child were visiting her parents’ home for the weekend. At around 7 p.m. Saturday, a call was made to 119 from the house by the deceased woman’s sister who also lives there, in which she said, “My sister and my niece are lying in a room and they are covered in blood."
The two had stab wounds to their necks and a kitchen knife was found in the room. The mother daughter remained unconscious on Sunday.
© Japan Today
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owzer
Take your child to a relative's house or to social services. Then do what you must. Don't kill your child.
owzer
suspected? not attempted?
smithinjapan
Sigh... and another mother tries to take her child's life and then her own here. I hope the child pulls through and gets all the love the world has to offer. Obviously the woman who should have given it most wasn't capable of it. Glad she's gone, but I truly hope the child pulls through.
DanteKH
Never heard anything like this happening so often in any other country in this World, not even in the backward 3rd world countries.
Those news are becoming so often, that one would wonder if the root cause of all this is not deeply rooted in this particular culture and the inability to express one's feelings and emotions, like the rest of the world is doing. Keeping everything to yourself until you crack and explode inside.
grc
Too many of these stories. Can we get back to ones about ovwerourism?
OssanAmerica
The practice of Shinju 心中 goes back to the early Edo period (1688) and refers to lovers committing suicide togther. This article represents Oya-ko Shinju, a parent and child dying togther. There is also Ikka-shinju, an entire family dying together.
The practice was outlawed as early as 1722 but the practice has not fully disappeared as an ultimate act of devotion and honor. Under today's laws a surviving party can be charged with murder or assisting suicide.
falseflagsteve
Pure evil is amongst us at all times. How can.a mother do this to her own child? Dark forces are at play here, we must all remain vigilant and protect our loved ones.