Prosecutors decide not to try woman, two daughters for abandoning body

Not abandonment? How about murder?

Uh oh...

Perhaps the police have something to hide?

Are they thinking they should have acted further last year?

Something fishy over here.

Last paragraph implies that it could be three cases of insanity. Although unusual for three cases of it generally speaking there is nothing unusual about people being declared not fit for trial on the grounds of insanity.

WTF? You need to explain why they are getting let off for murder.

Absolutely ridiculous. They murdered a man and left his body for a month, pleaded guilty to abandonment of the corpse, and are getting off Scott free for all of it. Only in Japan... ONLY in Japan.

Absolutely ridiculous. They murdered a man and left his body for a month, pleaded guilty to abandonment of the corpse, and are getting off Scott free for all of it. Only in Japan... ONLY in Japan.

No. There is nothing that says they murdered him. No. They didn't plead guilty. No. Not only in Japan. I suggest you re-read.

Haaa Nemui: "No. There is nothing that says they murdered him."

Nope, nothing at all:

"Police said they had been consulted by members of the family last year after a dispute between Yamauchi and her husband about him hiding his retirement pay, escalated into abuse."

And certainly not the fact that they lied about him leaving a month ago and then finding his corpse in a bedroom in the apartment. Nothing at all.

You're right I misread the part about them pleading "guilty", though.

But yes, only in Japan for the rest. Or, are they not getting off Scott-free for a dead body being in the apartment for at least a good while, even if the police can't find evidence of murder? Where else does this happen, then?

I don't see the problem. what's to say he went into his room , closed the door after the row, then the women ignored him and the smell which could be explained as " Well we're not going in there to clean up or search for his pension" If you are married to a Japanese woman they never give a regretful acknowledgment of an offense or failure

@Smith - again... The last paragraph implies possible insanity. People all over the world get let off due to being declared unfit for trial in such instances. Not only in Japan. We don't know if that's the case but everything you have written is pure speculation including your suggestion that the paragraph you quoted implies murder. Quit the Japan bashing just for the sake of it.

Haaa Nemui: "The last paragraph implies possible insanity. People all over the world get let off due to being declared unfit for trial in such instances."

If they are institutionalized in the wake of not going to jail. They don't get a free pass. So, again. Please show us where.

"We don't know if that's the case..."

And of course there's that little nugget, too.

"but everything you have written is pure speculation including your suggestion that the paragraph you quoted implies murder."

And once again you COMPLETELY ignore the fact that even if it was not, they left a body lying there for quite some time -- all three of them, obviously in agreement to do so, and all suddenly "possibly insane". Are you suggesting that if they are found mentally incompetent then that's it? No charges at all and that's everything?

"Quit the Japan bashing just for the sake of it."

Not bashing, just pointing out the facts. Show me where else three women share the same story about a man having left a month ago and lie about the body being where it is, then all get tested for insanity, then all get off Scott-free despite the fact that members of the family had reported abuse before, and that they were competent enough to have done that, all kept to the same lies, and pleaded not guilty to charges. Until then, yes, ONLY in Japan.

Wanna get away with murder in the Japanese court system? Just act insane and cross your fingers in hope that they buy it...

And once again you COMPLETELY ignore the fact that even if it was not, they left a body lying there for quite some time -- all three of them, obviously in agreement to do so, and all suddenly "possibly insane". Are you suggesting that if they are found mentally incompetent then that's it? No charges at all and that's everything? 

And once again make a false suggestion. They were charged. After they were charged they pleaded not guilty. And then this.

Since their arrest, the three women have been undergoing psychiatric examinations, and based on the results of those tests, prosecutors said they had decided not to try the women in court, without elaborating further.

Can you see the part about no further elaboration? Do you know what that means? What you think you know... you don't.

"We know nothing about that rotting corpse laying on the floor in the other room"

Riiiiiiiiiiight

More likely that the prosecutor, not knowing or being able to prove who was responsible, decided to drop the case so that his conviction rate wouldn't suffer

Conviction rate is more important than Justice

Mariko Yamauchi and her two daughters, Kei and Yuka, left the body of Yamauchi’s 63-year-old husband, in their apartment for more than a month.

Oh Japan! How you find ways to continuously confuse me with your multi-directional laws astounds me! How is this not an abandonment of body case?

I've read about people in the same room/car with the body getting arrested for "abandoning a body", but these 3 left the body for more than a month and there's no charges?