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Police in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested an unemployed 30-year-old woman on a charge of attempted murder after she attacked her 32-year-old brother as he was sleeping.
According to police, the incident occurred at the apartment the siblings share with their mother at around 2 a.m. Wednesday. Sankei Shimbun reported that the sister, identified as Chiiko Sano, attacked her brother with an ax with a 10-cm-long blade. The man woke up and struggled with his sister. Their mother heard the struggle and called 119.
Police said the brother suffered wounds to his neck and left hand. He was taken to hospital where doctors said his injuries are not life-threatening.
Sano was quoted by police as saying she had hated her brother since childhood and that she had bought the ax the day before.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
Wow! Sibling rivalry much? It must be one hell of a family.
Mirai Hayashi
Then move out! Don't live with him...you're a grown @ss woman ///get a fricken life!
DaDude
I have met women here who hate their brothers because the male child tended to be more favored growing up and/or gets away with more. I am glad though that he survived and both of them need to get out of the house. She just made her first step and can live in a room with bars.
Kobe White Bar Owner
"Sibling rivalry sometimes leads to the bitterest competition." Philip Meyer
nath
The good news is that now no one will have the misfortune of marrying this girl for at least a decade or so.
FizzBit
Of course she snapped. But maybe brother is an abusive bully or treated her like a second mother, or worse. Say, Romeo. What about your promise to the He-Man-Woman-Haters-Club?
nakanoguy01
attempted murder? he was sleeping so if she really wanted to kill him, one good whack would have done it. i'm gonna go with DV on this. it was a cry for help.
Wc626
What gets me about this article is that both of them (30&32 yrs. old) still lived with mommy. I feel sorry for the mom, who had to see her son/daughter hating each other all those yrs. Then for mom to call 119 on her own daughter.
Geoff Gillespie
30 and 32 years of age and both still living with mum? Oh right. It's Japan....
nath
Nothing wrong with being in your 30's and helping out mom.
Nathaw
Depending on circumstances. In rural area, 70 and 72 years of age still living with their mum not because of they wanted to. It is their duty for maintaining the family properties and caring the weak and frail parents. They have to care their parents from their hearts rather than profit driven, less caring and unorganized commercial age care facilities.
Their mums are losing independence because of ageing, sickness, cognitive impairment and losing eye sight and hearing. Leaving old and frail mum alone is nothing different from abandoning without concern about the potential consequence.
On it is so right for reading the news off spring are caring mum instead of terrible news of murdering their own mum because of financial interest or hatred. Some sacrifice their career and income for living with their old mums and dads. They should be praised and respected for their sacrifice.
Japan has the longevity of many elderly. One reason is grateful offspring caring their parents. Unlike west, who have abandoned their parents without any concern about their ability for living alone. When the parents are sick terribly, many from western nations or Japan concern more about their inheritance instead of caring and nursing.
Those who are caring old mums and dads in their twilight years are heroes of the heroes.