A woman in her 50s was arrested Monday on suspicion of killing her husband at their home in Tokyo’s Shinagawa district, police said.
According to police, they received a call from the woman at around 9 a.m. on Monday morning, telling them that her husband “was dead,” Fuji TV reported. When police arrived at the scene, they found the husband dead. Police said the woman admitted killing her husband, who was in his 60s, by hitting him with a cooking pot and beating him with her hands.
The wife, whose name has not been released, appears to be mentally unstable, police said.
Neighbors were quoted as saying that the couple had been frequently quarreling, though no one assumed "it would go that far.”
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garypen
"Woman arrested for killing husband with cooking pot"
You mean slowly, like over 20 years?
Kaerimashita
The way to a man's heart is thru his stomach, but this is no way to use the cooking pot.
gogogo
that's for sure.
Slickdrifter
Neighbors were quoted as saying that the couple had been frequently quarreling, though no one assumed "it would go that far.”
Yeah that is the problem sometimes in Japan. It goes sideways quick then read it here.
Mentally deranged.
Dango bong
ya think?
Dan Lewis
Hmm... you assault someone and you are arrested and charged. You go absolutely ape shart on someone and they call you unstable and give you leniency...
Sounds more like the system is mentally unstable!
Michael Jackson
Police said the wife appeared to be mentally unstable
Nothing like having the police set up your defense strategy for you I see a suspended sentence in her future
Kobe White Bar Owner
No one assumed...... Assumption the mother of all mess ups.
quercetum
Most people do not involve themselves in other people’s business and are averse to reporting their neighbors even if they hear what could be domestic violence. The neighbors might have been concerned but there’s not much they could have done.
Disillusioned
Death by nabe pot! That's a new one! You have to wonder though, what kind of a husband was he to make his wife crazy enough to kill him?
chisineko
Who would ever need a gun when cooking pots are so easily obtainable.
OssanAmerica
I's like to know what kind of pot was used. If aluminum this woman must be amazingly strong. Was it totally lethal, like cast iron? Or a Japanese do-nabe?
Toasted Heretic
I hope she gets the help she needs. None of us can know for sure what she may have had to put up with.
Toronto1992
@clamenza
well obviously everyone here feels bad for the victim, like what the hell
But what can you do? The women is unstable and she never has second thoughts or considering what she did
bosphorus
It is incredibly difficult to kill someone with a cooking pot, this woman must be very powerful.
clamenza
T1992- read the 1st 2 comments. It’s not all that obvious to me
thetoleratedone
Obviously she is mentally unstable. It is called evil. She is a woman though so most people just laugh about it. One person even felt sorry for and implied it was the husbands fault. If it were a man that was the murderer everyone would be calling him evil, some even asking for the death penalty. Being put on a pedestal by society does not give you the right to commit murder.