Police said Monday they have arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly stabbing to death his 30-year-old girlfriend at her Setagaya apartment.
According to police, the suspect, identified as Keisuke Fujikawa, called them just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday to report that he had stabbed Yuki Ishikawa following an argument at her Kitazawa home, Fuji TV reported. Police found Ishikawa bleeding from stab wounds. She was taken to hospital where she died a short time later. Doctors said she had been stabbed multiple times in the side of the abdomen.
Fujikawa was quoted by police as saying he stabbed Ishikawa following an argument over her cell phone bill.
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sensei258
My wife's phone bill is outrageous, but I still don't want to kill her.
Disillusioned
I doubt if this was just over a cell phone bill. No doubt this couple had been in trouble for a while and this guy was already half looned. The phone bill was just an excuse to prove his insanity!
Mirai Hayashi
Probably has more to do with who she may have been calling...
timeon
a wild guess, but something tells me that is was not the bill, but the guy who she was taking with that prompted this rage. two lives lost, one forever, one forever in jail
Virtuoso
timeon@you took the words right out of my mouth!
FizzBit
Alpha male?
Idart
An educated guess, the killer in this story did just what he told the police, following an argument over his wife's cell phone bill he killed her. It is a terrible thing when people snapped over the pressure of money and end up doing something that they will regret for the rest of their lives. What kind of prison sentence will this man receive?
Scrote
Was this guy paying the bill? If so he could simply cancel the contract. Or he could smash the phone. I suspect he was jealous that she had been calling someone else.
JeanValJean
If she was halving a fling, let her go! There are plenty of better ladies available. Killing someone over a phone bill is pure stupidity.
afanofjapan
Perhaps it wasnt another guy, but one of those fantasy boyfriend games you can play on your phones, complete with ingame purchases that all add onto your phonebill.
Would be pretty pissed if my wife came back with a 20,000+ bill from one of those scams. Not pissed enough to hurt her, but then again, i am mentally stable, unlike this guy it seems.
NeoJamal
So, a guy with a spouses really have two definite choices in life: prepayment plan or prison
In_japan
KILL-BILL
smithinjapan
So this bill probably cost... what... 10,000 yen or more? How much is life in prison going to cost? To suggest it was over the bill is a little foolhardy; there was obviously more at play. The couple were probably stretched to the limit and the bill could not be justified. All excuses, but at least it's more understandable why the guy might snap.
timtak
Is it clear that the row was over the amount of the cell phone bill or the phone numbers - possibly including that of a rival - that the girlfriend called from her mobile phone, which are often listed on the phone bill.
timtak
No, it was the amount of the bill. Fujikawa was asked to pay the phone bill (it is not clear to me whether it was hers or his) and became angry.
timtak
It appears that it was Fujikawa's phone bill, which till that point the deceased had been paying. Both parties were unemployed.
billyshears
irrational human rage is a terrible thing
mikihouse
If the girl is playing online games like GREE...that will cost from 10,000 to hundreds of thousands. This company as been on the news for even allowing minors to purchase weapons for their virtual games but parents ending up paying 200,000 yen
ChibaChick
After 11 years in Japan I find it perfectly believable that someone could brutally murder someone else over a 10k phone bill!
badsey3
Should have gotten an unlimited plan or went with calling cards.
Dennis Bauer
Well no more expensive bills ej
cramp
mebbe theres a story behind this phone bill...like numbers stemming from an admirer, or old flame, indicating some cheating etc, etc
that could be what got her killed
badsey3
Another reason to stay with your Galapagos phone it seems ==> no outrageous phone bills. And with the inflation cheaper is always better.
Elbuda Mexicano
I doubt it was ONLY about a cellphone bill! Like Mirai says, most likely about WHO she was calling, like another man?? etc..fit of rage and now this idiot fool has ended up killing this woman.
Fadamor
It was the texting charges.
Resurfaced
Wow what a nut. Then why did he get a phone under his name to her? That is just nuts too! He is now on his way to prison, no girlfriend, soon to have lots of boyfriends and no bills added.... he got himself a great deal.
602miko
caught in act>>>>
Nessie
The shisatsuhoudai plan.