Police in Goka, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 56-year-old unemployed man after he threw a knife at his older brother during a heated argument, causing the victim to die later from his wound.
According to police reports, Junichi Tamura got into an argument with his 59-year-old brother at around 6 p.m. Saturday at the home where they live with their parents, TV Asahi reported. Police said Tamura allegedly threw a folding knife at his brother, inflicting him with a head injury.
Tamura’s mother called 119 at around 10 p.m., saying that her son was lying on the kitchen floor, unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. When paramedics arrived at the scene, the older brother was bleeding from the top of his head and in a state of cardiac arrest. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police said Tamura has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying, "I'm not sure if I threw the knife.”
© Japan Today
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nandakandamanda
Well, the mother waited four hours to call for an ambulance...
smithinjapan
nandakandamanda: "Well, the mother waited four hours to call for an ambulance..."
Maybe that's when she found him? I doubt she sat around watching the blood and then said, "Okay, four hours... that's enough!"
As for the brother who killed him... well... the "I don't know if I threw the knife" thing is going to work well.
WA4TKG
I would have said I was drunk (even though I don’t drink alcohol), that seems to work well in this country.
tigerjane
Another story of an unemployed older individual killing a family member, and I will say it once more these stories will continue because there have been so many of these self-entitled individuals that were raised after the war era.
Ah_so
A 56 year-old would have been born in 1968, and would have been only 32 in the year 2000, and in modern parlance, part of "generation X". He wasn't exactly part of the post-war baby boom generation.
smithinjapan
tigerjane: "Another story of an unemployed older individual killing a family member, and I will say it once more these stories will continue because there have been so many of these self-entitled individuals that were raised after the war era."
Dude... the guy was 56. That almost makes him post-Vietnam War. Not quite, but you get my drift. I think you came on here having already decided what happened without reading the article, and with extreme bias. Now, I agree that this kind of thing is increasing and will continue to, but not for the reasons you stated, since you were wrong about age group by quite a bit. This will continue because the rift between upper and lower class is increasing, with the middle class all but wiped out, and with poverty increasing and the economy collapsing. People can't afford to live, and so living as such with family indefinitely will cause immense strain on all involved, and I think we're going to see more and more people snapping. Doesn't matter if it's unemployed men in their 50s still living with mom and dad, a "sandwich" household (with mom taking care of her kids and possibly grandkids, as well as aging parents), elderly people taking care of infirmed spouses because they can't afford old-age homes, etc.
Droopy
That guy has good aim hahaha