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A 72-year-old woman and her unemployed 39-year-old son have been found dead at their home in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, in what police suspect was a murder-suicide.
According to police, the bodies of Sachiko Inoue and her son Shinya were found by Sachiko’s daughter at around 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday after her mother failed to show up for an appointment that day. She and a neighbour found the bodies and called police, Sankei Shimbun reported.
Police said that what Sachiko had been stabbed in the abdomen and beaten on the back of the head, while her son had died from loss of blood after slitting his left wrist.
Police quoted the daughter as saying her brother had been violent towars her and other family members in the past.
© Japan Today
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sensei258
39, unemployed, and living with his pension-dependent mother. What a loser. I'll bet money the violence was due to her pressuring him to get off his @ss and get a job.
Toasted Heretic
RIP to them both. Who knows what terrible pressure the family was under. Another desperate example of the need for more mental health services and intervention. We don't know the full story, as usual but tragic, tragic waste of life.
Yes, very important to demonise unemployed people from our comfy armchairs.
mmwkdw
Being unemployed in Japan, is akin to being on Death Row.
Toasted Heretic
Well, it certainly seems some people see the unemployed as guilty. Whether or not a tragedy like this has occured.
Why is this? Why are unemployed people seen as losers?
Nerakai
Please don't blame those unemployed. They already are going through a very hard time. What they need are not ridicule and contempt but encouragement.
bosphorus
I don't realize why so many adults in Japan are living with their parents, even if they have a job. It is quite easy to find a cheap small apartment, even in central Tokyo. Living with parents in the same apartment is hard and always causes a lot of conflicts.
cleo
Who wants to live in a cubbyhole? When my son moved to Tokyo to work, his company found him a cheap small apartment. He hated it, he said it was like living with all his stuff in a cupboard. Luckily he earns enough that he was able to find a bigger, nicer place better suited to his needs, but with rents the way they are in Tokyo many people are not so fortunate.