15-year-old boy held for fatally stabbing mother's common-law husband

Thursday 28th August, 10:03 AM JST

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YangYong at 12:31 PM JST - 28th August

Palmersun: Common Law husband / wife was brought onto the books about three years ago.
romulus3 at 12:36 PM JST - 28th August

borscht,

what do we know about them? nothing so everything is a maybe....
japanyesterday at 01:28 PM JST - 28th August

Good job, kid! Your mother is now 'free' to feel utter hell, guilt, contempt, horror, shock, and complete and unwavering worry about what's going to happen to you for your 'heroics', you stupid moron! Oh, and now she's completely alone.

i'm not saying she deserves it but maybe she should have taken the signs more serious. i'm alsmot sure she knew how her son felt about her sex friend but she just though bah he's just a whining kid who dont know anything about love.
fatloser at 01:55 PM JST - 28th August

Most posts miss the REAL STORY here. Yet another teen has opted to KILL as a solution to a "problem" Are there any couples that don't go through difficult periods? Are there any couples that don't argue? He wasn't "defending" his mother. He didn't like her boyfriend, so he killed him. Probably while he was sleeping.
Alphaape at 02:00 PM JST - 28th August

Many keep saying that the father was absent. Yes he is. But it does not mean it was by choice. He could have died. The kid feels that this guy is taking the place of his deceased father. In other words, we don't know. Until the full story comes out (and it probably will not, since if was due to some sensationalism like the father was a gaijin and the kid was half/half, thus causing the rage he felt) we will never know.
neverknow2 at 03:43 PM JST - 28th August

35 or 37?
ThonTaddeo at 09:21 PM JST - 28th August

Stabbing a sleeping person is just about the most low-down, cowardly way there is to hurt a person. Maybe Mr. Kamikawa was a bad stepfather, and maybe he wasn't (he's no longer around to argue for himself, now is he?), but he was as defenseless as a man can be when this boy coldly murdered him.
Freespeech at 09:31 PM JST - 28th August

What is a "common-law" husband ? Are there laws that are not common ?

Come on, journalists, stop this nonsense chit chat and call things by their name : here we had a "companion", or "boy friend" if you like baby talk, or else, but certainly not a husband.
uberloser at 09:42 PM JST - 28th August

neverknow2... 37 and 35. Read much?
serindipity at 10:18 PM JST - 28th August

Shouldn't it be defacto husband? Now, ex-defacto.
kjunluc2 at 10:46 PM JST - 28th August

****No matter what you call hime, common-law, lover, shack job, boy friend, he's still dead as a deep fried carrot. 15 year old Japanese seem to commit most of these type crimes. If it offends you or displeases you, cut it out of your life.

Not much detail here but the kids actions were extreme. The dead man can't defend himself.
DefConOne at 12:40 AM JST - 29th August

The high level of violent knife crime in Japan is scary. it seems to be getting worse all the time. Looks like in about 10 years it will be a lawless society, with police no go areas.
DefConOne at 01:42 AM JST - 29th August

This 15 year old should be locked up for life without parole, while doing hard labor.
roomtemperature at 01:43 AM JST - 29th August

Of course that's NOT per capita.
fatloser at 07:20 AM JST - 29th August

This young HEROIC boy who SAVED his mommy went to school 8 days this year. That's what the tv news said. The BAD man tried to get him to go to school. SO he SAVED his Mommy from this ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!! That man probably gave himself alot of stress trying to give some guidance to a worthless youth. Chances are the mother lured him into this deathtrap of a relationship with sob stories.