Wednesday February 15, 2012

61-year-old man found dead in Chiba hospital car park

CHIBA —

A 61-year-old man was found Tuesday morning stabbed to death inside his car at a hospital’s car park in Togane City, Chiba Prefecture.

Kiyoshi Miyazaki, 61, was discovered inside his car by a passerby at around 6 a.m, he had been stabbed in the chest and arms. According to police investigations, the window of the car was broken from outside but belongings including 80,000 yen cash and a mobile phone were left inside the car. Police said the victim seemed to have been killed inside the car.

Miyazaki runs a restaurant in the city and lives together with his wife, 51 and daughter, 14. He was with his friends until 8 p.m. on Tuesday, police said.

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    cleo

    Dunno whether he was an old fogie or not (you can be 30 and a fogie), but at 61 he wasn't an OAP. He wouldn't have been eligible for a pension for another few years.

    Don't really know what to make of this. It doesn't sound like he was attacked for his money.....

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    sensei258

    Sounds like somebody had a grudge. Breaking a window to get at the guy would seem to indicate it may not have been random. No money stolen, better check the wife. Maybe a jealous lover???

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    OgieDoggie

    Now class from this story we can conclude:

    a. Gun control in Japan is working because NO Guns means NO Crime. (Apparently people being stabbed by knife isn't much of a crime in Japan).

    b.apparently being a restaurant owner is VERY dangerous occupation in Japan because there have been two other stories in the last 5 days of a restaurant owners being stabbed to death.

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    serindipity

    It was his wife going for his pension!

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    bamboohat

    suicide. I saw this once on CSI.

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    helloklitty

    at 61 he wasn't an OAP. He wouldn't have been eligible for a pension for another few years.

    He was self-employed. Wouldn't he have been eligible for a pension after 40 enrollment periods? That is possible, but I don't claim to know the answer.

    I would assume his life insurance and his personal savings would be a much larger sum than the pension.

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    cleo

    You have to have 40 years of payments to be eligible for the full pension, but age is also a factor. Pension used to be paid from age 60, but it's gradually being raised; a person retiring this year will not receive a pension until they reach 64. So he wasn't an OAP.

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    serindipity

    Pension or life insurance! Either way, the first suspect would be his wife, then his kids, then his mates. It's also a little odd that he was found in a hospital carpark. Why was he there?

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    dennis0bauer

    chiba? another nut?

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