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Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, said Sunday that a 63-year-old man and his 57-year-old wife died in an apparent murder-suicide on Saturday.
According to police, they received a call from the man at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The man said he had shot himself in the stomach, Fuji TV reported.
Police rushed to the apartment in Nakahara Ward and found Tokutaro Takahashi and his wife Kimiko in the living room dead from shotgun wounds. The shotgun lay nearby.
The couple lived with their 29-year-old son who was out at the time.
Police said Takahashi had a license to own a shotgun.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
At least they left the son alone. RIP
smithinjapan
If you feel the need to do yourself in, which I hope you don't, PLEASE leave others out of it!
Monozuki
He apparently called the police on the phone in his final death-agonies. RIP.
clamenza
At least "He" left the son alone. It was a murder-suicide
gokai_wo_maneku
That brings the gun deaths this year in Japan up to 2.
lolozo79
It's bizarre how he offs his wife, himself, then calls the police. 'moshi moshi, I've just killed my wife and I'm dying. Please come.'' I wonder if there's something more to this tragic story.
Whatsnext
Unfortunately that doesn't effect the family suicide rate.
Disillusioned
Ew! Messy! I don't think the fact he used a gun is so important. It's just another murder suicide in Japan.
Wc626
How did he get a shotgun? I thought firearms are taboo in Japan.
Wc626
Cool. I didn't know that. I just thought the NPA carried them on-duty and on-duty only.