Kumamoto man arrested after fatally stabbing his daughter’s 38-year-old boyfriend

Thursday 10th September, 08:39 AM JST

KUMAMOTO —

A 42-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder on Tuesday night, after he allegedly stabbed a 38-year-old man who was seeing his 16-year-old daughter, police said Wednesday.

Yusai Ueno called police at about 11.30 p.m. Tuesday and told them he had stabbed a man in his home. Police rushed to the house in the town of Ueki and found Masashi Suzashi, an unemployed resident of the town of Nagasu, bleeding from several wounds to his stomach. He was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead about three hours later. Ueno was arrested at the home for attempted murder, but police said they will pursue a charge of murder and file papers with prosecutors on Thursday.

Ueno told police he was opposed to his daughter seeing the man, who she became acquainted with through a cell phone website. He said that when he learned his daughter had met Suzashi again on Tuesday, he got angry and called him to his home, where they had an argument before Ueno grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the man.

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Ukhti at 03:03 AM JST - 12th September

If I'm not mistaken, isn't the age of legal sexual consent for a girl in Japan, like, 13 or something? I'm just putting that out there to point out that even though many of us have a hard time with a man of that age dating a girl that young (hell, even I disagree with it), his decision to have sex with a girl of that young an age is considered legal, at least in Japan. So while the father's actions are criminal, the daughter's boyfriend's were not.
hakujinsensei at 12:14 PM JST - 12th September

Most of the people here need to take a chill pill. Who cares if the guy is 22 years her senior. My current girlfriend is 29 years my junior. Should her dad beat me up? She enjoys experiencing more than she would with someone her own age. There is a good chance that this girl did too. And what is wrong with all the haranguing deai sites. Meeting someone in a bar in Roppongi or Namba is somehow better? There are slags anywhere you meet people. I hear about how dysfunctional people are for not meeting people 'the old fashioned way', but when you go to an all girls school or you work 60 hours a week, not because the culture is warped but because you are subject to an extremely high cost of living, meeting people might be hard unless you are trolling on the train. Dad was out of hand, pure n simple. Little girls need protection but there is a difference between protection and abusive control. The time for input was far before she was 16, if he cant trust her now, nothing he will do from here on out is going to make a difference. I have a 16 year old daughter and if she wanted to date a 38 year old guy I would say nothing about it as long as he had her home by 5:00 pm and he had no visible tatoos ; )
saeiry at 03:22 PM JST - 12th September

Such an age gap means there's something wrong in their personalities. The girl is looking for a father-like figure, the guy is looking for a weak girl to dominate... Not a crime of course, but there's definitely some psychological problem. Normal people can deal with people their age. If you can't you go for a father-daughter like relationship. Not sure that's gonna work though...
AK619 at 03:58 PM JST - 12th September

The 38 year old man that came over to the girls fathers house, and got into an argument with him was real foolish. Most fathers are natrually going to protect there daughter from dating an adult. This man dosen't want his daughter ending up in some porno industry shaming his family name. Many older guys in Japan try to recruit younger girls into that life style. The father was only protecting his daughter from being taken advantage of by some potential child molesting. Even if the 38 year old wasn't a pervert, you never go to the fathers home when he dispproves of you dating his under age daughter, that was a grave mistake. I personally would never meet a father of an under aged girl, your just asking to get stabbed, shot, or punched. Dating an under age girl has to be kept discreet. I'm not saying its OK either, but sometimes real love does happen, absent pervert intentions.
techall at 04:06 PM JST - 12th September

An UNEMPLOYED 38 year old man at that .....this father should get a medal!
norinrad21 at 07:03 PM JST - 12th September

May the girl go on to live a worth while life and appreciate what her dad has done for her.
mansen at 09:55 AM JST - 13th September

There is nothin wrong dating OLDER man/women...

But, as long as my daugther is living under my house, eating my food or using my money(like paying for cell phone bill). She needs to follow rules set out by the family. That includes "NO dating 18 & older".

If she has a problem with that. I would take away her cell phone previledges.... man...I hope it s that simple...
BurakuminDes at 12:12 PM JST - 13th September

May the girl go on to live a worth while life and appreciate what her dad has done for her.

Yeah, sure she appreciates the fact daddy has just murdered an innocent man who she was dating in cold blood, will spend the next 20 years in the slammer, and won't be there to support her through college and everything else. Give this guy Father of The Year!
azzassa at 11:49 PM JST - 13th September

As long as he killed a man, no one will get too worried about it. If it were an older woman and younger man, it would be fine.

Young girls love to mess around with older guys. It's an old story. The only ones who have trouble with it are the families of the girls. They feel justified in ruining the guys life. (or in this case ending it)
mnemosyne23 at 02:15 AM JST - 15th September

Like mansen said, there's nothing wrong with dating an older man or woman, but in this case the girl was only 16 and still living with her family. I would invite anyone out there who has or has ever had teenage children to imagine what YOUR reaction would be if you found out your sixteen year old daughter was going out with a man twenty-two years her senior. I can almost guarantee you would be furious with her, and equally if not more furious with the man in question. The differences in life experience for a sixteen-year-old and a thirty-eight-year-old are astronomical. That same age gap between, say, a thirty-year-old and a fifty-two-year-old is still quite striking but nowhere near as shocking as a grown man dating a teenager who hasn't even reached the age of maturity yet. Nine times out of ten, a relationship like that is borne for the thrill-factor, not the odds of finding a soulmate.
Noliving at 05:14 AM JST - 15th September

Am I the only noticing that they have a tendency to die either immediately on the scene or they die 3-4 hours later in the hospital, they don't die within one hour or 10 hours or 5 hours its always within the 3-4 hour timelimit. Whats up with that?
Bologna at 04:25 PM JST - 15th September

I cannot agree with any murder. I am likely to be there next week.
Blue_Tiger at 07:46 PM JST - 16th September

Can't agree with the murder, but I can understand this Dad's anger. Its interesting that some postors here are defending the 38-year-old beau and saying that the 22-year difference isn't that big a deal. Did we miss something? The girl in question (yes, GIRL) is a minor - 16 years old. Now, were she 20 or 21, then, yes, by all means, let them go.....but 16? A High School Sophomore or Junior? Defenders of this relationship, are we missing something?
Memorex at 01:01 AM JST - 17th September

Murder is wrong! Why was he murdered? He was killed by someone else in an obvious rage. We don't know anything about the victim. There's so little information given about the circumstances that it's impossible for any of us to really say anything remotely sensible.
Memorex at 01:16 AM JST - 17th September

I still say so what if a 38 yr old guy was dating a 16 yr old girl? Whats the big crime? What awful things were going to happen to that 16 yr old girl? As if teenagers can't be little psychos to each other or even more so that the society that they live can't drive them nuts. She couldn't do much worse dating a guy her own age when it comes to taking a risk with what might happen to her in that relationship. Teenagers have proven to be just as capable as any adult of committing heinous crimes. So once again I say so what? Whys everyone treating teenagers like precious little things. You all think they are walking around with their hands over their eyes and ears and ignoring everything that is going on around them? Whats so dangerous about 38 yr old men? My beef is with murder. Murder is a crime too don't forget and the 38 yr old hadn't committed any crime if I am not mistaken. The only illegal thing that happened in this whole mess is that a 42 yr old guy stabbed a 38 yr old guy and killed him.