Two Taiwanese women stabbed to death in Tokyo apartment
TOKYO —
Two Taiwanese women were found with stab wounds to their necks in their 2nd-floor apartment in Tokyo’s Taito Ward on Thursday morning, police said. The two women, aged 21 and 23, were taken to hospital where they were confirmed dead.
According to Fuji TV, the two women were Japanese-language students at the nearby Intercultural Institute of Japan. The apartment building was rented by their Japanese language school as a dorm for the students.
One of the women was supposed to leave for the school with two male Taiwanese friends at 9:30 a.m., but when she didn’t show up, the two alerted school authorities, Fuji reported. A teacher used a duplicate key to get into the apartment where he found the two women, and alerted police.
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Badge213
According to other media reports, the dormitory required a security access card to enter the building, the father of one of the victims believes it might be someone they (the students) knew.
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keika1628
door locked on the inside or self locking latch ? .
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shirokuma2011
Right across the street from me (both the school and the dorm)... media people camped out till all hours, despite which this story got all of a couple of minutes on yesterday's evening news shows.
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Cricky
Two stabbed to death, in a supposed secure dorm...they were too young for this end. Hope the cops catch the perpetrator but with a 12% crime solving rate for last year I doubt it.
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MaboDofuIsSpicy
Where did those stats come from Cricky?
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Virtuoso
Cricky seems to be fudging. The prosecution rate for serious crimes (crimes against person) is considerably higher than 12%, although it's gone down in recent years. If I get some time later I'll scroll through the 2011 Police White Paper and see what I can come up with.
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YuriOtani
Nobody heard a thing, how surprising...
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Patrick Hattman
This is a terrible shame. I hope those responsible are caught soon.
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CrazyJoe
I suspect this crime was commited by a foreign male student that the victims knew.
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japan_cynic
Why do you think the criminal is foreign, Crazyjoe? I'm sure the victims knew more Japanese people, what with 98% of the people here being Japanese and all...
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Cletus
CrazyJoe
Of course you do, because the entire Japanese population is so peaceful and never ever commit murders now do any of them.
Yes it could be as you claim a foreigner, but it could as easily be a Japanese person. Only time will tell
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Elbuda Mexicano
Horrible news!! My hunch is also a male foreign student living right there in that same building too!! Maybe better to have one building for ladies?? Another for young men?? Anyway RIP two young beautiful Taiwanese ladies. I can't even imagine the pain their parents must be going through at this very moment!!
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cactusJack
I would assume the assailant is male, possibly multiple assailants, to overpower 2 young women fighting for their lives. Horrible crime.
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CrazyJoe
To me a Japanese or Taiwanese are both foreign. I heard the police are looking for a foreign male who went missing after the crime.
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genjuro
What a tragedy. I hope there are security cameras in and around the area that could help the cops nab the murderer.
Stab necks to the neck.... doesn't sound like some random burglary. Wouldn't be surprised if the murderer(s) knew the victims.
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genjuro
Oops, meant stab wounds to the neck.
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Braindead
Their families must be crushed. What a way to begin a new year.
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bicultural
The police have been unable to contact one male student at the school after the crime. Prime suspect in my book.
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shirokuma2011
The school has been in business almost 35 years, has a good reputation, and most of the students I see (daily, since they gather outside our apartment after classes) seem to be just regular kids from all over the world. Hardly a front for the "ejaculation business", as someone so indelicately put it. If one of the other students was responsible, obviously he's anything but a "regular kid", but who knows these days?
Like most other Japanese language schools in the city, this one also struggled considerably after 3.11, but they seem to have been on the rebound lately, though a lot of the dorm rooms across the street still appear unoccupied...
I hope the school is able to recover from this tragedy and go on with its work, though I imagine the potential for lawsuits claiming neglect of duty to guard the welfare of the students could be as damaging as the crime itself.
What a sad day for the students' families...
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HonestDictator
Yes the missing student would become the prime suspect. Now will they find him sooner than later?
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Reckless
Very sad. The last thing I would ever do to 2 young ladies is stab them in the neck. Wonder what motivated the perpetrator?
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Darren Brannan
Over 10 stab wounds in the neck. The perp will have been spirited out of the country no doubt.
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peanut666
They probably stabbed each other in the neck.
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Badge213
Police suspect that the attacker was a male classmate of the students. Since the incident, he is the only classmate they have not been able to contact. A search of his apartment (nearby the dormitory where the girls were killed) police discovered the keys to the girls apartments and bloodstained material in his apartment.
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Elbuda Mexicano
The missing male foreign student is also Taiwanese I pray that the killer was not Japanese!!
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Badge213
From an international relations standpoint that would not be great. But all signs at the moment point to the fellow countryman classmate as being the killer.
Autopsy report shows that the victims were stabbed multiple times, this generally indicates that the killer had a very bad grudge against the victims for one reason or another.
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southsakai
Mexican friend does it really matter the Nationality of the killer? A Killer is a plain killer no matter what Nationality. During my years here, i have read up on news quite frequently on local homicide cases with the bulk of the murders committed by local Japanese nationals. Though in this specific case it seems pretty clear the perpetrator of this heinous crime is pointing to a foreign student as the prime suspect.
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Badge213
Japan Today really needs to stay on top of this news! Very strange that two foreigners have been killed, a foreigner is named the suspect, and the story is buried here on Japan Today...
Tokyo Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 30year old Taiwanese man in connection with the murders. The 30year old man went to the same language school as the two victims, he lived 10minutes away, has a past criminal record in Taiwan, and has been missing since the incident. Police investigation into his apartment found the girl's room keys, and blood soaked materials. They believe he is traveling in the Kansai Region. Tokyo Police are working with Taiwanese officials to get his criminal record, but looks like 10 years ago he was arrested for somesort of sexual related crime.
His father believes his son is innocent and says that school begins on the 12th and that his son is just out on vacation. If he son does not show up by the 12th, then there's nothing more to be said. He urges his son to turn himself to the police.
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