Younger twin stabs older sister after argument

Monday 19th October, 08:30 AM JST

CHIBA —

Police on Sunday arrested a 15-year-old girl for stabbing her older twin sister at their apartment in Chiba. According to police, the girls’ father called for help late Sunday morning. An emergency crew arrived to find one sibling stabbed in the chest. She was rushed to the hospital and is in a stable condition.

Police arrested her younger twin sister for attempted murder after she admitted to stabbing her older sibling. Later the same day, the younger sister was released and a child consultation center was requested to look into the matter.

According to police, the girls’ parents were out of the house at the time, and the father called the police after getting a call from the daughter who was stabbed. The younger twin has a slight mental disability, police said.

Wire reports

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dammit at 01:50 PM JST - 19th October

Twins are often like this. Even identical ones are often at each others throats to the point that the parents are scared one or both will do something irreparable like this. (Perhaps that should be especially identical ones?)

To us foreigners it makes no real difference whether the one stabbed was born first or second. So why kick up a stink about it? I don't know the accuracy of Yelnats comment that they both have the same given name, no offence meant to Yelnats himself but the papers are quite capable of making mistakes. As we all know. Damn stupid thing to do though, I wonder if such idiocy as naming more than one kid identically is legal here?

Anyway, I want to know exactly what mental disabilities the younger girl has. That is definitely relevant to the story. I'd also like to know if she was entirely unprovoked, as I know well what human beings can do to each other (even without weapons.)
Disillusioned at 02:10 PM JST - 19th October
The younger twin has a slight mental disability, police said.

Did they come to this conclusion before or after she stabbed her 'older' sister?
- Take a chill pill people. The younger/older thing is only to differentiate.
kokorocloud at 02:37 PM JST - 19th October

I wonder what they were fighting about... I hope the one sister pulls through and the other gets some sort of help.
my2sense at 03:39 PM JST - 19th October

I am a twin with a 5 inch slash down my chest with 70s style razor blade...and they claim her slipped off the sink while screwing around in medicine cabinet (us both)... We were 3 yrs old and he was younger by 5 mins....my old man duct tape me together with towel and pressure and went to the hospital... Ironic and bizzare...
my2sense at 03:39 PM JST - 19th October

my point... it happens.
isthistheend at 03:49 PM JST - 19th October

Its not only twins. Anyone with more than one sibling has got to be able to identify with this. Even though the sane person would never carry out such an act, its been thought about or spoken "I could xxxxx him/her.". Welcome to Cain and Able revisited 2009.
movieguy at 04:04 PM JST - 19th October

@rao007... I won't get into the childish name calling. All I will say is that the background information you claim gives more information is TOTALLY irrelevant to the story and doesn't tell anyone anything as it appears in JT. They're TWINS. What situation are you referring to that gives it more background information??? JT doesn't give us any situation to give anyone a perspective. As it's written the younger/older part of the story is irrelevant.

Now that Yelnats has pointed out (from what he/she has read elsewhere) that one twin apparently has the same given name I can get a better understanding, but as JT has chosen to publish this story it's still irrelevant whether a TWIN is younger or older. If they weren't twins I would understand using younger vs. older.

The only other reason I could think of (aside from Yelnats post) for choosing to go with younger/older is because they didn't want to use suspect and victim for some reason. That's the way the article should have been written.
Sarge at 10:16 PM JST - 19th October

"The younger twin has a slight mental disability"

Gosh, I'd hate to see what she'd do if she had a severe mental disability...
knews at 11:12 PM JST - 19th October

Yeah, the younger sister was suicidal and stabbed her twin sister by mistake!
mikihouse at 11:20 PM JST - 19th October

for Americans, maybe the term Twins make sense but in Asian culture, the term elder or yuonger does matter even in twins. Hierachy is quite important in Japanese culture and maybe the younger sibling got fed up because she thinks she is being disadvantage just because of few minutes difference.
knews at 12:03 AM JST - 20th October

I heard that in Japan the twin who is born first is actually considered younger than the one born second. Something to do with the elder one letter the younger one go first... Has anyone else heard this?
Agehaya at 12:32 AM JST - 20th October

I've heard that as well (in the past), but I think nowadays the twin born first is considered older.

And as for identical twins "often being like this" as dammit purported...I strongly disagree. While I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility, I don't think sibling rivalry is greater among twins (identical or not) than in regular brother/sister or sister/sister relationships. While it's perhaps anecdotal evidence, I might bicker with my twin, but she's my very best friend. It's my older brother we'd both like to see put down a few pegs. In fact, I've known many sets of twins over the years, some identical, some fraternal, and I can't think of a single set that was ever at each others throats.
KitsuneYoukai at 02:23 AM JST - 20th October

Seems like everyone committing crimes has a mental disbility these days.
my2sense at 04:08 PM JST - 22nd October

they are both the same age...
airrunwesker at 10:56 AM JST - 23rd October

When I get upset, I put on some Rush, and remind myself how much more successful I am compared to my other siblings! I am also quite talented at disarming a person with a knife