Police in Inagi, Tokyo, have arrested an unemployed 47-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she stabbed her 55-year-old sister.
According to police, they received a call at around 12:20 p.m. Monday from a girl reporting that her mother had been stabbed. Police rushed to the apartment and found the woman who lives there, on the floor near the entrance, bleeding from stab wounds to her stomach and chest, Fuji TV reported.
Inside, police found the woman's younger sister, Tsuneko Shiraoka, with a bloodied fruit knife. The victim's daughter, who called police, was unharmed.
The victim was taken to hospital and was in a stable condition on Tuesday, police said.
Police said Shiraoka, who lives in Komae, Tokyo, has admitted to stabbing her sister but has so far given no motive.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
And, yet another family murder (attempted). It's nearly every flipping day!
smithinjapan
Disillusioned: More than every day now.
m6bob
I say it is probably about 妹さん asking for money which お姉ちゃん cannot give due to family needs of her own. I hope she recovers and her daughter is not too traumatized.
Strangerland
If you're going to post in English, post in English. If you're going to post in Japanese, post in Japanese. If you must post Japanese in English, then at least put in a reading and a translation for the non-Japanese readers/speakers.
For those people:
妹さん: Imoto-san - younger sister. Note that さん (san) is rarely added to imoto, if ever (can't say I've ever seen it)
お姉ちゃん: Onee-chan - older sister.
Moderator: Please stop harassing other posters.
Chop Chop
The younger sister must be going crazy. It's mental health issue. The mental illness problem in Japan has increased dramatically. Government needs to take it seriously and give assistance and treatment for those who suffer mental illness before committing self harm and harming other peoples.