Third-Year Middle School Female Student Murdered Her Father

Oita Godo Newspaper (page 1, evening edition on July 19, 2008)

         On July 19, 3 o’clock in the morning, there was an emergency call about a daughter stabbing her father from a forty-six-year-old office man’s mansion in Kawaguchi city, Saitama prefecture. The policeman rushed to the place and discovered that the man was severely bleeding from his breast and finally died.

         On the night of July 19, the mother was waken up by the sound of things falling and man’s quarreling voice. As soon as she looked for the origin of sounds, she found her husband lying on the floor in the bedroom.  The husband asked her to call the ambulance.

         According to the investigation, the daughter, 3^rd year private middle school student, took a twenty-centimeter kitchen knife from the kitchen, get into the father’s bedroom, and strongly stabbed at his breast several times. Also, his forehead was cut.

         While the policeman found the father’s body, the girl was calmly waiting on the bed. And when she was interrogated, she said “I myself stabbed him.” Notwithstanding, the policeman is still more deeply investigating this case.

         There were four people in this family; father(46), mother(49), daughter(15), son(12). At July 18^th night, they just had dinner together at home. The wife said “my husband cooked curry.” A middle-age couple living in the same mansion said that the girl was really polite and the family looked very warm. They do not understand why this happened.

Comment:  So scary… This makes me think of an animation movie called “Hikurashi”. There are so many killing scenes which I am afraid that any child who watches it often will become a cruel person easily.  Therefore, I think Japan should censor or screen every too ruthless and too pornographic animation movie in order to avoid this kind of social problems.

PUNTHUCHAT Siripun

Thailand

APS3, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University