Police in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 39-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of killing his 81-year-old father at their home.
According to police, Shinji Azumada has admitted to punching his father Tsuneo in the face and kicking his arms and legs after he fell down between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Kyodo News reported.
Azumada called 119 at 7:05 p.m. and said that his father had lost consciousness while in the toilet. His father was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The hospital contacted police.
Police said Azumada told them he and his father had been arguing and that he had lost his temper and assaulted him. Police quoted him as saying he and his father had been quarreling a lot recently.
© Japan Today
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nosuke
Another broken record on a day in day out basis. Seems like there is a issue that no one can prevent.
Dango bong
wonder why nobody wants to hire him....
John
Japanese elderly complains about everything and they want everything to be exactly how they think. Killing is extreme, but it wouldn’t be easy to live with an elderly.
Martimurano
Serious jail-time coming up for this pathetic coward - must have significant sadistic tendencies to inflict such vicious harm on another human-being, especially as the victim was his frail father......
If this turns out to be murder (rather than manslaughter), a lifetime tariff has to be applied.
garypen
He should've gotten his own place, then. Oh yeah, that requires a job and being able to pay rent, which he didn't have and wasn't able to do.
That may have very well been what that "Japanese elderly" was complaining about, which wouldn't have been an unreasonable complaint at all.