Police in Osaka on Monday arrested a 29-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of killing her boyfriend, who was in his 30s, by scalding him with a Cup Ramen full of boiling water and allegedly drowning him in the bathtub.
According to police, the incident occurred on Sunday afternoon, Kyodo News reported. Police said the suspect, Momoka Taniuchi, has partially admitted to the charge. She was quoted as saying that she poured the Cup Ramen on the man after they had an argument and he slapped her face.
She told police her boyfriend went to the bathroom to clean up and when he didn’t come back after 15 minutes, she went to look for him and found him unconscious the bathtub.
Taniguchi called 119. Police said the victim also had several knife wounds to the lower part of his body. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police said Monday the results of an autopsy showed that the man had drowned.
© Japan Today
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Lindsay
Scalded, stabbed and drowned. I think she really wanted him dead.
Michael Machida
He had stab wounds to the lower parts of his body.
Ouch. What were they fighting about?
Speed
Now that's a triple whammy.
桜川雪
How long to keep the noodles in? Mushy noodles vs firm noodles.
uaintseeme
Sooo, she just left out the part where she stabbed him?
William Bjornson
Death by Cup Ramen... a book title at the very least. I suppose the stabbings were just garnish...
TokyoLiving
shogun36
Great writing……so, the hot ramen killed him?
and not these other two factors?
Clay
Given frequency, seems either societal breaking point or we just never heard about such crazy stuff before?
Seemed like such Crazy was only couple times year prior to Covid, now it's EVERY day. Inflation, pandemic, geopolitical madness, economic stagnation, debt, aging, depopulation, long list and I'm missing lots of stuff!
People, please take DEEP breath, forgive and forget!
garypen
Either she's a cold-blooded murdering psychopath killing her innocent husband who didn't deserve such a fate, or she's a heroic victim who killed the psychopathic husband who has been abusing her for years who deserves exactly what he got.
A little more info would help to figure out whether she deserves our contempt or our sympathy.
Jonathan Prin
I believe the knife did do the job she wanted...lack of of any journalist skill not to mention in the title to say the least.
Still, investigation needed and innocent until guilty please since he could have commited suicide. Surprisingly no confession.
Is it me or I noticed that police have much higher and fast confession expectations against men compare to women ?
Newgirlintown
And the award for most Japanese story of the week goes to…
commanteer
Bizarrely written story, but I have to admit the clickbait worked. It turns out ramen can indeed kill - if combined with multiple stab wounds and drowning.
Mocheake
Those knife wounds may have played a huge part in his death, headline writer. Just a thought.
Paustovsky
They had an argument, she threw ramen at him then he committed suicide in the bath. The article is so badly written you could change any of those around though.
Maybe the ramen stabbed him.
tamanegi
Ain't love grand?!
englisc aspyrgend
Obviously she is innocent, it was all an accident! She “accidentally” scalded him with the ramen while they were arguing then he “accidentally” slipped and stabbed him self, several times then feeling faint he fell on the bath and “accidentally” turned on the tap and drowned.
It’s all self explanatory when you look at it ;)
WA4TKG
Do you suppose the knife wounds had anything to do with it?
oyatoi
Syntactic structure fail; same as back in ‘41 when, in a triumph of Schrödinger’s cat inexactness, the J Govt’s press attaché subsuming past and present into one, left the assembled foreign press none the wiser about the chronology of the attack on Pearl.
kaimycahl
Japanese have some of the most unimaginable ways to kill. First degree murder weapon used a cup of ramen!!
falseflagsteve
I don’t understand how people can make jokes when a man has died in a terrible manner. I find it immature and regressive
John
It sounds like she didn’t intend to kill him, she wanted to torture him.
Yuuju
A female psychopath. Very frightening indeed. I wonder how long theguy was in relationship with her.