opinion

Women’s murders by their husbands continue to occur in Japan.

On July 3 a 67-year-old man was arrested in Tokyo on a murder charge. He was suspected of having stabbed his wife at the neck with a kitchen knife after beating and kicking her recklessly in their house. His wife reportedly died after being driven to the hospital.

And some ten days later, a 66-year-old man was detained in Niigata Prefecture on suspicion of homicide of his wife.

He was accused of having beaten his wife at the face, chest and stomach several times. 

Such a case also occurred in late September. 

The criminal admitted the charge, saying he killed his wife as it was difficult to look after her.

Killings are also committed among relatives in Japanese society which is pervaded by the moral values seeking to serve their own selfish interests and satisfy their avarice.

A man killed his mother by pouring hot water on her for five hours, an eldest son chopped his father to death with an axe, a woman in her 40s murdered her mother and cut her body into pieces to put them in several sacks, a grandson slayed his grandmother, a woman burnt the corpse of her suckling and threw it away by the seashore and another woman threw away her new-born baby in a lavatory. Such unimaginably terrible crimes happen one after another.

These criminal acts are the inevitable product of Japanese society where the law of the jungle that “I can survive only when I kill you”, extreme misanthropy and decadent immorality and depravity prevail.