TOKYO - A Tokyo court sentenced a former senior government official to six years in prison on Monday for fatally stabbing his socially reclusive son with a kitchen knife.
Kumazawa, who immediately called police and admitted to the killing, pleaded guilty to the crime during the trial. His son had a developmental disorder and was routinely violent toward his mother. He was removed from his parents and lived alone in an apartment until he returned home a week before the killing. The court said in its ruling that the son resumed his violence as soon as he returned home and threatened to kill his father.
They also said that Kumazawa feared his son might harm others as in a case days earlier, when a man described a a social recluse - known in Japan as"hikikomori" - stabbed a number of schoolchildren at a bus stop outside Tokyo, killing two people and wounding 17 others, mostly schoolgirls, before killing himself.