headlines read "Man handed 12-year term for murdering wife after she scolded him for not working"...
58 year-old man, who had some chronic disease and so couldnt work, stabbed his 46 year-old wife who ran a restaurant, because he had enough of being regularly scolded by her for not working.
interestingly, he got only 12 years behind bars... and more interestingly are the words of the judge...
"The defendant committed the crime in a fit of anger, but it cannot be denied that the defendant was at fault for her attitude toward him..."
that sounds ok, but when i checked the original japanese story (as i suspected that there might have been some error in translation), it is written as follows...
「一時の激情にかられた動機は短絡的だが、被害者の言動に落ち度がなかったとも言えない」
in english, the words in bold above should actually read "... it cannot be said that the victim had no fault in her attitude towards him..."
yeah... amazing hor? it seems that in the jap society, the wife cannot anyhow scold the husband...
aspiring wives to japanese, do take note ;p
read source here.
posted by winz at 11:20 AM
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