TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police revealed on Sunday {that a} 45-year-old man in custody over the alleged homicide of his boss in Ota Ward was dissatisfied along with his bonus final yr, experiences Jiji Press (Jan. 12).
According to police, Masahiro Yamanaka, the gross sales supervisor of a sound tools firm, mentioned, “My bonus was reduced without any explanation.”
Police allege that Yamanaka fatally stabbed the managing director of the corporate, 44-year-old Akihiro Kawashima, on the sufferer’s house in Omorikita round January 7.
According to police, Kawashima was discovered collapsed and bleeding the subsequent day. He was later confirmed useless.
“I did stab him, but I did not intend to kill him,” Yamanaka mentioned of the homicide allegations.
During voluntary questioning earlier than his arrest on January 9, Yamanaka defined, “My bonus, which had previously been 1.5 months’ salary, was reduced to one month’s salary. I wasn’t given any explanation.”
An announcement of the bonus paid in December of final yr, equal to roughly one month’s wage, was discovered on the suspect’s residence.
“Even if it means making them suffer”
Kawashima and Yamanaka had been my highschool classmates. The suspect had labored in varied jobs within the promoting and attire industries, however was invited to hitch the corporate about 4 years in the past by Kawashima as part of an effort to enhance the corporate. He mentioned, “The conditions were better than my previous job.”
However, the suspect started to expertise dissatisfaction whereas on the firm, police mentioned.
“If they can’t understand what I’m saying, I’ve come to believe that I need to make them change their way of thinking, even if it means making them suffer,” Yamanaka mentioned at one level through the investigation, in line with police.
It is believed that Yamanaka waited for Kawashima on the grounds of the house constructing on the evening of January 7. Upon the sufferer’s arrival, the suspect went to the house and attacked him.
About half-hour after leaving the house, Yamanaka met up with a buddy at a bar in Ota. It has been confirmed that they went to 3 bars collectively till the early hours the subsequent morning.
Police mentioned that Kawashima’s physique had stab wounds in additional than 10 locations, together with the neck and abdomen.