CHIBA (TR) – On October 28, Chiba Prefectural Police arrested 32-year-old Mami Asaka on suspicion of homicide. Police allege that Asaka stabbed her boyfriend, 21-year-old Chantal Badal, to dying with a kitchen knife at a love resort in Funabashi City between 4:35 a.m. and eight:15 a.m. on October 5.
The love resort is situated inside a five-minute stroll from JR Funabashi Station. At round 8:05 a.m., Asaka known as emergency providers. “A man is unconscious and not breathing. He is bleeding after stabbing himself in the chest with a knife,” she mentioned.
Emergency personnel arriving on the resort room discovered Badal mendacity face down in a pool of blood close to the door, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
On the day of the incident, police first accused Asaka of theft. She allegedly stole two knives from a retailer in Chiba City two days earlier than. The knives are believed to have been used within the incident.
Asaka and Badal met after they colleagues at a manufacturing unit. Tabloids are actually reporting on the problem, with Shueisha Online offering perception into Badal’s final hours.
“I wanted to die with my boyfriend”
“When police officers arrived at the scene and questioned Asaka about the two knives found in the room, she confessed to shoplifting,” an investigator informed the location. “She then mentioned, ‘I wanted to die with my boyfriend, and since I was going to die anyway, I might as well steal.’”
Based on the condition of the scene and the body, police determined that Asaka was likely involved in a murder, which led to her arrest at the Funabashi Police Station on that charge on October 28.
A related investigator revealed, “The moment we showed her the arrest warrant for murder, she immediately said, ‘It’s a mistake.’ She has remained silent ever since.”
Asaka was despatched to the native prosecutor’s workplace on the morning of October 29, however she stubbornly refused to depart the detention middle that day. “It took multiple police officers a long time to persuade her to leave,” an investigative sources mentioned.
“Japanese people are kind”
Badal lived together with his brother and different relations in an house a couple of 15-minute stroll from JR Tsudanuma Station. On October 29, Shueisha Online spoke with Badal’s brother.
“My younger brother really loved Japan,” the brother mentioned. “He especially loved anime. He even asked ChatGPT, ‘How can I get involved in Japanese anime?’ I think he loved Japanese anime and wanted to make it his career.”
He went on, “Japanese people are kind, and many of them follow the rules. He also said Japan is a great country. I heard he wanted to come to his favorite country and fulfill his dreams. He said he wanted to work hard in Japan and buy a house for his parents in Nepal.”
Badal began finding out Japanese earlier than coming to Japan in 2024. He then started attending a two-year vocational faculty in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
“He was very enthusiastic, using his reference books so much that they were falling apart,” the brother mentioned. “After graduation, he wanted to study business,” the brother mentioned. “So he is considering going on to a business vocational school in Chiba City and had already submitted his application.”
“She was crying a lot”
Badal’s brother has by no means met Asaka.
“I heard that my brother met Asaka at a factory in Narashino City where he had been working part-time since November of last year,” the brother mentioned. “In April of this year, he told me that he had gotten a girlfriend who was older than him. He said, ‘She’s 10 years older than me, but looks young.’ He also said she was short and petite.
I told him, ‘If you like her, that’s fine.’ It’s up to him to make the decision, regardless of nationality. Over the past month, he’d often meet with [Asaka] every Saturday night through Sunday evening. I hadn’t heard anything about any trouble up until then. But on the night of October 2, while I was drinking with him at home, he told me that he’d talked about breaking up with her. He said that when he brought up the topic over the phone, she was crying a lot.”
By this time, Badal had give up his job on the manufacturing unit and was working part-time within the kitchen of an izakaya.
“On October 4, the day before the incident, I was on a shift and my brother was at work too. I finished work at 10:30 p.m. and said to him, ‘You’re going home today, right? You’ve broken up [with her], haven’t you?’ He said, ‘I want to see her one last time today and talk.’ My brother was a sincere person, so maybe he wanted to have a proper discussion and get it over with.”
“A lot of blood”
On the day of the incident, Badal’s brother began work at his part-time job at one other izakaya from 4 p.m.
“My brother and I shared location information [with each other], and when I checked his phone’s GPS, he was in Higashi-Funabashi, not moving. [I thought] something must have happened. So as I was working I wondered if they’d had a fight or something.”
The GPS confirmed Badal’s location to be the identical after 6:00 p.m. Thinking this was unusual, the brother known as police.
“It took three different people before they finally told me, ‘Your brother was confirmed dead at 8:15 this morning.’ I couldn’t believe it. After that, I went to the police. They showed me a photo of my brother’s face and asked, ‘Are you sure this is him?’ It was right. So I asked them if they could at least let me see his face, and they said, “We’ll let you see his face, but there’s a lot of blood. I said, “Okay, just let me see his face, please.” I checked out him. His cheeks have been very chilly.”
“I no longer know who to trust”
Badal’s mother and father are in Japan. His brother mentioned that they don’t seem to be planning to return to Japan.
“When I called, my mother cried the whole time. My father was speechless,” the brother mentioned.
Badal’s brother, too, is struggling.
“Even if I try to work, I just can’t find the motivation,” he mentioned. “I can’t go to work right now. I really want to go, but even if I did, we would work in the same place, and when I go there, I end up remembering those tragic events that happened to my brother while I’m at work.”
The investigation is ongoing.
“We don’t know what information we’ll hear in the future,” Badal’s brother mentioned. “All we can do is wait. I don’t know what to do next…I love Japan. But this incident has scared me. My brother died in this way, and the police initially suspected suicide. I no longer know who to trust.”
He went on, “After the autopsy, my brother returned home in silence, his body covered in wounds. About 10 in all. There were cuts on his stomach, a stab wound on his thigh, and a wound on his left hand that looked like it had been made by a knife. I felt like he was trying to protect himself.”
Police informed Badal’s brothe that eight massive cans of the alcohol chuhai have been discovered within the love resort room upon the arrival of emergency providers.
“My brother has a low tolerance for alcohol and would never drink that much himself,” Badal’s brother mentioned. “I just want to know the truth about what happened between the two of them. I can only hope that the investigation progresses.”