<p><strong>I hardly ever saw them. Some of the neighbors didn&#8217;t even know they lived there. I don&#8217;t think they were out much. The house where the tragedy took place used to be a large Japanese-style house, and it was renovated about 10 years ago.</strong></p>
<p>The tragedy occurred in Makinohara, Shizuoka, a quiet town with nothing but mountains and the sea.</p>
<p>Late at night on January 16, a 13-year-old girl in her first year of junior high school in this town stabbed her mother to death with a kitchen knife while she was sleeping. The girl told the police that she got into trouble over the use of her smartphone. What happened between mother and daughter?</p>
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<p>The mother, Y, grew up in the house where the incident took place, with a grandfather who was known as a prominent figure in the local community and who was a manager at a major machinery company. Y was quiet in elementary and junior high school, but her behavior changed when she entered high school.</p>
<figure id="attachment_293670" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 2736px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-293670"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a83fa9ea"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/IMG_3386-1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-293670" class="wp-caption-text">The girl was reported to the prefectural central child guidance center after the incident.</figcaption></figure>
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<p><strong> She smoked cigarettes and finally dropped out of high school. After that, I didn&#8217;t hear anything about her for a while, but I heard that she got married to someone from the next town. Things didn&#8217;t go well with his family over there, and they divorced around the same time their daughter, A, was born, and she returned to his parents&#8217; home in Makinohara. I heard that she was doing her best to raise her child on her own, so I was shocked to hear about this .&#8221; (a classmate of the mother&#8217;s from junior high school).</strong></p>
<p>When A was a child, her grandmother often let her play in front of the house in place of her mother, who was late getting home because of work. However, as A grew up, the mother and daughter were seldom seen outside together.</p>
<p><strong> The last time I saw the mother and daughter together was at a local festival 4~5 years ago, where A was dressed in a frilly gothic lolita outfit with ribbons. The mother stood out in her amazing mini-skirt. I once saw A&#8217;s room, which was lined with dolls and had the atmosphere of a doll&#8217;s house. She seemed like a girl in a box.</strong></p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead="Mother and daughter just before the incident"></div>
<p>When A entered junior high school, her grandmother bought her a bicycle to take her to and from school, and recently her grandmother has been seen taking the bicycle out of storage every morning for her, while A rides to and from school on her bicycle with a helmet on. A relative of both A and her grandmother told us what they were doing just before the incident.</p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;A&#8217;s grandfather often went fishing and gave us fish, so we would bring him vegetables instead. I give A a New Year&#8217;s gift every year, so I went to give it to him on New Year&#8217;s Day this year, too. My mother told me to thank her properly, and A came to the door and thanked me.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>He said that there seemed to be no problems between mother and daughter.</p>
<p><strong> She said, &#8220;Her mother, Y, was usually kind, but when she got angry, she would lose her temper and become agitated. I think she was trying not to let people say, &#8216;She&#8217;s a single mother.  They are pretty well off , and I think she wanted her daughter to wear something as nice as possible.&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p>The day after the incident, the girl&#8217;s grandmother contacted her relatives.</p>
<p><strong> The day after the incident, the girl&#8217;s grandmother contacted her relatives, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry for worrying you, I can&#8217;t even stay at home, so please leave me alone for now.</strong></p>
<p>It was a tragic incident that took place in a small town where everyone knew each other.</p>
<figure id="attachment_293672" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1009px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-293672"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ae3ba61f"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/IMG_3887.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-293672" class="wp-caption-text">Mother Y poses with her classmates during her school years.</figcaption></figure>


 The grandmother called the mother and the child "almost never saw them. There were even neighbors who didn't even know they lived there. ...... I don't think they were out much. The house where the crime scene took place used to be a large Japanese house.

A Phone Call Made by the Grandmother of the Junior High School who Stabbed Her Mother to Death

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