<figure id="attachment_459039" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459039" style="width: 2348px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="00ee702f"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/38ae4a1a8eff03d688fd413fd54ffbea.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459039" class="wp-caption-text">Liu (pseudonym) leaving the Otsu District Public Prosecutors Office. When a police officer tried to pull his jumper over his head, he shook it off himself and glared at the press (from the March 10, 2006 issue).</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> When I get excited, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;</span></h3>
<p> What was &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; reporting 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In this edition of &#8220;Playback Friday,&#8221; we revisit topics that were popular at the time. This time, we take a look at the March 10, 2006 issue, which was published 20 years ago, in <span class="strongInContent">the &#8220;Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Daughter strangled, incoherent phone calls the night before the incident&#8230;&#8221; We also</span> take a look at the <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;Chinese wife&#8221; who savagely murdered two preschool children, and the signs of her murderous acts</span>.</p>
<p> On February 17, 2006, at around 9:00 a.m., a passerby found A (then 5) and B (then 5), who attended a nearby kindergarten, lying in a pool of blood on a farm road in Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture, and called 119. They were rushed to the hospital, where A was immediately pronounced dead and B died after receiving no medical attention.</p>
<p> The mother of the two classmates was arrested two hours later at the Mano Interchange in Otsu City, about 50 km away. Even before the incident, she had been exhibiting a number of &#8220;abnormal behaviors&#8221; (descriptions in parentheses are quotes from past articles; titles are current at the time).</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;Suddenly, she began to strangle my mother-in-law. When I hurriedly pulled her away and said, &#8216;What are you doing? She had even strangled her own daughter. When she gets excited, she doesn&#8217;t know what she is doing.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The man who said this was a relative of Liu Jialing (pseudonym, 34 at the time), aka Ando Shizuka, who killed two preschool children by stabbing them to death. Horrifyingly, the suspect had even laid a hand on his own daughter.</span></p>
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<p> As for the motive for the crime, Liu <span class="strongInContent">said, &#8220;My child doesn&#8217;t fit in with the other children. The reason they don&#8217;t fit in is because the children around them are bad. I killed him because I knew that if I didn&#8217;t do something about it, my child would be ruined.</span></p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">Her mental state was extremely unstable.</span></h3>
<p> Liu was born in Heilongjiang Province, China, and came to Japan in 1999 through a marriage broker to meet her husband, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, and they married. In 2004, they moved to a newly built house in Nagahama City. It was true that she was worried about her daughter at the time.</p>
<p> However, it is inexplicable that she would use that to commit the heinous act of slaughtering two young children.</p>
<p> Liu&#8217;s behavior became strange when she gave birth to her daughter in 2001 and moved to an apartment in Nagahama City. The testimony of the male relative mentioned at the beginning of this article was made around that time, and he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and hospitalized for four months from March 2004. Even after he was discharged from the hospital, he had broken glass in his home and stabbed his daughter with a needle.</p>
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<p> The night before the incident, Liu&#8217;s mental state was still extremely unstable.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;I heard from an acquaintance that he called her out of the blue and kept talking incoherently. He then asked again and again, &#8216;Is my body okay?&#8217; No matter how many times I told him, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m fine,&#8217; he would not be convinced and kept repeating the same questions. Unable to handle the situation, he unilaterally hung up the phone,&#8221; said a Chinese woman who knew the suspect.</span></p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The next morning, his confused state of mind had not recovered.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When Liu was in an unstable state of mind, her husband called her parents at home to take care of her while he was at work.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> On the morning of the day in question, he called his parents&#8217; house and said, &#8216;My wife is sick again. When the husband came to pick up his parents around 9:30 a.m., he said, &#8216;My wife is taking my daughter to kindergarten right now.</span></p>
<p> It was at that very moment that the incident occurred.</p>
<p> Liu had stopped going to the hospital at his own discretion since around October of &#8217;05.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">&#8221;I just stabbed a sand puppet.&#8221;</span></h3>
<p> Liu was indicted for murder on March 10, &#8217;06.&#8217; At his first trial on February 2, 2007, he denied the indictment <span class="strongInContent">, saying, &#8220;I just stabbed a sand doll</span>. After that, he repeatedly made unintelligible statements and did not admit to the crime, such as saying, <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;The earplugs say that the two (victim preschoolers) are not dead.</span> He also frequently caused a commotion by spitting and <span class="strongInContent">repeatedly saying &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do anything&#8221; to</span> stop the trial.</p>
<p> In October 2007, the first trial court ruled that Liu&#8217;s crime was &#8221; <span class="strongInContent">a selfish and cold-blooded act based on an evil supposition that his eldest daughter was being bullied by a preschooler.</span> The <span class="strongInContent">consequences of taking the lives of two innocent and innocent young children are grave.</span></p>
<p> On the other hand, he admitted that she was in a state of &#8220;diminished mental capacity&#8221; due to the effects of schizophrenia, and reduced her death sentence to life imprisonment. Both the prosecution and the defense appealed, but the case was dismissed and the sentence became final on March 9, 2009.</p>
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<p> After the incident, there was no confirmation that Liu&#8217;s daughter had been bullied at the kindergarten or in the surrounding area. Liu felt lonely and that she did not fit in in Japan. The second trial judge noted, &#8220;She became mentally unstable due to schizophrenia, and her delusion that her eldest daughter was being bullied by the victim children led her to commit the crime.&#8221;</p>
<p> The incident occurred during a group school day chaperoned by a parent or guardian.</p>
<p> Four parents, Liu&#8217;s daughter, A, B, and another preschooler who was scheduled to go to the hospital that day and escaped harm, took turns driving the children to and from the school. Liu had requested individual transportation, but after discussions with the kindergarten, they decided to attend the school as a group.</p>
<p> The incident, which took place during a drop-off and pick-up operation to protect the children from suspicious persons and at the hands of the parents who were picking them up, shocked parents of young children across the country.</p>
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 Kenji Natsume

 In this issue of Playback, we look back at what we reported 10, 20, and 30 years ago. This time, we focus on the "Nagahama City Kindergarten Murder Case" that occurred on February 17, 2006. The murderer was the mother of a classmate of the victim.

Playback ’06] Chinese Mother Who Slaughtered Two Preschoolers, “A Prelude to Violent Actions,” Says Her Own Children Will Be Ruined.

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