TOKYO: A Japanese man wielding a sword killed his sister, a Shinto priestess, on the grounds of a Tokyo shrine, then stabbed his wife to death before committing suicide, police and media said. Shigenaga Tomioka, 56, attacked Nagako Tomioka, 58, chief priestess of the Tomioka Hachimangu shrine, as she got out of a car. His 49-year-old wife, Mariko, stabbed and wounded the driver of the car with a sword, police said, before she too was killed. Shigenaga sent a threatening letter to his sister in 2006, saying he would “send her to hell“, the Sankei newspaper said. The Tomioka Hachimangu shrine, established in 1627, has a close link with sumo and the emperor and empress visited in 2012.

Source: New Strait Times December 10, 2017 04:52 UTC