Overview
- Takumi Inoue called emergency services and told operators he had killed his wife.
- Responding officers found 76-year-old Etsuko Inoue unconscious at the couple’s home, and a city hospital later confirmed her death.
- Police say the assault at the residence involved strangulation and blows to the head with a blunt object.
- Fukushima Prefectural Police arrested Inoue on suspicion of murder, and he has admitted the allegation.
- Investigators are reviewing motive and other details in a case police described as a two-person household.