Kengo Satake stabs son Ryota to death in Japan for not studying

A FATHER has stabbed his son to death because he failed to study for a school entrance exam. He later told police he stabbed him “by mistake”.

A 12-year-old boy was stabbed to death by his own father in Japan for not studying. Picture: Supplied

A FATHER has stabbed his son to death because he failed to study for a school entrance exam. He later told police he stabbed him “by mistake”.

Kengo Satake, 48, told police in Japan that he “argued” with his 12-year-old son for not studying before the test required to enter a private junior high school, reports Metro.

Competition for entry to the best schools in Japan is intense. Admission to a prestigious one is seen as having a decisive impact on a child’s future prospects.

The son, named Ryota, was taken to hospital on Sunday after the stabbing but died from loss of blood, Aichi prefectural police in the central city of Nagoya said.

The school that Japanese boy Ryota was trying to get into to is extremely competitive. Picture: Supplied

“The father stabbed his son in the chest with a kitchen knife,” a police spokesman said, declining to provide details of the motive.

The father was arrested after police got a call from hospital staff, he said.

Mr Satake reportedly told police he had stabbed his son “by mistake”.

The boy was aiming to enter one of the leading private schools in Aichi prefecture and his father had regularly scolded him over his studies, NHK said, citing people with knowledge of the family.

The boy’s mother was at work when the incident occurred, the Asahi Shimbun daily reported.