Former top Japanese bureaucrat indicted for murdering son

Hideaki Kumazawa, a former top bureaucrat at the farm ministry, was indicted Friday for the murder of his 44-year-old son at their home in Tokyo.According to the indictment, the 76-year-old stabbed Eiichiro Kumazawa in the neck multiple times around 3:15 p.m. on June 1 and then called the police to say he had fatally stabbed his son, who later died in hospital due to massive blood loss.Hideaki Kumazawa later explained that his action was prompted by fear his son might harm children, seeing similarities with the case of Ryuichi Iwasaki, who stabbed a group of school children with a knife ear…READ FULL ARTICLE