Homicide - Tasatsu

Japanese: 他殺 - たさつ

A concept of suicide, generally referring to the act of intentionally taking the life of another person. The Japanese Criminal Code does not punish the act of suicide. It only punishes the act of participating in, instigating, or assisting the suicide of another person (Article 202). In contrast, the act of homicide is punished by distinguishing between ordinary murder, parricide, and the crimes of aiding suicide and homicide with consent, depending on the relationship between the victim and the assailant, the victim's consent, and whether or not there was a request. Some foreign legislation recognizes the distinction between premeditated murder and manslaughter, and infanticide, but the Japanese Criminal Code does not recognize these distinctions. The most common means and methods of homicide in Japan are injury with a sharp object, strangulation, and blows with a blunt object. The presence of defensive wounds, the absence of hesitation wounds, and injury to a part of the body that the victim could not have done by himself are characteristics of injuries to a homicide corpse. When strangling, the neck is wrapped around the neck less times in the case of homicide, and the knot is often tied in front or on the side. After a murder, attempts may be made to cover up the evidence of the violence by setting the house on fire to make it appear as if the victim had been burned, dumping the body in water to make it appear as if the victim had drowned, or running the body over with a car.

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Japanese:

自殺に対する概念で，故意に他人の生命を奪う行為を総称する。日本の刑法は，自殺行為を処罰しない。ただ他人の自殺行為に関与し，教唆，幇助などをする行為を処罰するにとどめている (202条) 。これに対し他殺行為は，被害者と加害者との身分関係，被害者の同意，嘱託の有無によって，普通殺人罪，尊属殺人罪，自殺関与罪・同意殺人罪を区別して処罰している。外国の立法例には，謀殺，故殺の区別や嬰児殺しなどを認めるものもあるが，日本の刑法はこれらの区別を認めていない。日本の他殺の手段，方法として多いのは，鋭器による損傷，絞殺，鈍体による殴打などである。防御創のあること，ためらい創のないこと，自分ではできないような部位の損傷であることなどは，他殺死体の損傷の特徴である。頸を絞める場合，他殺のときは頸部を巻く回数が少く，結び目は前または横のことが多い。他殺後に，家に放火して焼死にみせかけたり，水中に遺棄して溺死を装ったり，轢過して暴力の痕跡を隠蔽しようと試みられることがある。

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