Father stabs son to death for not studying hard enough

A Japanese father allegedly killed his son with a kitchen knife after the boy was failing to study for a school entrance test, according to officials.

The boys father, Kengo Satake, told police he "argued with his son for not studying" for a test to enter a private junior high school, according to public broadcaster NHK.

Reports from AFP say the son, named Ryota, died from blood loss after he was taken to the hospital on Sunday.

Satake maintains that the stabbing was an accident. The father often scolded the son over his studies, as he'd been in the process to enter one of the leading private schools in the Aichi Prefecture, NHK said.

"The father stabbed his son in the chest with a kitchen knife," a police spokesman told AFP, declining to provide any more information.

According to local reports, the boy's mother was at work during the stabbing.

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