Murder in Miyoshi

In a small country town in Hiroshima prefecture, a murder. When I heard I expected to hear snippets of information spreading like wildfire - in the shops, on the radio, on local TV, in the paper, and on the lips of all and sundry. But the response has been subdued. Yes, it was on the radio. Yes, it warranted a rather small article in the local paper, but it hasn't been sensationalised. This surprised me in a smallish country town. It would have been all the talk in a similar-sized town in Britain, especially when the victim (a woman in her fifties) had been found stabbed upward of thirty times in the chest and head. It must have been a frenzied attack. Perhaps it didn't cause such a stir because the apparent killer (a taxi driver in his sixties) turned up at the police station an hour or so after the crime, and admitted everything. Drunk, and angry, he had called at the woman's house to claim back money she owed. Just in case she refused, he had taken a kitchen knife along with him.