European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stirs sympathy in u Magazine by Tamara Jones associated press t heal Ironia Brach . N ally deserted that afternoon a n in stooped together seashells along the Luxl Shore tsar a Monica Deal to the laughter of a Toon age couple mock no the King quits just North of Tho Pior. N woman Dre. Of d i Pink walked toward Tho Chilly water with i /., Young children Fumiko Kinura clutched a month old Yuri to her Chest while 4-Yoar-old Kazutaka  Perez ahead. Happily scooping up lists Lul of Sand. Kimura set her purse and Tho Baha Aper bag Down on the hard vol Sand and or k  a he hand. No one saw them enter the Suil the teen agers spotted the bodies i sating about 30 Yards trom Shore when a sea Gull Sud i Only swooped out Over the Waves the Mother survived Ino children did not. Kimura told police from her Hospital bed that she had attempted Parent child suicide. In her native Japan in happens Almi. To daily they Call it Soyako Shinjun California. They Call it lust degree murder. The Case has generated  attention and considerable Public support Lor Kimura. 32. Who laces a  death penal / it Eon ice d in a Tea scheduled to begin nov 1 la  p.-. I m the United Stales Japan and urine  a Pomi o. Called Tho Santa Monica  Allon. O  they want her Lobo in at d As so  in a an a lenient sentence and  a  said Lauren Weis the de Pul District ii n v prosecuting the Case Kimura s attorney. Gerald . Has limited  he will prepare an insanity defense Portra ing her a a doting Mother who apparently suffered a is Colic episode after learning thai her husband had Toa Sunlai Thull. As she awaits Inal a my a if alone in the in in cell where  Alie i held on $100.000   the binary a he do ads with Bleak Peni a prose about  and weakness. Jut Moll. Fun no  writes Aboul the my Tho Ocean Borrere Kim i n1  it i her life was never As simple As her poetry Faim had shadowed her since childhood. On the Ali in n of Jan. 29. Burniko Kimura failed at her own my id living is hard and dog a hard she told to / on yes tin if. In a b 1 .1". Whin l i. No a Klausner no longer f rails or to -.1 Al Witti Ruport Eis. Her Stor is pieced together through pol co Fumiko Kin Uro at Santa Monica calif., court How � charged with slaying he two children. Tuesday october 15. 1985 intern As with lawyers i " by a. Fumiko Kimura was one of six r Ini Iron Iron a broken Home s".,. Earned decent Grade in h h but i my Entrance  to Japan s National my. Univ Rosity where she had hoped to turn 10 years e piano los on Inlo a classical music career she journeyed to California and enrolled in a Community College  All 14 years in the United slate-., she still has not rna Stei d English. According to Klausner she sold hot dogs in dodger  and work Das a waitress to make end1moot she married a japanese american but alter eight years thai too. Ended in failure he lacked ambition and did not want children thru  met its Roku Kilimn a the restaurant where they both worked 1 his married so years Acon and she Lulu her dream of motherhood Friend and relative described the Kiuras As Loving  paints who r ing to japanese traditions the trouble began when tin pm on. Rang nine Days before she walked into the sea a Japan e Wai Ross on the i tier of  i she had i " n  Kinura s Loer i a More i an three years she Aski d in talk with Fumiko  the following Day mrs Kimura agreed facing the Prospect of a second divorce she was again filled with a sense of failure la sudoku Kimura had supported the Wai Liess and had seen her a Low times a week Tho mistress viewed her Lover a graduate of Tokyo s Musashi arts University As an unfulfilled Painter who had abandoned his dream to support a family. She showed Fumiko Kimura his love letters. Tho mistress told investigators Hal she had become pregnant by Kimura in 198? but had an abortion at ins insistence. She said he told her he did not want More children. Then the mistress Learned late last year that la sudoku Kimura s Wile had borne him a second child on the morning of Jon. 29, the mistress got two Telephone Calls she could hear children in the background but the caller Hung up without speaking. Shortly alter 2 p m. That Day. Kimura. Clutching her drowned children Lay lace Down in the cold water waiting Lor death on Jan. 31. Detective Ray Cooper and a japanese speaking Allicer visited Kimura in her Hospital room and asked in she knew that killing her children was against the Law. Kimura said no. Anthropologists say children Are considered an Extension of then parents in traditional japanese thinking that together they form one unit although illegal Parent child suicide is considered an honorable Way to die. In the japanese mind to Lake the children is More merciful than to leave them behind when a Mother commits  said mar Noru Iga a japanese born sociologist Al California stale University Al North do a Mother who survives Parent child suicide is Seldom punished he said. She is considered instead a pitiful victim of  Japan s suicide prevention Assn. Reports about 300 cases of Parent child suicide a year under japanese Law parents who Surv of Obj of in Nyu Cari lace murder charges and a possible death penalty or prison term. No charges Are filed if a Parent was considered mentally deranged Al the time. Regardless of How sympathetically Parent child suicide is regarded in Japan there is no such thing As a cultural Dolorse in the United  said Weis the prosecutor. There Are just too Many cultures in the u s. To treat people As they would be in their own  she said. They come Here and agree to abide by our  the stars and stripes Page 13