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MAMBUSAO, Capiz -- Relatives and friends of slain Capiceña entertainer Chrisanta Lopez-Nagano and her seven-month-old son Naomasa cried for justice as they buried the mother and her son at the public cemetery of this town on Saturday.
Micheal Lopez, Chrisanta's younger brother, expressed fear that justice might not be served despite the admission of Japanese national Masayoshi Nagano that he killed his wife and son.
Chrisanta and her son were buried Saturday afternoon at the Mambusao Public Cemetery, located 35 kilometers from Roxas City.
The remains of the two were placed in separate coffins when they were brought from her residence in St. Francis Subdivision, Roxas City, at about 11 a.m., to St. Catherine Parish Church in Mambusao, Chrisanta's hometown. The body of Naomasa was later transferred to the coffin of Chrisanta as they were to be interred in a single tomb.
Micheal said they did not take pictures and video shots of the burial because they would like to remember Chrisanta and her son alive.
He said the family also wanted that all the properties owned by his sister in Japan be returned to Capiz.
Mambusao Vice Mayor Abel Martinez, who attended the burial, handed over to the Lopez family a municipal council resolution expressing sympathy and condolence to the family of Chrisanta.
A native of Barangay (village) Balit, Mambusao, Chrisanta, the resolution added, was a modern hero, who risked everything by living in a foreign land to work and raise money to be able to help her family back home.
On April 3, the provincial board of Capiz also extended sympathy to the bereaved family of Chrisanta who, along with her son, were killed by her Japanese husband on March 17.
The remains of Chrisanta and her son were flown to Capiz from Manila last Tuesday and were then brought to her house at the St. Francis Subdivision in Roxas City.
Reports said that prior to the killings, Nagano had reportedly been troubled by outstanding debts and his job as a bus driver. He surrendered to the police on March 20, three days after the killings, and admitted to killing his wife and son.
Joefer, another brother of Chrisanta, dismissed allegations that a huge loan made by his sister was the reason why her husband killed her.
He said Chrisanta, the second of five children of the late Supremo Lopez and Auria Mahusay, was not financially dependent on her husband as she even bought the house at St. Francis Subdivision before she met Nagano.
Chrisanta went to Nagara, Japan in 1998, and worked as an entertainer. She met Nagano in 2002. The couple came to Capiz in 2003 and got married in civil rites before returning to Japan. They came back in 2005 and were married at the Roxas City Metropolitan Cathedral. They last visited Capiz in August 2006.
