"Don't worry, go to bed," wrote Koji Tsunomori to his wife of three weeks at around 8 p.m. Friday evening.
Those words would be their last exchange.
Tsunomori, 54, sent the message as he drove from his home in Yasugi, in Shimane Prefecture. He had yet to move in with his new wife, 44-year-old Nana, who lived some 200 kilometers away with her two sons and her mother, in a two-story, wooden house in picturesque Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture.