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bodies in bathtubs murders from the dark web and entire Studios sent to their grave Japan is home to some of the most
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deplorable actions ever seen in the modern-day world this is a striking contradiction to the country's
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extraordinarily low crime rate which reports a homicide rate of only 0.3 per
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100,000 population however when things go wrong here they often manifest in some of the most bizarre insane and
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outright terrifying ways imaginable so come join me in this extended session
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where we take a look at some of the most crazy stories this amazing country has to offer welcome back to Coffee House
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[Music] welcome to Japan folks a country that
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seamlessly blend sacred Traditions with cuttingedge technology from steel monoliths such as Tokyo Tower and the
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internationally recognized Mount Fuji all the way down to its 25,000 onsens and hot springs and more than 100
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million Sushi eaten per day let me tell you this country will never disappoint you much like life and death Japan's
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iconic cherry blossoms symbolize fleeting Beauty which thereby reflects the nation's Everlasting appreciation
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for impermanence renowned for its Precision craftsmanship Culinary Artistry and K eut Japan's cultural
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influence seems to extend far beyond its borders yet beneath its rather polite
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facade lies a complex World Grappling with societal pressures and demographic shifts pressure that at times manifests
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itself in the most morbid of ways our video today begins Northwest of Tokyo in
Ana Saito
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ASA Japan and one of those living there was firste Middle School student Anna Sao now Anna isn't actually her real
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name much like the commonly used Western name Jane Doe it's a placeholder name often used when the true name of a
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person is either unknown or hidden our story today begins in the year 2014 and born in the year 2001 Anna was 13 years
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old at the time not a lot is known about her former childhood or her family but what is known is that she grew up with
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both parents by her side in a comfortable home in aaka she was described as intelligent and witty for
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her age and was also known to be kind and well behaved in other words not one to Break The Rules or rebel against her
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parents overall there was really nothing abnormal about her she was sweet like to
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spend time with her friends and was well-liked in school teachers described her as a clever girl with a very
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prosperous future she likes to participate in ballet and although she was only in her first year of Middle
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School Anna showed a significant amount of commitment by becoming a member of the student council smart promising and
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punctual these were the three words used to describe anner however in March 2014
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that final characteristic would for want of a better word
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disappear March 10th 2014 it was a Monday and the weather was
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partly cloudy with a low temperature dipping just below freezing the time was 3:30 P.M a.m. school had just finished
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for the day and Anna was making her way home via her usual route although she was only 13 years old she was trusted to
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make it back home safely by herself you see in Japan it is very normal for children to walk home from a very young
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age even without the tradition of trust Japan is considered a very safe country to live in therefore seeing a young
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child on their own walking home is nothing out of the ordinary but when Anna's parents returned home after their
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own long days at work Anna was uncharacteristically known where to be seen Searchers around the house and
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calling her name in the garden yielded no response back and calling her friends and the school was not productive either
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as no one had seen her the sco family were beginning to panic and that is when they realized waiting for them in the
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post box was a letter it didn't say much but the handwriting was unmistakably hers and written inside it said I'm
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taking a break from school and home don't come looking for me now this was
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highly out of character for Anna she was a well behaved young girl who would have never struck out on her own accord like
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this furthermore if she did actually want to run away from her parents then why did she leave all her favorite
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possessions and her Essentials behind none of this made any sense the syo family were very quick to report a
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disappearance to the authorities and by Nightfall wanted posters were being displayed all across the local area
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these posters highlighted that she was likely wearing a school uniform at the time of her disappearance unfortunately
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the authorities didn't have a lot of leads to go on and although a neighbor was able to confirm that they had seen
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her that afternoon it didn't lead to any major breakthroughs but alarmingly the neighbor did highlight that she was
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speaking to a young man outside of her home which led officers to believe that she was either abducted or had run away
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with him but sadly nothing more came from the sighting and as the sun rose over Tokyo Anna's family realized that
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this was so much more than just a nightmare their daughter had vanished Without a Trace and there was nothing
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they could do ours soon turned into days and as those passed the family were
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getting increasingly desperate but on the ninth day of her disappearance another letter found its way to the
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scoto family's post box and this one read I'm doing fine I apologize for
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causing so much stress don't look for me investigators intervened to analyze the Letter's handwriting and although it was
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confirmed to belong to Anna its mannerisms did not match the way in which she spoke it was therefore
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theorized that she may have been forced to write this the stamp on the letter confirmed that it was sent from from
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Chiba prefecture located 25 Mi east of Tokyo local officers were assigned to
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look into it but their efforts would ultimately be fruitless and although the family had hoped to receive another
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letter from Anna their hopes would never come to fruition because after this Anna would go radio silent and just like that
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she [Music]
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disappeared unknown to the rest of the world Anna
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had been abducted by a man named kabu terauchi and kabo was a very strange and
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weird man born in the year 1992 kabo was 22 years old at the time of Anna disappearance originally from Aida
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located in Osaka prefecture he was raised in a wealthy family both parents were successful business owners with his
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father owning a security company which specialized in physical home security components this included things such as
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door locks window fences and rails now kaboo did very well in high school and was often ranked at the very top of his
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class however he was known to be quiet and didn't have many friends either and in fact he seemed to be quite obsessive
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over particular things and sometimes came across quite creepy he was even considered to be somewhat of a hiku
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Kumori and nataku for reference Japan refers to hikori as a form of severe social withdrawal characterized by teens
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and adults who are extreme recluses and are often unable to work or go to school ataku are people who are obsessed with
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particular aspects of Pop Culture such as Manga and Anime and in kab's case this was anime kabo was ultimately very
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successful with his academics he attended an aviation School in Tokyo before eventually moving to California
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where he obtained his pilot's license from another Aviation school after graduating in September 2013 he then
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made the move back to Tokio where he undertook an engineering degree at chibi University while studying here Pierce
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called him quiet particular particular and a little odd but as far as they knew he was happy enough but no one knew of
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his new dark and terrible secrets and from March 2014 onwards he kept 13-year-old Anna captive in his home
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during the days he would attend classes and see friends as if nothing was happening before returning to his home
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in the evenings to focus on his own human experiment so before we continue with this story it may be worth asking
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ourselves what precisely happened in the leadup to Anna's sudden abduction well it All Began about one week prior kabo
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had long desired to abduct and observe a young female student he wanted to see how her thoughts behavior and body would
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change over time and furthermore he wanted to isolate her from society and see how she would react under his own
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soul influence he started his plan by searching for the optimal place to find a victim doing this through an
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internet-based mapping application very similar to Google Maps this is how he found a city that fit his criteria and
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Asaka seemed to be the perfect place for him to carry out the abduction it met all of the right conditions since it was
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neither Countryside nor too Urban and although kaboo was not familiar with the city he was able to visit it in person
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and observe it online now that the location had been selected he drove to aaka to scope the place and its victims
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out this is when he came across Anna Sayo he noticed that she often walked home alone from school and recognized he
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could use this to his Advantage after following her he decided to do some investigating and after looking through
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the home's placard and various other items around the property he learned of her actual name it was 1 week later on
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March the 10th 2014 that he finally decided to kidnap her it was a Monday and at around 400 p.m. Anna was walking
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home from school and this is when kaboo approached her from outside of her own home he tricked her into going with him
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by falsely telling her that her parents were getting divorced and that he was the family's lawyer and furthermore he
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was willing to take her to both of her parents who were supposedly waiting at his office since kaboo knew Anna's full
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name she unfortunately believed him and the story and therefore agreed to get into his car however instead of going to
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an office he then drove 40 mi from aaka to his own home in Chiba it was at this stage that kaboo had a new and very
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different story to tell her he now claimed that her parents were actually planning on killing her the family were
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supposedly now in debt and they wanted to fix this by cutting out her internal organs and selling them on the black
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market in addition to this he presented a forged audio recording to her which allegedly revealed a discussion between
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her parents agreeing to such an idea idea and this is where the real persuasion and manipulation began he
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started to tell Anna that he was the only one who cared for her and the only one who would protect her that he was
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her new savior the only one she could rely on he also told her things such as nobody is coming for you nobody cares
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about you you've been thrown away and you're all alone over the weeks months and then years this repeated narrative
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started to become factual in Her Mind by the way this psychological phenomenon is actually quite common and it even has a
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name the elusory truth effect is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure
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repetition makes statements easy to process compared to new unrepeated statements leading people to believe
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that the repeated conclusion is more truthful now Anna was in an extremely influential stage of her life at 13 she
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was old enough to understand the core workings of the world but she was still rapidly learning new things within novel
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environments she couldn't fully discern what was fact from fiction and alongside his repetitive rhetoric she started to
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believe kaboo add the widely known phenomenon of Stockholm syndrome to the mix which is a condition where a hostage
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develops feelings of trust and affection towards the captor and she was evidently wrapped in a world full of confusion her
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mind was playing a game of psychological warfare for many months and even years after this and while she recognized that
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something wasn't quite right about her situation she stayed put alongside him unfortunately kaboo was busy with his
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own experiments too the young man had become obsessed with brainwashing and hallucinogens and after learning that
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morning glory flowers had hallucinogenic properties he would frequently her drinks with them Anna was confined to a
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single room within his apartment which as we know was located 25 Mi east of Tokyo in Chiba the room was heavily
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guarded by kaboo almost all of the time and although she was given Comforts and conveniences he made it very hard for
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her to escape for example the bedroom door could only be opened from the outside and all external windows and
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Patio doors were locked and ironically the iron rails bolted on the outside of his property were actually proprietary
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to his own father's security business now there were actually multiple occasions where kaboo forgot to close a
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window or door and on these occasions Anna wandered a short distance from the property only to return before he got
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back home Anna did find the courage and strength to escape during one of these Ventures but after approaching her
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mother and asking her for help she said she had her own children to look after and Sho Anna away trying a second in
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time several weeks later Anna made her way to a local park where she found an old woman but unfortunately after asking
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for help this woman refused and ignored her both of these occasions reinforced The Narrative that no one cared about
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Anna and that furthermore she had no better place to be than Cabo's apartment
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and although kaboo never found out about Adventures outside neither did anyone else with not a single neighbor noticing
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her exit the apartment or wander around the area on occasion kaboo would actually take her out outside on small
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excursions she sometimes accompanied him for dinner to a restaurant or to a supermarket but she was always unable to
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escape because she was forced to hold his hand this highly abnormal and dysfunctional Dynamic continued for a
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large stretch of time and by February of 2016 anasto had been missing for almost
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2 years the burden and pain her mother and father felt was enormous it is no
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secret that a child missing for that length of time is usually indicative of very bad news but but despite 23 months
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of Silence they still held on to hope she was still out there somewhere both of them could instinctively feel it and
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Anna was indeed still alive although under captivity with kaboo still watching and observing her in
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anticipation of his imminent graduation from Chiba University he made the move from Chiba to an apartment near higashi
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Nano station found in Tokyo's Nano Ward this move was the first one he had made in years and Anna would go with him now
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the apartment was nothing special but it did do its job located a few floors up it had a balcony and a somewhat
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restricted view of Tokyo and hey the bedroom that Anna was kept in even had a door handle this time which is a very
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important detail to the next part of our story because that was when on Sunday
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March 27th 2016 a very sudden and shocking twist in the story occurred a
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phone call was made to the SAU residents and after Anna's mother picked up the receiver a small voice responded back it
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was Anna and her mother instantly knew it was her she hadn't heard her daughter's voice for 2 years 2 weeks and
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3 days yet here she was on the other end of the line Anna had finally managed to
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escape from Cabo's home after being told that he was heading out to Akihabara City to buy a mobile phone she bed her
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time and checked the locks fortunately he had forgotten to lock the door and so after waiting a few minutes she grabbed
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170 n from the kitchen about $130 or1 Sterling after running out of the
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apartment she found herself Tashi Nano station and after noticing the green public pay phones she made the call back
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home moments later she called the police she was wearing sandals and a thin set of clothes which clearly was not enough
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to Shield against Japan's cold winter and after recognizing that she was the one in the missing posters police
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officers then escorted her to nits police station located inside Tama and hours later she was finally reunited
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with her parents miraculously Anna was in pretty good health and in Fairly High Spirits and although she' spent 2 years
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in captivity fortunately she was not subject to any physical or sexual violence now as far as these stories can
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go the conclusion so far had been one of great happiness Not only was she alive and uninjured but it seemed as if she
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was not victim to any abuse either however there were other parameters that officers would now have to look at and
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unfortunately it became pretty obvious that a 2-year long experience had greatly and negatively affected her
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mental health Anna had developed a severe case case of PTSD and anxiety she
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was 2 years behind school and without dressing it up had lost 2 years of her childhood so although the initial
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conclusion seemed to be pretty good the road to recovery would be long and uncertain following her escape and the
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heavy presence of the authorities kabo knew he was in a ton of trouble and in a panic he escaped to the countryside
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to plan out his next move he wouldn't get very far though as at around 3:00 a.m. the next morning he was finally
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detained by police officers after they responded to an emergency call made by newspaper delivery man he was found
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standing in the road with a box cutter covered in blood with a substantial laceration injury to his neck he
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eventually admitted that he' attempted to take his own life by slashing his neck with a box cutter though with a
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blade so blunt all he did was managed to make a mess of it kaboo was admitted to the hospital discharged 3 days later and
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then arrested immediately upon exit after his arrest kabo admitted that he'd wanted to carry out a kidnapping ever
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since since his young teenage years while in junior high school he also admitted that on the night he tried to take his own life he fled North to the
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countryside got drunk on beer and whiskey and then tried to use the box cutter found on the back of a receipt on
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his being were the words I committed a terrible crime therefore suggesting his intention but as we know he would not
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get the results he wanted and in return for his own life he would now have to face the courts of Tokyo instead now
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kabo had actually graduated from uni just 5 days before his arrest but before his trial even began they would strip
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him of his degree and all possible merits moving into the legal proceedings of this case Cabo's trial began in
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August 2017 however the judge ultimately postponed a ruling after kaboo threw his
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trial into confusion with some extremely erratic Behavior kabo made strange noises spoke unintelligibly shrieked as
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he entered the courtroom and even claimed to be a fairy of the forest he further claimed that he no longer
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understood Japanese and was now an amoeba which is a single cell and often parasitic or organism that can invade a
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host and sometimes even consume brain tissue it's not entirely clear if this was an act to appear insane or if he had
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truly lost the plot a psychiatric evaluation conducted by the court found that he did in fact have a mild case of
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autism but there were otherwise no other conditions they could definitively conclude on prosecutors claimed that
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kaboo should be held liable as the kidnapping and confinement of anasayo was deliberately planned and executed
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but his defense countered this arguing that he should not be held responsible for his actions as he was suffering from
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schizophrenia the judge who ultimately ruled the decision commented that the defendant was aware that his actions
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were both wrong and illegal as he made multiple attempts to prevent them from being revealed one of these attempts
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included the use of a stolen number plate during the Abduction the judge further said the confinement lasted for
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a significantly long period of time dealing an unimaginable blow to the victim by depriving her of her precious
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time the defense argued that Anna's account suggested there was no physical violence or verbal or sexual abuse
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during her confinement but Anna's own psychological review was not so positive
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it concluded that she had developed a severe case of PTSD as a result of his actions and even a year after her
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release she was still suffering from debilitating flashbacks and was still struggling to readjust to society she
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furthermore had severe social issues struggled to connect to people and was often too scared to go outside alone
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kaboo himself argued that he'd only committed the crime because quote the instructions were sent to my brain and
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he also said that he was very sorry to the examination subject when asked why he was calling her that he said he
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considered his crime to be an experimentation and he further added that he wanted to treat her as an animal
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not as a human being on March the 12th 2018 The saitama District Court sentenced kabuchi to 9 years in prison
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for his role in abducting and imprisoning Anna but there appeared to be some contention on both sides of this
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verdict while the public prosecutors demanded a minimum term of 15 years kabo unsurprisingly wanted less and appealed
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but the high courts rejected his appeal and to really rub saltan the wound in February 2019 they readjusted a sentence
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to 12 years instead nullifying the Lower Court ruling of nine with his arrest occurring in 2016 he has already served
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more than half of his sentence Behind Bars he is scheduled to be released from prison in the year 2028 in the meanwhile
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Anna has moved on with her life and will be 27 by the time he is released Anna's father said that deep down he believed
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that eventually she would return home seeing her for the first time in 2 years his first words to her were you hung in
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there welcome back speaking to the press her father shared I am really relieved I
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want to spend time with my daughter so that we can regain the time we've lost Anna claims that one of the many things
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which gave her hope was being aware of her parents' efforts and actions throughout the months and years she hadd
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become aware of their activities via the Internet which she frequently had access to while kaboo was out of the apartment
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several articles described her family leading search parties to find her and her father frequently handing out flyers
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to the general public it is unclear what Anna is up to these days as quite obviously she's trying to hide from the
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spotlight but I hope that wherever she is and whatever she's doing she's happy and thriving in her environment although
Rie Isogai
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Anna's case ended relatively peacefully I unfortunately can't say the same about the next one this Story begins in iich
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prefecture and deep in the folds of the dark web now many of us are aware that the dark web can be used for rather
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illegal activities but what if I told you that it can also be used for murder well this story highlights one of those
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moments and the terrible consequences that followed and so without further Ado here is the case of r as ay now despite
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its ominous sounding name not all of the dark web is used for illicit purposes but indeed it is an area for scammers
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fraudsters and other illegal activity to flourish and throughout recent years fonus activity here has become more
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frequent more severe and even more creative the worst corners of the dark web includes forgery and hacking illegal
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pornography and even murder for higher services and on August 17th 2007 amongst
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this dark virtual world one fateful message appeared in the forums of one of these hidden websites I'm looking for a
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partner in crime the message read I just got out of prison would anyone else like to work with me in the toay region the
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ominous messages author went by the username Yamashita which was a pseudonym used for Yam no Shuan roughly
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translating to the job of darkness in English and the person behind it was a 40-year-old man who went by the name of
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Kenji kawagishi Kenji was not your typical stand-up citizen bullied as a child due to his ongoing kidney disease
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he became a delinquent in Japan society and although he eventually settles down with a wife and four children after
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several minor convictions he would sadly eventually return to the world of illegal activity in August of 1999 he
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began to use the dark web to obtain open and sell bank accounts which could then be used for a fraudulent activity
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although this brought in extra cash for the family his spending habits rapidly outweighed this new stream of income and
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by 2002 his apartment was ultimately seized due to tax fraud and missing mortgage repayments now unfortunately
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Kenji was also allegedly abusive towards his family yet thankfully his wife didn't put up with this she and
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the kids fled for their safety shortly after these signs started to appear appear and eventually the two settled
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for divorce but Kenji grew exhausted with his life after this and between the years 2003 and 2007 he was in and out of
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prison on several convictions of fraud despite these charges he continued to use the dark web after this and often
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moved from job to job which was usually in transportation or commercial security at the time of posting his message on
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the dark web he had just come out of prison on yet again more fraudulent activity and was now living out of his
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car in isai city and after reaching out into the unknown world world of the dark web three other men responded just a
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heads up but we're going to exclude one of them as eventually he bailed out of the scheme and was never involved in
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this case however the other two were far more guilty sukasa Kanda was a 36-year-old with a similarly troubled
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history to Kenji bullied at school and suffering from chronic headaches he was also abused by his father and this
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volatile and deeply harmful environment led tasa to join local gangs and commit minor crimes however eventually in 19 89
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he graduated from takasaki Technical High School he began to use the dark web in 1997 was convicted of Fraud and then
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found himself a job at the newspaper company isahi shiman allegedly he often got in trouble with his colleagues and
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his boss and his Tome salary was so low that he received weekly pocket money from his girlfriend to support him at
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the time and so similar to Kenji sakasa was also in debt and was financially
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desperate Yoshi tomori a 32-year-old darts player from the same area area also responded to the message and
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although he had no prior criminal history he was over 4 million yen in debt the equivalent of
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$3,000 or £25,000 although there were several other replies to the message on the dark
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web Kenji selected these two to work with and just a few days later on August 21st 2007 the three met at Yosi Tomo's
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residence it is here that they began to formulate a devious scheme to make money all three men were in crippling debt and
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blinded by both panic and greed they simultaneously expressed a cold disregard for the welfare of others
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their drafts contained several plans which included pickpocketing kidnapping and even a heist against a Pachinko
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parlor which by the way is a type of Japanese Casino the trio tried to conduct one of these plans the next day
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on August 22nd and their plan was rather simple Target a Pachinko paraa customer
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follow him home and then abduct him and Rob him of his money however after tailing his Lexus vehicle they realized
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his home was alarmed and he had a dog and so there was no way they were going to get him after following another
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Target home the next day they were very disappointed to realize that he was in a very tight security building and so yet
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again the heist was called off the group came closest to making money when they used a stolen credit card to buy a gold
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necklace at the local Don kyot but sadly or rather not sadly this also failed by
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the way for those who don't know Don coyot is an incredible experience to have when visiting Japan the buildings
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are usually massive and sells pretty much everything you can think of and and in a good way I remember being
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absolutely overwhelmed when I went there from instant noodles to Underpants frying pans to dog beds and Pokémon
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costumes all the way through to uh Tanga eggs Don kyote has you covered it's kind
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of like a multi-level department store cross treasure hunt and I bet my bottom dollar that you'll be sure to leave with
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a suitcase worths of stuff the place sells really cool stuff and not even sure why but when I went on coyot I
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bought 10 of these in like 10 different colors kind of cool though right anyway so it appears that our three men
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were not having any luck with their plans and with their failure came both frustration and Desperation and
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tragically the very next day and after upping the ante their devious schemes would come with some very harrowing
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consequences August 24th 2007 it was a Friday and at 10 p.m. that evening young
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office worker R isagi was walking through the streets of ngoya to return home from her job the day was long in
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the tooth and with it being a Friday the working week had overstayed its welcome rier worked in the office of a semilocal
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firm most of her tasks were administrative meaning she was not someone particularly high ranking in the
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company but was just as essential to keep it ticking along trying to find recognition and reward for her hard work
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she stayed late to finish her duties that Friday and by the time she had almost made it home that night the
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streets of Kanagawa were dark and silent but no worries she only had a few more corn to walk to make it back to her
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front door looking into her past R had always been a hardworking and thoughtful individual she was born on July 20th
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1976 to her father soshi and mother fiko sadly she was only a child when her
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father passed away this tragically leaving both her and her mother to fend for themselves but through this the two
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formed an Inseparable Bond and although she dropped out of high school she impressed her mother by jumping straight
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into work to add to this R even held on to the dream of one day buying her mother a house rier loved board games in
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fact one of her favorites was called go and in her spare time she often met friends and even made new ones at go
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cafes across the city she was a strong willed person yet caring all the same time and now that she had reached her
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30s she was focused on progressing her career which takes us back to the story to August 24th 2007 residing in k 2 of
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jakusa w in Nagoya Ria used the higashiyama line to reach her local station at motoyama this was part of her
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usual commute and once there she made the one M walk back home it was just past 11:00 p.m. when she walked past an
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idle vehicle and with no reason to be alarmed she ignored it without giving it any second thought it was at this moment
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though that the car made a u-turn and discretely passed by rier peering up she noticed a man nervously looking around
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at the buildings and as she approached him he turned around to ask her a question politely I'm looking for the
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local convenience store do you know where I could find it Ria stopped to answer however before she could even
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answer him she turned around to see another man lunge at her and all in the meanwhile the car she had spotted before
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had now hastily parked up next to them R screamed out loud but nobody in the neighborhood had heard her and before
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she even knew it she was in the back of their vehicle a vehicle that was now speeding off into the
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distance the consequences of that night were discovered the very next day a body
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was found around 35 Mi Northeast of ngoya and in the mountains near mitsun Nami it had been partially buried near a
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bridge from Route 33 and tragically this body belonged to the as a guy she was
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discovered by the authorities just after 700 p.m. meaning she had been missing for just over 20 hours despite being
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concealed in a remote location she had been discovered very quickly for a very good reason because the one to break the
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news would be none other than one of The Killers themselves earlier that day the authorities were greeted with a very
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concerning phone call and after picking up the phone the voice said I kidnapped a woman I stole her money killed her and
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then buried her in gefu prefecture as you can likely guess the three men to abduct in Kill Reus the guy were Kenji
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yoso and sakasa and she'd become their first and only victim from the dark web after abducting R and planning to rob
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her of all her money they then murdered her In Cold Blood before moving 35 miles out of town and dumping her body however
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it seems like it didn't take long for kenji's sanity to break because by Sunrise he had become extremely paranoid
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after making the call he was detained by seven police officers dispatched from the Midori police station and after
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being questioned for 15 minutes he was taken to the mobile investigations unit before leading officers to the site now
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Kenji was absolutely terrified of capital punishment however under Japanese law he was not allowed to be
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executed if he surrendered himself first and so after his despicable actions Kenji was left with two options try to
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evade the law and risk his life or give up his free life and guarantee survival Kenji chose the latter and in addition
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to this he even confessed that he had the help of two other accomplices and even provided both their names and
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addresses yoshitomo and sakasa were arrested the very same evening and just hours later R's body would be formally
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identified by her mother naturally fam was distraught by the news R was her one
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and only child with a father who had died decades before the entirety of her family had now been lost and Rey's
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absence left a massive hole in her heart she described identifying her daughter's body as an outof body experience and
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despite her daughter's body's chilling condition she hugged her tightly through the pain and anguish colleagues of rier
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were devastated too they had known her for many years Not only was she just a colleague but she was also a friend too
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by midnight the special investigations unit publicly announced R isi's murder they further report reported that three
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men had been arrested and believed that no one else was at risk although only one had openly surrendered to the
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authorities Kenji yoshitomo and sassa all eventually confessed to their crimes they told investigators that they had
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met through the dark web and that the primary motive was greed to settle their unpaid debts furthermore they also
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confessed that they were willing to do anything to achieve this which sadly included murder the details of this
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crime are particularly saddening after being abducted rier was handcuffed in inside the car and driven to a secluded
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area the vehicle used to transport her belonged to Kenji and had been unlawfully obtained through one of his
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former fraud schemes through the dark web her bag was looted which at the time contained 62,000 Yen the equivalent of
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$450 or $380 she was then further pressed to provide her bank card's pin number but
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unknown to all three of them at the time she had given them a fake one shortly after this rier was then suffocated and
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beaten with a hammer approximately 30 times and eventually she heartbreakingly succumbed to her brutal injuries the
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three asants then stopped by a hardware store purchased two shovels headed out into the mountainous Countryside and at
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around 4:30 a.m. dumped her body in msami at around 9:00 a.m. that morning
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they tried to withdraw money from her bank account using the pin that R had provided them 2960 or was it 2946 or 2460 astoundingly
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it seems that remembering four simple digits required far too much intelligence for the these three men as
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all three of them had forgotten what she had said despite already showing incredible levels of stupidity it takes
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a special kind of stupid to come to the next conclusion but since they had failed to make any money this time
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around all three agreed to meet again later that evening to find another woman to abduct Rob and murder however as we
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all know before they could even get there kenji's conscious thankfully got the better of him following the loss of
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her daughter famika made it her mission to punish her three killers just as hard as they had punished her and 10 days of
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R's death she had launched a campaign calling for the death penalty for all three men by the 10th day she' received
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the support of 100,000 people by October was 150,000 and by December was 318,000
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signatures not only that but incredibly even yosha Tomo and kenji's fathers begged the courts for the death penalty
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although single murders ready face the death penalty in Japan this case seemed to drum up a lot of anger in the general
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public and not only that but recent Trends showed that people favored stricter punishments initial Court
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proceedings began roughly one year later in September 2008 and in this first session all three admitted to robbing
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and murdering rier they further admitted that things got out of hand when they tried to live up to their boasting
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online this is because all three men had claimed they'd murdered someone in the past when in fact all three were lying
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to each other defense attorneys argued that
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Kenji tasa and yoshimoto should not be punished with the death penalty because R's death was supposedly accidental they
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also argued that historically speaking all single murder cases usually result in a life sentence and not the death
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penalty now all three defendants disputed who was the primary asent and Mastermind behind the murder Kenji
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insisted that sakasa was to blame and yoshitomo followed these allegations but sakasa blamed yoshitomo claiming that he
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was the first to strike R there were clear differences in attitudes during these discussions although all three men
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seemed unfaced and emotionless over their actions sassa often made fun of R throughout Court proceedings where Kenji
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said that the victim was simply unlucky but on March 18th 2009 Judgment Day
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finally arrived the district court found all three defendants guilty of all charges and as a result sukasa and Josh
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Tomo were sentenced to death for their actions it was ruled that the motives for the crime left no room for leniency
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and that capital punishment was the only option and Kenji was given a life sentence due to his early surrender
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although R's mother and ex partner were both disappointed at kenji's life being spared it was widely recognized that a
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death sentence for yoshitomo and sakasa was exceptionally strict when compared to similar
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cases as expected all three men appealed to have their sentences reduced and while yosh's death sentence would be
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reduced to a life sentence tasa accepted his fate and withdrew his appeal this resulted in both yoso and Kenji being
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spared their lives however for sakata that would not be the same and on June 25th 2015 he was executed via hanging a
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sad side note to the story but unknown to fiko at the time re had actually been saving more than half a monthly salary
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to help buy her mother a new home at the time of her death she'd saved up more than 8 million yen which is the equivalent of $59,000 or £50,000 if it
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wasn't for their forgetfulness her as salance may have even got their hands on all that money but thankfully they were
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too stupid to remember four digits regretfully I see much familiarity between this case and the story of Eve
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Carson both were bright young women with great Prosperity ahead of them and they were both caught up in their day-to-day
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lives when bad luck and merciless tragedy struck they were targeted hunted
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robbed and then murdered and for what exactly a few measly hundred dollars the
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motive behind their deaths is quite bluntly almost entirely incomprehensible an entire life filled with friends
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family Partners love hope friendship and prosperity was ended to temporarily fix
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the financial burden of an irresponsible lowlife individual the Stark level of selfishness is entirely enraging and now
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a mother has lost her one and only child an array of people have lost a good friend and a young woman has lost her
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life to this day fam still gives lectures in various schools and places to talk about her daughter's story she
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provides insights into keeping people safe on the streets and even raises awareness of dangerous online
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Behavior while R's story definitely was tragic
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enough this next one really does push that boundary even further General disclaimer but please forgive the audio
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and the haircut but the story itself is absolutely wild Satoshi umsu was
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responsible for 19 deaths and a further 26 injuries however it is more the
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location of this tragedy that makes it so hard to stomach today's case is in Saga mahara a
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located about 40 km away from Tokyo's Central business district once used as an area for
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extensive training by the Imperial Japanese Army back in the 1930s the city is now better known as an area for
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manufacturing and industrial production with an estimated population of 721 th000 people it's now the third
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most popular city in the Kanagawa prefecture placed after Yokohama and
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Kawasaki and one of the city's residents went by the name of Satoshi uatu Satoshi uatu was born on the 20th
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of January 1990 nearby in Tokyo his father was an elementary school art teacher and his mother was a
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cartoonist at the age of 1 the yatsu family moved from Tokyo to sagam mahara city where they settled into their
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permanent home Satoshi attended a public elementary school before moving on to a
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junior high school in the area at school he was known to be an Entertainer a charmer and someone who made other
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people laugh he was enthusiastic about basketball and although his grades once excellent he
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got by just fine but it was around this time in high school that Shadows of doubt first started to cast Over Satoshi
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and his behavior on several occasions he was caught shoplifting with friends and he
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was also found to be deliberately causing damage to property while drunk his most alarming altercation with
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the law however was in 2007 when he allegedly pushed over and hit a disabled person for getting in his way at High
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School despite his questionable actions Satoshi continued his education into private
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university he entered the faculty of Education to major in primary education aiming to become an elementary school
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teacher just like his father but around this time his parents
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suddenly moved out of the omatsu residence to a condo in Tokyo leaving the house to Satoshi and although their
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motive in moving was never clear it is speculated that many arguments broke out between Satoshi and his parents
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eventually leading to a rift in the family the supposed breaking point to all of this was around satoshi's tattoo
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which covered most of his back for those of you that aren't aware tattoos in Japan are another thing that
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society looks down upon the stigma around tattoos dates back as far as 720 when they were used to Brand criminals
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that have committed serious crimes and during the Edo period in the 1600s through to the late 1800s tattoos
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were also adopted by Outlaws and gangs such as the Yakuza they were seen as symbols of
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courage and loyalty thanks to their pain and permanence and while views on tattoos in
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the modern day climate have relaxed marginally they are still to this day seen as dirty disrespectful to family
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and shameful Satoshi finally graduated from University in the year 2012 and although
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his plans slightly deviated into becoming a full-time tattooist and illegally grown cannabis he failed at
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both around the middle of 2012 he completed formal qualifications towards social welfare aimed at qualifying him
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to work in the psychiatric sector he passed and by the time desember came around he found himself a part-time job
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working at the sukui yuren Care Facility also known as sukui Lil Garden in
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English reportedly he was hired after telling interviewers that he thought people with disabilities were
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cute Satoshi did well in his job and in April 2013 he was promoted to work
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full-time at suku liily Garden eventually being well known as a bright and motivated worker with plenty of room
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for growth but as the months went by satoshi's character began to change in
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2014 and again in 2015 Satoshi was caught hitting facility residents
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consequently he was interviewed by staff several times and vigilance over Satoshi in the
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workplace escalated throughout the year of 2015 but on the 6th of February 2016
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after after another altercation he resigned from working at suu liily Garden leaving himself
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unemployed and while suu Lily Garden was glad to see Satoshi leave it wouldn't be the last time that they'd see
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him we're moving over to Tokyo and the date is the 15th of February
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2016 only 2 weeks since satoshi's resignation Satoshi had actually
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traveled to Tokyo to hand deliver a Written Letter to the political figure tadori Oshima the Speaker of the House
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of Representatives of Japan and this letter was the first big warning sign to satoshi's
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behavior satoshi's Written Letter was a written request appealing for the legalization of ending the lives of
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those with multiple disabilities he actually pleaded for disabled patients to be euthanized for
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the good of the world and warned that he planned to carry out a murderous attack to boost the world economy and prevent
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World War II after signing his name the letter proceeded to detail an offer to
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Target Two facilities housing the disabled and he went on to appeal for certain conditions in exchange for
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committing his act Satoshi actually offered to kill people himself he also added that staff
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would be tied up to keep them from interfering but that they would not be harmed the ACT would be Swift and after
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that he would turn himself in he ended the letter with now is the
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time to carry out a revolution and make a tough decision for the sake of all mankind he then signed it with his name
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underneath the letter was handed to Tokyo Police who then contacted sagam mahara police and only 4 days later on
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febru the 19th Satoshi was arrested questioned and then involuntarily committed to a psychiatric
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hospital satoshi's views of disabled people and the crimes he wanted to commit in order to supposedly boost the
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world econ om was nothing short of profoundly immoral but with them enrolled into a psychiatric hospital
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maybe there was now a possibility to unravel and deconstruct his perspective sukuri ly Garden facility
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was alarmed to hear that their former employee had such fuse and so in an effort for protection 16 cameras were
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installed across the facility immediately after but these cameras would only be
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installed for routine monitoring rather than for surveillance and to so's time in Rehabilitation would be very
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shortlived too because only 2 weeks later on March the 2nd he was released by doctors deemed as no threat to
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society and that assumption would be a grave [Music]
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mistake on the 25th of July 2016 Satoshi traveled to Tokyo by bus to pick up his
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car from the family residence he then collected various knives and afterward he traveled to a
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home improvement store where he purchased a hammer and a binding band Satoshi then traveled to Shinjuku
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where he rented a room and dyed as hair golden before meeting a woman at a barbecue restaurant for
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dinner there he told her about his letter and his plans but tragically she
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didn't expect he was actually being real and ignored it fast forward 4 hours to the morning
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of the 26th of July 2016 at roughly 1:37 a.m. unmonitored cameras
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at the Suki liy Garden Care Facility recorded a black Honda pulling up to a back road the car belonged to Satoshi uratsu
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who emerged from the driver's seat shortly after parking his car he walked to the car's boot before
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pulling out a duffel bag full of knives he then approached a window located at the southeast wing of the facility and
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gained entry by breaking it with a hammer being a former member Satoshi knew the area was well gaining entry
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from the back allowed him to remain almost entirely unnoticed and no one heard him break the window
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either at 2:10 a.m. he made it inside found the closest staff member and tied
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them up and gagged them he took their keys and now with full access to the facility he was able to go wherever he
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wanted to and if his previous letter wasn't obvious enough there was only one
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reason why he was here Satoshi made his way from the south northeast corner of the facility right
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through to its West End going from room to room one by one tragically using his
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knives to murder every disabled person he could find a lot of them were fast asleep in
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their beds and when that wasn't enough he then made his way to the second floor with
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over 3 years of experience at the facility he likely knew the exact process that security officers would
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follow on a usual night and so he was able to strategically avoid both them and the security
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office with over half of the facility's footprint now covered Satoshi fledged the area through a side door located
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next to the main entrance before looping around the main building and back to his car he was seen Again by surveillance
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cameras at 2:50 a.m. only 40 minutes after his invasion he then got back into his car
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and when he was behind the driver's seat posted a picture of himself to Twitter saying May there be World Peace
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beautiful Japan and with his sick fantasy now complete Satoshi fled the
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area only 10 minutes after fleeing armed police stormed suur liily Garden a
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worker had actually spotted a man with blonde hair wielding a blade walking around the facility's
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grounds and when they arrived there they would discover a harrowing scene 29
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ambulances were sent to the facility and all of them would be desperately
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needed Satoshi wouldn't try to avoid being caught either in fact less than 2
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hours after posting to Twitter he handed himself in to his local police station along with his bag full of
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knives and in the morning police would find his car too blood was found on the
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steering wheel with Blood Stained towels and plastic bags found on the passenger's seat a partially eaten piece
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of bread and 1,000 yen bills were scattered all over when police questioned him on the
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letter he said yes that was me before requesting a new identity and plastic surgery after only serving 2 years in
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prison this didn't work and Satoshi Matsu was immediately arrested on the
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spot back at sukui ly Garden the devastation would continue to
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unfold families of the patients rushed to find out if their relatives were dead
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and even those that learned their relatives were alive would have to wait days to find out how bad the relatives
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injuries were or even if they would make it a total of 19 patients at the
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facility were sadly killed most of their bodies discovered in their beds and a
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further 26 patients were found to be injured 13 of them
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severely at the time of the attack Satoshi yatsu was declared as the perpet trator of Japan's worst post-war Mass
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killing now called to be the sagam mahara massacre and later the next day Satoshi
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was transferred from the police station where he handed himself in to a high security prosecution's
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office police tried to use a tinted van to conceal his identity but as he was
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escorted away he smiled at all the cameras around him police would also raid his family
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home too located only a few minutes away from the Care Facility
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there they recovered journals and electronic equipment and rumors around satoshi's letter to the government would
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soon start to spread but neighbors did Express surprise that apparently Satoshi had
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committed these murders he was described for them as friendly outgoing and a good man and although some of them did admit
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that he had changed over the years no one ever expected him to cause any harm
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it was in this moment that a second investigation would begin looking into the actions and vigilance of police and
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psychologists who were aware of satoshi's views and questions started to circulate
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around the 16 cameras that were installed in the facility just weeks before the
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attack although they were on and working therefore recording the entire incident
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no one was actually contracted to operate or view these cameras both police and the facility failed to react
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to the warning signs to add to the frustration briefings for the families would only
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begin an entire 10 days after the attack with information to the health and well-being of the victims being kept in
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the dark and the murders of 19 residents at s garden instantly became international
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news in a country that's commonly perceived with very low crime rates this was a complete shock to
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many but one aspect that contrasted greatly between Japan and other countries is that many countries were
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declaring this to be a hate crime Japan on the other hand and with its stigma towards disabled people failed to report
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it that way in fact not a single Japanese public official ever sought to officially use these words and to add to
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this case's disappointment the victims of the sagam mahara massacre were never officially named either this wasn't out
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of respect but instead was because the majority of the families didn't want the public to know that their loved ones had
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disabilities and on the surface while this move can be seen as a way of protecting their privacy it could also
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be a way of keeping people dis I abilities out of the Public's eye we're moving forward to satoshi's
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prosecution on the 20th of February 2017 7 months after the attack Satoshi was
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officially found mentally competent to stand trial this paved the way for more severe
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charges if found guilty and with Japan accepting the death penalty on severe cases emotions around satoshi's fate
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were high his defense team said that they were planning to argue that he was mentally in competent at the time of the
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crime due to the effects of marijuana and almost 3 years later on
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the 8th of January 20120 Satoshi would face trial he pleaded not guilty to the
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stabbings however over 2,000 people lined up outside the courtroom to try and get one
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of the 26 viewing seats in the public gallery while media broadcasted from
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outside during trial at no point did Satoshi show any remorse for his actions
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to the victims he did however admit that he was sorry to the families before proceeding to
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bite a part of his own finger off as an act of apology the stunt failed to mean anything though as he continued to
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insist that there was no point in disabled people living after an agonizing long trial the
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verdict was finally made Satoshi was formally found guilty with 19 counts of murder 2 24 counts of
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attempted murder 2 counts of illegal confinement causing injury three counts of illegal confinement one count of
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unlawful entry and one count of violating the swords and Firearms control law the prosecution then announced that
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they were seeking the death penalty calling his Rampage inhumane that left no room for
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leniency and on the 16th of March 2020 Satoshi was officially given his sentence to death by the ukama district
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court to the date of this video being recorded sat OSU Matsu is still alive and in prison he awaits to be executed
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from a high security prison cell when that day will come however nobody quite knows with the effects of the pandemic
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delaying the process several times and while I wish I could go into remembrance for the 19 victims of suur Lily Garden
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sadly I can't because they have no names and no faces take this as a personal
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feeling but denying their names and faces is like denying them their Humanity following other tragic stories
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from from around the world we remember the victims what they were like and what to find them and through that their
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remembrance puts a heavy emptiness to a place that was taken by a killer brushing who the victims are away
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strips them of their worth and in turn suppresses the attention that's given towards a
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case there were no charities on news articles no hashtags on Twitter No
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campaigns on GoFundMe and the story itself quietened down all too quick
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quickly and while the will of the victim's family members should be respected the stigma and shame around
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disabled people in Japan should not be ignored it's a bias that tragically
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played a heavy part to this case following satoshi's crime both
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Japan and the rest of the world have become more aware of their perceptions towards people with disabilities but
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whether Japan will learn from this and from its disturbing past is still yet to be seen
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with the par Olympics Games currently set to be performed in Tokyo later this year opportunities to normalize and
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improve on perceptions over disabilities are a plenty so let's see where they go from
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here and back in sagam mahara families and friends still pay tribute to the
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victims they lay flowers once a month outside the facility which was demolished and rebuilt in
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2016 and although some of the victims names and faces have finally been revealed most are still kept in the
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dark hopefully one day this type of stigma and discrimination against disabled people will finally cease to
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exist and maybe even the case of Satoshi Matsu will become a vital lesson that was learned along the
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way while most of Japan's dark stories are quite understandably written by Japanese residents our next one comes
Rina Shimabukuro
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from the deplorable actions of an American Marine in fact this case caused quite the stir between American and
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Japanese authorities so without any further Ado Let's Travel south of Japan's main land to the island of
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okanawa now I've always said that Japan as a country is extremely diverse when it comes to climate and perhaps not many
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of you know this but northern Japan actually has the highest snowfall per year when compared to any other country
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today's video looks at the Stark opposite of this as okanawa is Japan's version of Tropical Paradise it's a
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popular destination for Japanese natives looking to catch some sun waves and warmth and San Andy beaches and a
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laid-back atmosphere to the island is what makes akawa special okanawa is classed as its own prefecture but has a
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relatively small population it's also a destination that has a heavy Western influence from its Beach culture to its
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local Delicacies and strangely spam is a very common food to be found in aonan Cuisine even in sushi there's great
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reason for Western influence in okanawa as 25% of the island is actually covered by military bases from the United States
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it's no secret that the local people of akawa are une easyy with this Arrangement as 60% of their small 460
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met island is consumed by its military presence this has been a point of contention between the US and Japan
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since World War II but otherwise akawa is a laid-back island with a vibrant culture and wonderful people and it's
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here on this island in Ura City that we find 20-year-old Rea shuko Reena lived
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in a small two-bedroom apartment she was a hardworking employee in a corporate office which at her age was rather
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admirable for the most part she was independent and she was a very self-driven young woman she was admired
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in the workplace and by those around her for a positive yet sensible attitude towards life Reena grew up as an only
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child mostly keeping to herself but liked by those around her for a polite personality she was also known to break
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out some impressive dancing and singing skills when around those she was most comfortable with while growing up Reena
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always desired to have siblings to share her passions with and so as she became older one of reena's main Ambitions was
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to have children telling her friends that she was aiming to have around six of them and this opportunity may have
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come sooner than expected as in 2015 Reena began a relationship with a local akan man due to the nature of Japanese
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media and identity protection we don't know the name of this man so for the sake of this story we will call him
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Hinata what we do know about Tata is he was an attentive and respectful partner and he treated Reena well we know this
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as reena's new boyfriend quickly gained her parents approval something which often makes or breaks a relationship in
1:00:25
Japan things were going so well between the two that eventually they moved in together getting an apartment in Irma
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City and settling into their everyday lives they slipped into a routine Reena and Tata would work on the weekdays to
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cherish their moments together on the weekends in the following months the couple described their relationship as
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happy and content and this routine would carry them for several months more until all of a sudden tragedy would Blindside
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their peace in April of
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2016 on a mild spring evening Reena decided to head out for a walk it had
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been a long day sitting in the office and so she figured she would go out to stretch her legs at around 8:00 p.m.
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that evening just before dusk she slipped into her red sneakers and a black Parker before shutting the door behind her Reena kept in regular contact
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with her boyfriend through the messaging app line which is the most popular way to talk by text in Japan much akin to
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Whatsapp in the west she messaged her boyfriend to say that she was going out for a walk and would be back late onun
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in the evening which was nothing out of the ordin or ar taking her usual route along the edge of a canal she took in
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the evening's calming sights Reflections in the water displaying illuminations of apartment buildings commercial stores
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restaurants and even a mega donkey oat on the other side of this canal was an industrial sector full of factories
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warehouses and shipping companies all of which were busily working their way into the night Reena had walked here many
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times after work she felt safe here and rightfully so and this very night Hinata
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was waiting back at home for her to return but as the hours passed by and the clock hit midnight the incessant
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feeling of worry began to haunt the young man's mind Reena did like her own space so at 2: a.m. he sent her a single
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text message to say he was signing off for the night which after a few minutes was marked as red surely this meant she
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was okay maybe she had bumped into a friend and wanted some time to catch up after all in Japan it's very common for
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couples to keep their feelings to themselves and so Hinata went to bed expecting to see or hear from reeno in
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the morning maybe then they could catch up and talk about where she had been over the evening but as the morning arrived there
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was still no sign of Reena anywhere she hadn't returned home or replied to his message despite this message being
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marked as red this didn't sit right with Hinata and so on the morning of April
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the 29th he contacted local police to report his girlfriend Rea shimabukuro as
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missing police were rather quick to arrive at the residence and while there they began their investigations asking
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reena's boyfriend as much much information as they could in parallel to this reena's group of friends immediately took to social media asking
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around for their missing friend and soon enough speculation started to spread like wildfire around the tight-knit
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community As Time clamored by multiple theories arose some believed it was a random abduction some believed the
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boyfriend had something to do with it While others speculated cult activity and as all this heresy plagued reena's
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disappearance the police released multiple images to the public in hopes that someone would come forward with a lead however as these first few days
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passed by without any notion or clue concern and Dread began to fill the hearts and minds of reena's family
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friends and boyfriend during public campaigning police were still working hard behind the scenes eventually they
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discovered where reena's cell phone had last pinged in the moment she read her boyfriend's final text message for the night which just so happened to be in
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the early morning hours of 2: a.m. it turns out that a cell phone had pinged one final time while inside the
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industrial estate located next to the canal this was a critical piece of information for officers
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as now they could question those working around the site and start to scour the area for any clues or evidence it was
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through these efforts that they spotted something peculiar on a surveillance camera which happened to be owned by one of the industrial companies on the very
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same night Reena disappeared a red SUV seemed to be acting rather strangely and upon further investigation they
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discovered that the SUV belonged to a US military serviceman stationed in okwa and more specifically at the cadina
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airbase the car was owned by man named Kenneth Shinzo and he was a 32-year-old US Marine stationed on the island back
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at home Kenneth was born and raised in New York by a single mother Shirley Gadson and although Shirley did her best
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to raise him she was ultimately equipped to care for the young boy Kenneth was a problem child while growing up he was
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disruptive at school had regular temper tantrums and often fought against his mother in fact this Behavior got so bad
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that Charley ended up taking Kenneth to therapy paperwork from the Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center described
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shley as cognitively limited and declared that the two had a tangled and unmeshed relationship which made his treatment extremely difficult ultimately
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Kenneth was put into foster care in 1997 at the young age of 11 and from here he went through a total of five Foster
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families due to his behavior at the age of 18 Kenneth moved into his own place near his mother's home until eventually
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he joined the Marines he served in the Marines for seven begrudging years before taking a back seat in 2014 by
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accepting support work for the Marines in Japan instead of moving back to the US yes and the reason for this was very
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understandable meeting and falling in love with a Japanese woman the two eventually married and Kenneth had even
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taken her last name to distance himself from his own mother the two would also have a newborn son in March of
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2016 and although his wife had urged him to tell his mother this never actually occurred which brings us to May of 2016
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only 2 months since the birth of his own son this was when Kenneth's car was spotted on cameras around the same area
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and time where Reena disappeared so so why was he here did he have anything to do with it and what was the reasoning
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for a suspicious Behavior Kenneth immediately peaked their curiosity but when he came in for
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questioning on May the 16th he denied any involvement and he answered all questions to an acceptable standard
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however they did seize Kenneth's car and an efforts to conduct their own Fric analysis but the results for this would take several days to come back and so
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with that said Kenneth was released from police custody as there was no evidence to suggest he was involved in reena's
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disappearance you'd expect that under normal circumstances he would return home to his family but that is not what Kenneth
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had in mind instead he made his way to a local drugstore purchased an extortionate amount of sleeping pills
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and purchased a 2 L bottle of whiskey and you can probably guess what his plans were the next morning Kenneth
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attempted to take his own life but after ultimately failing he was admitted to his local hospital unfortunately it gets
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worse as the very next day after being released he was once again rushed to the hospital after Downing two more bottles
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of whiskey in one evening this behavior is reactionary to a situation whether it was from guilt or fear Kenneth wanted
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out of whatever scenario he was slowly falling into and this was by any means necessary just one day after Kenneth's
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second overdose on alcohol results from the tests conducted on his vehicle had finally come back DNA found inside his
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car had been compared to DNA found in reena's home and unfortunate for him the tests were conclusive a match was found
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this at least confirms to investigators is that Runa shimabukuro had at some point been inside Kenneth's vehicle and
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most likely on the very night she had disappeared this undeniable proof seemed to overburden him because as soon as
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interrogations began Kenneth finally buckled he admitted his part in reena's disappearance and even worse he told
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officers where they could find her leading investigators to a small and
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sad wooded area in onor Village officers came to a black suitcase like a meaningless object it had been thrown
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off the of a road discarded into the Woodland underbrush and inside lay the decaying body of a young woman being
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here for more than 20 days in the Searing okona and heat she was unrecognizable and partially
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skeletonized DNA testing later confirmed her identity and tragically it was the
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body of rearo the community at large were devastated as we can all imagine they
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had hoped to find Reena alive and well but sadly these hopes were now crushed
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with the discovery of reena's body Kenneth felt no reason to withhold information from authorities for any longer and instead he gave his version
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of the events which unfolded on the 28th of April 2016 it was on this evening when Kenneth
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was driving around UTA that he spotted a small 5ft frame walking alone in the Dusky hours you see Kenneth claims that
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he'd always fantasized about dark things even as early as childhood rather disgustingly he fantasized about forcing
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himself onto women murdering them and even taking his own life and to take things one step further he also
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fantasized about killing his mother and even causing Mass tragedy in fact his reasoning for joining the military was
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out of the expectation that he could kill other people abducting and restraining women before carrying out
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his desires was a long-running fantasy of his and on the night that he saw Reena the situation was perfect she was
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small alone in a quiet area and had the means of kidnap at his disposal almost
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as if it was planned or in Kenneth's arm [Music] fate Kenneth pulled up on the nearby
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Road and pursued the woman on foot before coming up behind her and striking her over the head with a metal rod
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Kenneth grabbed her dragged her to a nearby area and then assaulted her but Reena was not fully unconscious she
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began to resist Kenneth fight back and even call for help this was when Kenneth pulled his arm back and began to
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physically fight the defenseless woman and after pulling out his knife he stabbed her multiple times until
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eventually Reena was no more Kenneth retreated to his car pulled out a black suitcase loaded his victim
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inside the suitcase placed it into the back of his SUV and drove off into the night and after driving 20 km or 12 mil
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from aota Village he stopped on the side of a quiet Road throwing the suitcase as far as he could into the underbrush this
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is where Reena would stay for 22 long days acting as if nothing had happened
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Kenneth then retreated back to his car and drove back home to his wife and newly born son in the following days
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Kenneth was waiting for expectation for police to come knocking at his door but as the days and then weeks passed his
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confidence grew he resumed his normal life starting to believe that he may have gotten away with his crime however
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as we all know this was not the case and soon after he was to face the full force of the
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law reena's murder brought a lot of attention towards US military presence on the island and as the years go by
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there's a notably growing amount of crimes that have been committed by us Personnel this contention began in 1995
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when three US Marines kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl and since then okanawa has debated
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hosting the US military the murder of Rea shuko wasn't only a fresh reminder to this notion it was a very strong one
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at that and Kenneth's actions actually brought thousands of residents out to the streets and
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[Music] protest
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this is not how we want the country to be we are your friends your
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neighbors but we want Bas to be gone
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before court Kenneth insisted he did not intend to kill Reena and apparently his only aim was assault throughout his
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trial Kenneth was reserved quiet and often staring into space both judge and jury did not buy a story and instead
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they determined that all of it was premeditated it was noted that that Kenneth had bought his own murder kit out with him late at night including a
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Batton an empty suitcase and a knife and if his aim was only to assault then why were these items in his car his actions
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on this night did not reflect those of someone who did not have intention to kill while being charged with murder
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sexual assaults and illegal disposal of a body Kenneth would plead guilty to sexual assaults resulting in death and
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abandoning a body but denied his charge of murder and with reena's parents calling for the death penalty Kenneth
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had every reason to worry for fortunate for him but this sentence would never come his way and instead judge tohair
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shabata would give him life in prison stating there was no room for leniency in such a violent and unnecessary crime
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nobody can deny that Kenneth's actions that night were selfish and Despicable and his evil actions cannot be defended
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perhaps his resentment towards women can be spurred from an internal hate towards his mother then again his wife never
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complained of any ill Behavior towards her and neighbors always said that the couple were kind and happy so what made
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Reena from any other woman in his life and what led him to choose her on that lonely fateful night unfortunately we
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will never quite know Reena was a young woman who had just entered a true adulthood she was planning her future
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her marriage and her family she was kind patient and loving towards those around her and especially towards her boyfriend
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who misses her dearly Reena was positive sensible polite and nurturing
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characteristics which you could argue are the total opposite to a killer and tragically her dreams were Stripped Away
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from Her by a disturbed stranger she wasn't given a chance all by the actions of one
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individual our next case takes us to Kawasaki and is the perfect example of the butterfly effect for all of the
Ryuichi Iwasaki
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wrong reasons now I think we're all aware that actions can cause reactions and while some of them may be
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intentional the reality is that most are actually without any intent whatsoever so when one man decided to go on a
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murderous spree he was surprised to learn that his actions caused another murder only a few days later Japan tends
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to be well associated with futuristic and modern inventions such as robots bullet trains video games and of course
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anime and manga and in fact if you walk around the streets of Tokyo you'd be hard done by not to spot some kind of
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anime your manga character or even just a cute little mascot within your view from the train networks hosting them all
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over their carriages to convenience stores and even airports having their own mascots and media sponsors the
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nation of Japan is engrossed in fiction characters and their own little worlds anime and manga in particular have made
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the mark across the world all over gripping the interests of people both young and old however and this tends to
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be one of my most favorite sayings but everything in moderation right people can sometimes get a little too engrossed
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in fiction some even neglecting their real lives in favor of the imaginary world and those that do this can
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simultaneously try to escape existence in society of course you have probably guessed what I'm talking about here and
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that is the world of hikori but what are hikori exactly and why is being one seen
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as such a Negative label in Japanese Society simply put Hikari categorized as
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so-called shuttin people who rarely leave the house and despise interacting with others in the western world you
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could probably call them Hermits extreme introverts or agoraphobe fear of going outside and
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being in public spaces hikori can also be seen as a neat that's n which stands
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for not an education employment or training so basically that's someone who doesn't contribute to society in any
1:15:30
distinct or useful way these social shut-ins are often looked at negatively by wider Society especially in a country
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like Japan where there is a strong sense of Honor that comes from working and supporting yourself your family and The
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Wider economy and amongst these recluses of society in the city of Kawasaki just
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south of Tokyo we find 51-year-old riichi iwasaki riii was born in December
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1967 and despite his parents being together at the time of his birth this wouldn't last for long they divorced
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when he was only 4 years old and as a result he went to go and live solely with his father rarely seeing his mother
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however this situation would not be stable either and rii would eventually move in with his extended family in a
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crowded house consisting of his grandparents Aunt uncle and cousins during his childhood he was enrolled in
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katas elementary school before graduating to Junior High and eventually progressed to a vocational training
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school where he studied engineering riii led a relatively normal life though he did struggle to maintain friendships
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during his school years he was otherwise stressfree and following his graduation he worked in several basic jobs mainly
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factory work and as a night guard for a local store but throughout the years and while his cousins moved out and got on
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with their own lives RT he continued to live in the family home his grandparents sadly passed away in 1990 thus leaving
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him with just his aunt and his uncle as ruichi moved into his 40s he found himself spending more and more time at
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home alone which as you can imagine May sometimes result in depression but the lack of comfort didn't end their sadly
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he had also recently lost his job and with no rent or mortgage to pay he made no effort to find Reemployment although
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RT's aunt and uncle were often out of the house doing their own things such as working their own Hobbies they still did
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their best to look after him I mean they practically babysat him his meals were cooked his clothes were washed and the
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bills were always paid however despite this he always did his best to avoid going outside as the years passed by so
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did their birthdays the couple were slowly growing old and with all of the love and support they gave their nephew
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they hoped that one day he would return the favor however as they would eventually find out riii was becoming
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very selfish in his 40s and by the year 2010 he'd abandoned all efforts of becoming a functioning member of society
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instead he spent every waking moment in his own room playing video games and watching manga while trying to avoid any
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contact to the outside world and sadly this included his own family despite
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their nephew's presence the Aging couple was so desperate for care that they eventually asked the local welfare
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center for Home Care visits however due to rchy living at the property they were instead advised to speak to him for help
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soon after this they asked him to do his own housework and in the month of January 2019 they left a note outside of
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his bedroom door the note explaining their dilemma and begging him for his help however ruii didn't take the
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message very well instead he confronted them saying I do my own meals laundry and other things myself what do you mean
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I'm withdrawn the now 51-year-old riii had to become entirely comfortable in his unemployed and secluded life and
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having been in this situation for decades now he had gained a strong sense of entitlement to his easy lifestyle
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neighbors would also complain about his behavior one notable instance occurred in the summer of 2018 when the
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neighbor's tree branch was slightly hanging over the adjoining fence after realizing this riichi furiously knocked
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on their door insulting them and commenting an hourong argument by now it was obvious that he had become semi-
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feral and furious with the world he despised his uncle and Aunt for making him feel useless even though deep down
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he knew that he actually was the man no longer fit in with Society however very
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little did anyone know that this sentiment would manifest itself in one of the most terrible of
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ways May the 28th 2019 at roughly 7:00 a.m. that morning riii did something
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entirely out of the ordinary he got up early and left the house for the first time in several weeks stranger still he
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wished his neighbors a good day on the way out meanwhile a short train rideway things were typical for a morning at
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noborito station commuters were busily making their way to work while local children were heading off to school it
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is not unusual for even young children to travel to school alone alongside Norway and Switzerland it has one of the
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lowest crime rates per capita and I know what some of you are going to say yes that's at least what they record at 7:44
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a.m. on this day a crowd of people mainly children were waiting for their shuttle buses to arrive one of which was
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a bus to K's Elementary School the very same school that rii had studied many years previously speaking of riii it was
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in this moment that he arrived however he was not there to get in line for a bus brandishing a knife from his jacket
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rii began his attack at the back of the waiting line and after attack in a male adult he ran towards the crowd of
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children and parents he proceeded by lacerating a mother before cruy turning the knife on the youngest of the bunch
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and as a bus unexpectedly pulled up to the commotion its driver looked on in shock and horror unable to comprehend
1:20:39
what he was witnessing but ri's spree ended almost as soon as it began because as the crowd frantically dispersed riii
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walked 10 m before then turning the knife on himself an action that ended in him taking his own life just a mere 10
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seconds later the the whole ordeal was over and riii collapsed to the floor within half a minute RT had caused
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a severe amount of physical damage to a total of 19 people this included two adults and 17 children by the time
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Emergency Services arrived two of those had sadly passed away this including a 39-year-old man and a sixth grade
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student due to the large number of victims a total of 11 ambulances were called to the scene where four people
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were considered to be in critical condition this including riii now thankfully all three of those innocent
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victims would recover from their injuries whereas riii himself would pass away from his own self-inflicted stab
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wounds after searching around the crime scene officers found four knives on his body this including two fishing knives
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and two knives in his backpack one of which being more than 25 cm long a second backpack containing a Sashimi
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knife was found at a local convenience store therefore indicating that duii plan to return and cause further
1:21:52
bloodsheds it was further learned that most of these knives were purchased several months prior therefore
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suggesting that he'd planned these attacks for quite some time however despite all of the evidence available we
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will likely never know the real motive behind ri's actions we can only assume that the man was so depressed and
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helpless that he came to the conclusion that he no longer wanted to exist and with so much angst and hate towards the
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world he planned to depart it with the most inflicted Devastation possible it is often noted that people commit these
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Mass public atrocities ities do not intend to come out of it alive Japan has unfortunately seen a number of these
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mass killings in recent years some of you will remember that I've covered a few already including the Kyoto anime
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Massacre these people feel that they have nothing left to lose yet all the same Harbor such a high degree of hate
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towards the world that they feel the need to punish all of those around them take Elliot Roger for example the young
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man knew that he wanted to end his own life he never questioned his depression or his own faults instead he blamed the
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so-called stupidity of women and trat boys and in the end his Target was none other than a sorority house similarly
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Eliot was a recluse set against the world isolated from society isolation can simulate a severely negative toll on
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one's mental health and it's obvious that this sort of problem extends past American borders and into other
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societies such as Japan the post-incident response to this case is extremely telling of that hikikomori are
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so prevalent in Japan that they even have their own website communities and events and After ri's Crime the head of
1:23:28
hikamaru ux conference released a statement to say that this crime should not be linked to the lifestyle and that
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they should not all be thought of as potential criminals however this would not stop the Japanese media from
1:23:39
sensationalizing the situation as such so much so that those living with current shut-ins began to feel fear that
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their reclusive friends and loved ones would be the next to commit such heinous crimes in the days and weeks after his
1:23:53
actions the whole country was was in shock and the face of Ru Chi wasaki spread quickly throughout the media
1:23:58
alongside the newly tainted reputation of those within the hikori community and one person to hear the news was
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76-year-old hiaki kumazawa who just so happened to be the former Vice Minister for agriculture forestry and Fisheries
1:24:12
the details about the news reminded him of his own son who was 44-year-old iiro unfortunately he had recently moved back
1:24:19
in with his parents due to his repeated failure in finding a job while growing up icho was considered to be gifted in
1:24:26
elementary school he was placed in private education by his resoundingly successful father but after moving into
1:24:32
junior high his grades would suddenly begin to disappoint most notably he
1:24:37
didn't quite meet his mother's expectations who unfortunately was particularly strict with her son
1:24:43
throughout his childhood if he didn't achieve the grades that she desired she would take away his toys and belongings
1:24:49
even sometimes destroying them right in front of his eyes now this animosity at home was reflected in nro's behavior in
1:24:56
school according to previous classmates he was that obsessive weird kid who always spoke to himself apparently he
1:25:03
was very much the type of person to hyper fix8 on things and was very obsessed with video games and Anime
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often losing himself in those fictional worlds rather than pay attention in class he would instead draw the
1:25:14
characters he was obsessing over and back at home he would lock himself in his room and play video games all night
1:25:20
this continued into his adulthood when he then grew a Strong Addiction into the video game Dragon Quest 10 it became
1:25:26
obvious by now that this was Rao's preferred method of communication connecting with other people through a
1:25:32
keyboard and mouse rather than through real life this sort of behavior caused significant animosity among the family
1:25:39
but although iero's mother could easily take control of a son as a child he was now getting older and therefore stronger
1:25:45
in both physical strength and strength of mind and after a second year of Junior High e Cho began to intimidate
1:25:52
and sometimes even hit her when she upset him which as you can imagine caused much grief within the family
1:25:58
unknown to them at the time but I churu was actually displaying all the telltale signs of autism however developmental
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disorders are a somewhat controversial Topic in Japan and he would only be diagnosed several decades too late this
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delayed diagnosis also explained his social issues and his tendency to hyperfixate on specific things these
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Tendencies would also transition into his adult life IU didn't want to follow the path of his father no M how much his
1:26:24
mother tried to push him towards it instead IO followed his heart and passion and wanted to get a job in the
1:26:30
anime and manga industry his parents would continue to push him to go to a standard college but after failing his
1:26:36
entrance exams he instead enrolled at Yogi animation Academy graduating with a
1:26:41
degree in computer Graphics a few years later he was thrust into the world of working where he would sadly ultimately
1:26:47
fail again unable to secure a new job his father used his connections to find work at a hospital and although this
1:26:54
would allow him to move out of the family home the apartment he ended up living in was still owned by his mother
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so if it's not abundantly clear by now airo unfortunately did not have the mental means to support himself and in
1:27:07
his adult life he became increasingly reclusive as the years passed by he would continue to sit indoors watch
1:27:13
anime play video games and spend way too much time online in fact found on his Twitter account he even boasted that he
1:27:20
logged into Dragon Quest online every day since it was released which by that time was almost 7 years ago as a result
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of his reclusive behavior and mental challenges he eventually lost his job of
1:27:33
course in Japan's Society bringing shame and disappointment to his family without a job rro could no longer afford to live
1:27:39
alone and so in May of 2019 and at the age of 44 he moved back in with his
1:27:44
parents his behavior plummeted almost instantly and it's reported that he became depressed was embarrassed with
1:27:51
his life and even lashed out at his family and naturally both his mother and his father were rather nervous about his
1:27:57
violent outbursts add disappointment to the mix and it's quite obvious why they didn't really appreciate his
1:28:05
company hikam Mori had a bad enough reputation by now and unfortunately airu
1:28:11
was beginning to fit that label perfectly and then only one week after moving back in with his parents the
1:28:17
Kawasaki stabbings occurred talk of hamori flooded Japan's headlines and one of those to hear of the news of of
1:28:24
course was IU's father hiaki kumazawa it was at that moment that hiaki made a
1:28:29
terribly flawed connection the old man was beginning to see his son in ruii iaki in his eyes someone just like his
1:28:36
own boy had just committed terrible atrocities all supposedly due to his anger and a lack of social interaction
1:28:44
both rii and yido they were both hikami and both capable of violence airu
1:28:50
himself had proven that he was capable of causing harm to other people and haki's worry and fear for his own safety
1:28:57
would come to a peak on June the 1st 2019 it was another average day in the kazawa household haki's wife was out
1:29:04
working while ichu was in his room playing Dragon Quest online meanwhile adjacent to their home the local school
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was busy hosting an Athletics event with cheering heard throughout the entire neighborhood the cheering seemed to
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bother airo however and with his growing irritation his anger once again manifested itself he began to shout at
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his father starting yet another argument between the two and during this argument aeru told his father that he wanted to
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kill him as you can imagine this was a huge red flag for hiaki as just 3 days prior 19 people had been severely
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injured by riii iaki and now here was his son threatening him with his own life with the fearful imagery still
1:29:44
branded fresh into his mind hideaki made a snap decision during his son's Outburst the old man was going to make
1:29:51
sure that his son would never become a mass murderer like PR witchy and with IU's anger still erupting hiaki made his
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way to the kitchen grabbed a knife and then began to savagely attack his own son tragically stabbing him repeatedly
1:30:04
in the neck and chest it wasn't until 30 stab wounds later that hideaki finally
1:30:09
seized his attack walking away and leaving his son to bleed to death on the kitchen floor it seemed that hideaki
1:30:15
wanted to take accountability for his brutal actions because at 3:30 p.m. that same afternoon he dialed the number for
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the Japanese Emergency Services to report the murder of his son by his own hand paramedics rushed the family home
1:30:28
but sadly by the time they arrived it was all too late he had bled out long before he could receive help and was
1:30:35
therefore pronounced dead at the scene moving to the legal proceedings of this case but hiaki would never take any
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accountability for his actions instead he would even try to justify them by saying that his son had attacked him
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during an argument to make things worse he even claimed it was for the greater good as he didn't want his son to come
1:30:54
the next murder camori but by the time his second trial came around hideaki seemed to have a change of heart because
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now he only claimed self-defense this didn't hold water in court however as
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there was no evidence or proof to suggest that hideaki had struggled or even been physically hurt during the
1:31:11
attack more damning though was the evidence of premeditation to haki's Onslaught on his own son search
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histories found on his computer showed that he had been heavily researching the legal repercussions of killing someone
1:31:23
in Japan and also how best to get these charges and sentences deferred or minimized to really cement his guilt a
1:31:30
letter was found addressed from hideaki to his wife stating that his son was beyond all help and the world would be a
1:31:36
better place if he were to Simply disappear faced with the overwhelming evidence hideaki stressed that despite
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the premeditation he was extremely remorseful for what he had done to his son and that he felt that at the time he
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had no other choice ultimately after pleading not guilty in February of 2020 W to the murder of his son hiaki kazawa
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was found guilty and sentenced to Amiga 6 years in prison now here on coffee house crime we've seen some ridiculously
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short sentences before but 6 years for murdering your own son it honestly leaves me feeling pretty dumbfounded
1:32:10
especially considering the sheer violence showed during the attack in his mind hideaki was convinced with such
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complete certainty that his son was both capable and able to commit the same level of atrocities as ryuichi so much
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so that it gave him every bit of internal validation and justification to stab him to death in his own home this
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was all ultimately based on the flimsy connection of his son being a reclusive shut in like ruichi was despite other
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similarities being noticeably absent there is also the possibility that hideaki believed he was enacting a noble
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Deed by ridding the world and his family of his problematic son removing his burdensome existence from their lives
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this was never stated by hideaki of course and he he likely pared what his lawyers instructed him to say in court
1:32:57
to give him the best chance of a short sentence given how successful and Senior his position was within the government
1:33:03
there is a distinct possibility that hideaki felt a sense of Shame at icher is perceived lack of any notable success
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but for a sentence that short in my eyes nothing can really justify it especially not for the murder of your own son in
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the aftermath of the trial the media didn't take long to link the two cases together and ran with a new Hot Topic of
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cluses and their mental States becoming increasingly unstable as they aged and given that hikori numbers are only
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Rising as time goes on the media claims that soon they will become a genuine danger to society shockingly a vast
1:33:37
number of people interviewed after the trial of hideaki kumazawa wholeheartedly supported his actions indicating just
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how despised and shunn hiur are in Japanese Society by the way this runs in tandem with Japan's very awful views of
1:33:50
disabled people however there was a small Ray of Hope for following these two cases because after they became
1:33:57
widely publicized there was a substantial increase in people seeking help for themselves or for their loved
1:34:02
ones to overcome chronic reclusion and isolation the minister for health in Japan also released a statement
1:34:08
reassuring the population that these events should not be linked inherently with hikori the main point they made is
1:34:13
that every individual is different and experiencing different life circumstances now this sentiment is
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particularly true although a small number of folks are shuttin and choose to sit in in their own world of hate
1:34:25
most people simply prefer their own space in privacy there can be a lot of comfort in being surrounded by your own
1:34:30
safe space and if a person finds this comfortable they should be allowed to live like this if they choose to aeru
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may have not been happy with his life but it was pretty obvious that his mental health was under the influence of
1:34:42
far more than just being a reclusive individual and despite being reclusive to the physical world his virtual
1:34:48
friends in the Dragon Quest online community made the effort of holding a virtual funeral for him on his final
1:34:54
Twitter post comments can be seen split from both sides some agreed fully with haki's actions saying that he was fully
1:35:01
in the right to have killed his son and being hikori was justification enough for his father's snap but on the other
1:35:07
side of things several commentators sent prayers and wishes to AO offering their condolences and even hoping that in the
1:35:14
next life he would be allowed to be a part of the fictional world that he loved and adored so much on May the 28th
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2019 rit's actions initially caused the death of two innocent individuals but
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when you look at the case of iiro it could be argued that ruii actually had three innocent victims it may very well
1:35:33
be that had the events of may not taken place hideaki may never have felt the need to reach for the knife we will
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likely never fully understand the reasoning and thought process behind his attack on his son but no matter how you
1:35:46
look at it nothing can ever justify such a senselessly brutal act given his ASD
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diagnosis airo desperately needed the support early in his life to give him the maximum chance of success however in
1:35:59
lie of this he found his comfort and Solace with physical isolation fulfilling his hyper fixations in the
1:36:05
virtual worlds of video games and Anime heart-wrenchingly given the type of life that he led there aren't a vast number
1:36:12
of people around who feel the impact of the loss of a chiro but given his online presence and the love shown towards him
1:36:18
after his death on Twitter there are at least some who will miss him and will remember him fondly
Yuka Takaoka
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so although our next story is more Punchy it comes with another terrible haircut and that's the Strange Case of
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Yuka takaoka after believing that a so-called boyfriend was cheating on her she decided to turn against him in
1:36:37
February of 2019 speaking of actions and reactions hers were not the gentlest and
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the slightest either way from this point forward she would be known as the real life
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yander our short story starts in Tokyo Japan it was October 2018 and
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21-year-old yukitoki resided in Shinjuku City Shinjuku is a special district in
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Tokyo known for its buzzing clubs karaoke rooms and upscale restaurants all of them shrouded by skyscrapers Yuka
1:37:10
was living an alternate life or at least by Western standards she dropped out of University at the age of 19 to become
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the manager of a hostess club in Shinjuku Hostess clubs are popular in the nightlife industry of East Asian
1:37:24
countries typically hiring female employees to serve drinks and provide thoughtful conversation to male
1:37:30
customers and Uka was also a fan of anime a style of Japanese animation
1:37:35
typically aimed for both adults and children she was so much of a fan in fact that she would often post pictures
1:37:41
of herself dressing up and cosplaying as some of her favorite characters on her Twitter and Instagram Pages still up to
1:37:47
the state she was a quietly shy individual the type of person who initially wouldn't say much but grew
1:37:54
confidence the more she knew you generally laidback and sweet not the type you'd expect any problems
1:38:03
from back to anime one of her favorite types of cosplays was the yandere characters a specific type of
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Personality yandere are generally kind nurturing and lovable women ones of which that eventually turn violent and
1:38:17
possessive over a love interest can you see where this is going in October that
1:38:22
year while still working at her Hostess bar she met a 20-year-old man named Phoenix Luna he was also a host at a
1:38:29
nearby host bar called Fusion nightclub host bars are the same as hostess bars just hiring male employees for female
1:38:36
customers and Fenix Luna was in a game of his own he was very popular amongst
1:38:41
the hosts in Shinjuku and often was in the bars leaderboards a lot of his female patrons often returning for his
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bartending Services now just to point out this is all safe for work host bars
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and and hostess bars are strictly PG at least officially other than having
1:38:58
things in common Yuka and Phoenix were in the same industry they understood each other well from a professional
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point of view and with their late night work schedules matching it meant that they had a lot of time out of working
1:39:10
hours to connect as friends it was due to these reasons over the following weeks and months that the two grew
1:39:15
closer to each other and eventually started dating the relationship wasn't all fine and dandy though although the
1:39:22
matching hours gave more time to see each other it also created some tension between the two with UK and Phoenix both
1:39:28
working in the same industry one designed to generate money through flirting it posed and be a risk for the
1:39:35
green devil jealousy and oh boy did that work for Yuka over the following months
1:39:41
she grew more and more possessive over him often monitoring his whereabouts and even checking on his phone when he
1:39:47
wasn't looking she grew so ever increasingly jealous over Phoenix that eventually she she outright bought his
1:39:54
services from the bar paying over $9,000 a month just so he wouldn't see any
1:39:59
other women a little bit strange don't you think fast forward and it is now may
1:40:04
the 23rd 2019 a few months after the two had started dating things were going pretty
1:40:11
well for the two and despite a few tensions here and there the two were happy Yuka was still managing the
1:40:16
hostess bar and business was solid she'd taken a couple days off of work to sort some things out in the apartment she'd
1:40:23
asked Phoenix to drop by her house to help with some DIY in which he agreed he'd arrived at her home much later than
1:40:30
expected though it was a very long shift at the bar that night and when he got in he was exhausted he asked Yuka if he
1:40:37
could run himself a bath to relax in which she agreed one he got into and
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then fell asleep in during that time though Yuka had once again snooped through her boyfriend's phone and while
1:40:49
doing so she found a few photos of him with another woman she didn't know who
1:40:54
she was and it couldn't be a client because she' bought him out this discovery enraged Uka she'd noticed for
1:41:01
the last couple days that he'd been dist with her she put that together with these photos and took it as evidence
1:41:07
that he was cheating on her so how would you confront your partner if you were suspicious over a
1:41:13
picture discuss any problems in the relationship ask if everything's okay
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not for Yuka that's not how she rolled after waking up in the bath put on some
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underwear he then crept into the bedroom and slid into the bed trying not to wake yuker who was supposedly already asleep
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and because he was so already exhausted from all of his shifts the last few days he passed out pretty much
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immediately some time had passed when all of a sudden Phoenix felt an uncomfortable feeling coming from his
1:41:46
stomach he looked down and that's when he saw a knife lodged into his abdomen
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waking up in Surprise and Terror he looked back up to see Yuka arched over him is this real am I dreaming he
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thought running on pure adrenaline he shoved her off the bed and ran out the room yuk could chased Phoenix grabbing
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him as he left the front door him being taller though he was stronger and Pusher away as he reached the elevator by now
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Phoenix was losing a lot of blood the elevator door was closing and it was heading towards the ground floor and as
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the elevator door opened up to the lobby he lunged forward almost to safety and
1:42:26
then lost Consciousness yuk could caught up with Phoenix he lay collapsed on the floor of
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the hotel lobby blood pulling around his body by now passes by had noticed the
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horrific scene unfolding and the police they'd called them immediately but Uka
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she wouldn't leave his side she just sat there next to his body and people were too scared to get close to them in case
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she did something back and the following picture is what has made this case notorious when they got there police
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found uker sat next to his body drenched in his blood casually smoking a cigarette while on the phone to her
1:43:06
friend in the time had taken police to get there should also written a letter
1:43:11
with his blood repeatedly saying I love you over and over and over again Tokyo
1:43:16
Metropolitan Police apprehended Uka immediately they would find the letter that she wrote along with the knife she'
1:43:21
used to stab Phoenix in her apartment when the officer had asked her why she did it she replied with I was sad and
1:43:28
seeking to die I thought that if I kill him I could be with him I thought that Expressions such as I like you and I
1:43:35
would like to be with you would become reality if we both died numerous Witnesses watched as police escorted
1:43:42
Yuka into the back of their vehicle and when she got in there she was
1:43:47
smiling and as for the victim Phoenix Luna he was still alive but only barely
1:43:53
following the speed in which police and paramedics had got to the apartments he had not yet passed from his injuries he
1:43:59
was transported to a local hospital where he remained in critical condition with only a 20% chance to survive but on
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July the 1st an entire month after he was stabbed in the abdomen to everyone's surprise Fenix Luna was alive and
1:44:13
recovering he tweeted friends and fans to say sorry I'm alive and back before
1:44:18
adding since I was stabbed in the liver I can't drink being a survivor of a horrific experience Phoenix agreed to
1:44:25
attending a local interview and in that interview he refused to show any hate towards Yuka when asked he said that I
1:44:33
do not hold a grudge he even pleaded with the judge to reduce her sentence on
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Thursday the 5th of December 2019 the presiding judge sentenced uker to 3 years and 6 months for attempted M did I
1:44:46
get that right yep 3 years and 6 months on Thursday the 5th of December 2019 the
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presiding judge handed Uka a prison term of 3 years and 6 months for attempted murder Uka and Phoenix previously had
1:45:00
made a court settlement for her to pay him 5 million yen the equivalent of $47,000 as a means to reduce her time
1:45:07
behind bars at her hearing the court judge declared if possible I want people to be able to lead a normal life rather
1:45:14
than paying for their sins and the story doesn't end there following yuka's
1:45:19
attempted murder and imprisonment she grew an entire online community of fans most of which are invested in anime
1:45:25
culture that possess a deep admiration for her haing her as if she were a real life yandere her fans believed that she
1:45:32
didn't need to be condemned for her actions only rehabilitated she even had a GoFundMe
1:45:38
style campaign raised for her and while the campaign was shut down at the time she was receiving over $3,800 from 69
1:45:46
contributors almost the amount needed to get her out of prison following yuka's crime of attempted murder she's now
1:45:53
scheduled to be released from prison in May 2023 with this case happening in 2019 and Yuka only receiving 3 years it
1:46:01
is crazy to think that she is now back in the real world hopefully she has addressed whatever mental health issues
1:46:06
she was experiencing and as for Phoenix I admire his forgiveness now our next story is absolutely tragic and if you're
Shinji Aoba
1:46:13
an anime fan you've likely heard this one before already but this is the story of Shinji Oba with vibrant skylines
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modern architecture and supreme infrastructure structure Kyoto has a bit of everything something that many
1:46:27
companies and corporations would look for when settling an office and one of those companies was
1:46:33
Kyoto animation originally founded in 1981 by hideaki hat and his wife Yoko Kyoto
1:46:41
animation has thrived from humble beginnings as a small Production Services Company into one of Japan's
1:46:46
most successful Studios over the years Kyoto animation became recognized for its high
1:46:52
production value and its sensitivity to the Wonders and quandaries of ordinary life unlike most Studios they also paid
1:46:59
their employees and salary rather than freelance contract they would also train their employees in house thus
1:47:05
encouraging them to focus on quality rather than quota Kyoto animation grew
1:47:10
as a company over the decades eventually moving from its head office in uji City to Fushimi cou in Kyoto the new site
1:47:17
affectionately named Studio 1 they would go on to create popular anime titles such as as clad Kon and a silent Voice
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by the year of 2019 kyota animation was thriving they were well known not just for their products but for their
1:47:32
business practice too but as with all types of Fame all that positive attention will come with a slice of
1:47:38
negativity too I mean sure some would simply just find coot animations work boring some would even find a way to
1:47:45
dislike their business model but what I'm talking about is a very small minority the type that would find
1:47:51
personal hatred out of nothing and one of those individuals would go by the name of Shinji
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Alba in 2019 Shinji Alba was a 40-year-old man who lived in
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saitama he was born on the 16th of May 1978 he grew up in madoru a ward in
1:48:14
saama City when he was a child though his parents would divorce and this would
1:48:19
leave him with his father brother and sister Shinji lived a troubled life into
1:48:24
adulthood his classmates would describe him as absent and often a rate after he
1:48:30
graduated he became a part-time clerk at a convenience store after that though at the age of 34
1:48:36
Shinji would run into trouble with the law it was June 2012 and he robbed a convenience store with a knife he would
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gain 20,000 yen or $200 from it but he would eventually get caught police
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sentenced Shinji to 3 and a half years in prison at his trial he would tell PR that he was sick of living in a society
1:48:55
he was eventually released in 2016 where he moved back into an apartment in Saima City back in Kyoto kyot animation was
1:49:03
growing from strength to strength through the years and since 2009 kyot animation had been hosting an annual
1:49:09
competition called The Kyoto animation Awards they would Host this competition to connect with their audience and offer
1:49:15
exposure to talented writers where contestants could submit their stories to coot animation for
1:49:21
review the the selected winning stories to this competition would be published under the company's imprint and if
1:49:27
they're lucky would later have a chance to be adapted into an anime the award itself is prestigious and with 1 million
1:49:34
yen or $10,000 up for grabs it's fiercely competitive too and this is where Kyoto animation
1:49:40
and Shinji Alba first crossed paths because between the years of 2017 and
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2018 Shinji would submit a story to coyot animation twice anime is very commonly watched in
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Japan so much that it's predicted that about 35% of its population watches it
1:49:59
more than once a week and for Shinji he was very heavily in that category being
1:50:04
a stay home kind of guy he would heavily absorb himself into anime and gaming pretty much every day of the year his
1:50:10
submissions to coyot animation would not go very far though Unfortunately they were formally eliminated by judges in
1:50:16
the first round the numerous rejections disappointed Shinji they angered him in
1:50:21
fact but the grudge against coot animation would only start here and
1:50:27
shinji's troubled mind would only grow worse too since his release from prison Shinji
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was growing further isolated from friends and family in fact he almost had none in 1999 his father committed
1:50:42
suicide and since then he'd cut all contact with his brother and sister
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too it was clear that by 2018 Shinji seemed resentful to the world and
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antisocial with no family or friends to love he became bitter and with the only interactions with people around him
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being his neighbors they were becoming violent too in late 2018 after his stories had
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already been rejected by coot animation chinji was an unstable man but there would be one new detail to his life
1:51:13
which would set him down his darkest path he was in his home one evening watching more anime and the anime it was
1:51:19
made by coot animation in his deluded isolated mindset though he made a
1:51:24
connection the connection was that actually what he had just been watching it seemed way too familiar in fact it
1:51:31
was his story the story he submitted in the contest last year Kyoto animation
1:51:37
they'd stolen from him this outraged Shinji and kot animation they were going
1:51:42
to hear about [Music] it around the same time in October Stafford wake up one morning to over 200
1:51:50
death threats for email all sent to to various employees across the business the sender using anonymized software to
1:51:56
withhold their identity the police were contacted but since these emails were fired out using
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tour it was impossible to find out who the sender was maybe we can take a guess though
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instead police patrols were temporarily deployed around the building and while the death threat stopped Vengeance would
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soon be made in a much more Sinister way the following [Music]
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year Sunday the 14th of July
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2019 9 months had passed but shinji's life it was still the same it was the
1:52:34
weekend and Matsumoto a 27-year-old quality control engineer was enjoying his weekend on the couch Matsumoto or
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Matsu and Shinji were neighbors and unfortunately for the two of them another neighbor upstairs was assembling
1:52:47
Furniture Shinji though he thought it was Matsu the two often complained that he other over noise usually though
1:52:54
Shinji was the loud one Shinji started to bang on the shared wall between his and Matsu's Apartments Matsu being the
1:53:01
courteous guy walked up to shinji's front door to tell him that the noise it wasn't him Shinji opened his front door
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and he grabbed Matsu by the collar of his shirt before shouting at him you're too loud shut up I'm going to kill you I
1:53:15
have nothing to lose Shinji would eventually let go of Matsu and Matsu who was too scared to
1:53:21
stay at home walked down to the police station to report the assault by the time police would get to shinji's house
1:53:28
though to confront him he was gone and where he'd gone to was anyone's
1:53:34
guess by the next day Shinji had taken the shin Canen bullet train to Tokio and
1:53:39
checked in at a local Downtown hotel and the next morning on July the 16th Shinji
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traveled to Kyoto CCTV cameras captured him at various points along the
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way one at an Internet Cafe south of Kyoto station that night he stayed in another
1:53:58
nearby Hotel on Wednesday the 17th of July still wearing the same jeans and red
1:54:03
t-shirt that he'd worn for the last 3 days Shinji walked into a hardware store and bought himself a metal
1:54:10
trolley he then wheeled the trolley 6 miles north before stopping at an enus
1:54:15
gas station to purchase 10 gallons of gasoline Shinji then traveled with his
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trolley full of gasoline along uji river towards coyota animations Studio he would stop at the night for
1:54:28
hotel and the plans he had in store for tomorrow would be nothing short of
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evil on Thursday the 18th of July 2019 Shinji arrived at K Animation Studio
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with the cart full of gasoline the time was 10:31 a.m. and some 70 employees were inside working
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away that is when Shinji pushed through the building's front doors he toppled over
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one of the buckets of the gasoline he then flicked a lighter and screamed you
1:55:02
will die within 10 seconds of ignition the
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bucket of gasoline had exploded setting the building's first floor entirely a light and within another 10 seconds the
1:55:16
second floor was fully Ablaze too windows on the third floor were
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destroyed Within one minute of the blast black smoke blowing out from every open hole that it could
1:55:28
find Shinji Alba was still alive but considering he set the canister light
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and that exploded less than 10 seconds later he was on fire he ran out of the
1:55:39
building before collapsing in a street nearby passers by unaware of who the monster was quickly treated Shinji for
1:55:45
his injuries he would very quickly regain Consciousness as soon as he did he clambered to his feet and tried to
1:55:51
run away however two people from kyot animation recognized him they chased after him and
1:55:57
then bred him to the ground that is when police intervened and they caught up with him when they found out who he was
1:56:05
and they asked him why he did it Shinji shouted the plagiarized my work I demanded to speak to the company
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president firefighters were quick to the scene but the fate of half of the people inside had already been
1:56:19
determined the fire would continue to burn without m Mery for 5 long
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hours rescue workers would eventually find the bodies of 33 employees later that evening three on the first floor 11
1:56:32
on the second floor and 19 on the spiral staircase to the roof of which the door
1:56:37
had failed to open from inside the staircase acting as a Giant's funnel to fuel the
1:56:44
fire dozens more that were in the building at the time of the attack would be treated for their injuries but
1:56:50
unfortunately over the following weeks three more would die to their wounds bringing the total death toll to
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36 Japan was in total shock after the attack as news of the fire became more
1:57:02
obviously evil the nation the world and the anime Community all looked on in
1:57:07
anger and despair Shinji Alba would become the as salant to one of the nation's largest
1:57:13
acts of mass murder since the end of World War
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II as firefighters ended to Shinji on the streets police would discover that he actually had a plan B they found six
1:57:27
unused knives probably to be used if his arsonist plan failed to work and despite the several witnesses putting Shinji as
1:57:33
the main suspect the six unused knives found on his Persona and soon CCTV footage showing him at various locations
1:57:40
with the carts full of gasoline Kyoto police were not able to formally arrest the man he had suffered severe burns
1:57:46
across his entire body injuring himself so badly that he was unconscious and although police had a warrant for his
1:57:53
arrest they were unable to formally do that until medical examinations certified that he would be fit to
1:57:58
survive in a Detention Facility Shinji was actually given a 1% chance to live and as the days turned
1:58:05
into weeks he was still unconscious after the attack and miraculously or unfortunately depending which way you
1:58:12
look at it Shinji would survive his injuries in September 2019 doctors would
1:58:17
certify that he was no longer in a life-threatening condition there was a lack of human skin of available for
1:58:22
grafting though as organ donation is rare in Japan so officials made the right
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decision to give the victims priority to receive donor skin before Shinji and that donor would never arrive as Shinji
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became the first person in Japan to get a fully artificial skin graft police
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would eventually be able to start questioning Shinji in September 2019 and it was then that he confirmed
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again that yes he was the arsonist to the attack he would then go on to say I
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had a grudge against Kyoto animation I thought that if I sprayed gasoline around the building while setting the
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fire I could kill more people so that's why I did that it was in May 2020 that
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Shinji was declared fit enough for arrest 10 months after the attack by this time though the world had started
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spiraling into a pandemic the story of Shinji Aruba would slowly trundle on but
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without the international attention had once received he was formally arrested on the
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27th of May 2020 and by December 2020 he was formally charged too the 42-year-old
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undeniably guilty of his crimes he would confirm the reason for his rage is that he felt coyot animation had stolen one
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of his ideas and they' used it in one of their anime without crediting or compensating him he said the thing kot
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animation copied from me was the scene in Sur where the main characters by discounted meat according to reports the
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scene is vastly generic and K animation they deny plagiarizing anything from the
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man the days following the studio Massacre coot animation initially stated that they were not aware of any contest
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entries by Shinji but during a more thorough examination they discovered that he had indeed submitted his own
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novel this would again highlight though that his novel had been rejected in the first round of judgments and scrapped
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from the company's awareness a year and a half after the attack a six-month psychological
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evaluation on shinji's Mental Health had ended and the conclusion was that yes Shinji he knew what he was
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doing when he lit the fire he was mentally coherent this paves the way for Shinji to be prosecuted to the full
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extent of the law and with Japan accepting the death penalty in certain circumstances and this being one of the
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worst mass murders in over 70 years time it's not looking very good for Shinji
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kot animation also shared that they expect Shinji to be prosecuted to the maximum extent under Japanese
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law shinji's terrible actions left a scar on the anime Community with 36
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deaths and a further 34 injuries in recent news though he has since been found guilty and as of last month has
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been sentenced to death so for this compilation let's dive into one final video and although this begins in the UK
Joji Obara
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it ends in a Japanese Millionaire's home our story today begins in the
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southeast of England welcome to Kent there's a lot of history in this part of the UK but now Kent's economy is
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primarily Focus F upon Services known as The Garden of England Kent is full to the brim of old Cathedrals and castles
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but recently it's building itself a reputation for its food and wine found towards the Western border of
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Kent lies a small town named Seven Oaks and here lived Lucy Blackman Lucy was born on September the
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1st 1978 to her mother Jane and Father Tim Blackman Lucy was the oldest of
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three siblings and her younger sister Sophie and younger brother Rupert completed the family of five but sadly
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her parents would divorce in the middle of Lucy's childhood and throughout this separation Lucy along with her mother
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brother and sister would find themselves moving to Kent Lucy was described as a very happy child always full of energy
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and forthright with positivity she was a meticulous planner and this served her well in school following her graduation
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from school Lucy made the decision to become a flight attendant for British Airways a job which obviously would
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allow her to fly all over the world but over the following couple years she had grown exhausted from the constant travel
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and work and with many of these jobs not paying very well this left Lucy short on money and as a result she spiral into a
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small debt like many of us going through our first job it was in this moment of exhaustion that Lucy began to question
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her choice in career and Direction Lucy loved to travel and although her job with British Airways was relatively good
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it wasn't doing her any favors financially or for her mental health this was when Lucy and one of her
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friends and colleagues Louise hatched up a plan traveling didn't have to be hopping from one country to another
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every week they could settle in one foreign location find a good job and earn good money the two flights
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attendants had always liked the look of Japan a country which is seriously like no other being home to more than a dozen
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UNESCO world heritage sites Japan's traditions and principles Run Deep throughout the country add its food
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modern technology and sprawling Suburban lifestyle to the mix and you're only just touching the
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surface with this interest in mind Lucy and Louise decided to leave their jobs at to shs and instead find a job in
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Japan to repay their debts the idea was nerve-wracking but they had each other and so with that said they purchased
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their tickets headed over to hether airport and boarded their flight to
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Japan in May of the year 2000 Lucy and Lise found themselves in the heart of Tokyo settling for an apartment near
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rongi a district well known for its nightlife in Western culture they spread out to find a job and soon after that
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they came back with an offer they began to work at one of the local nightclubs called Casablanca where they became
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hostesses to its many patrons among many other aspects Japan has its own way of doing things when
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compared to the Western World and host and Hostess clubs also known as kabakura fall into this category hostesses are
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paid to light cigarettes provide drinks Converse and perhaps flirt with their customers this may include karaoke but
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it's worth mentioning that dancing stripping and anything otherwise are generally abandoned curas it's a place
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for businessmen or women to relax and enjoy themselves all within a PG atmosphere and particularly in raponi
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many of these bars sought to hire Western women for their Japanese patrons the pay was fine and they both had good
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experience in public customer service how hard could it be anyway as part of
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Casablanca club's rules all hostesses are encouraged to meet their customers for dinner prior to bringing them to the
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club where their shift would begin and this kind of dinner date is known as a Dohan in Japan Lucy's parents were
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concerned about their daughter's choice in work but she was confident and made it very clear that she knew her limits
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she described the job as still being an air hostess but without the
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altitude July the 1st 2000 in the warm Saturday afternoon Lucy
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slipped on her sandals and black dress as she made her way to the front door seeing her friend Louise in the adjacent
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room she explained that she was going on a Dohan with a customer from the Casablanca Club she said he'd offered
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her a new mobile phone in return and the date would only be an hour long at a restaurant near the beach
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Louise understood she told Lucy not to take too long as the girls had plans lateer that evening her boyfriend Scott
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Fraser was also in the area and the three of them were looking forward to the weekend plans Lucy would message
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Louise three times later that day her first message sent at 1:30 p.m. said I am now with my lunch date and at 5:00
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p.m. she sent Louise another text message to say I am being taken to the Sea and finally at around 6:45 p.m. she
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sent her third and final text message I'll be back in half an hour this same text message was sent to Scott a few
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minutes later but as the Clock Struck 8:00 p.m. Lucy still hadn't returned home and as Tokyo slipped further into
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the night Lucy remained unaccounted for despite having evening plans telling her friend and her boyfriend that she was on
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her way no one had seen or heard from Lucy quite simply she had
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vanished what do you do when your friend disappears in a foreign city and not just any foreign city but the capsule of
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Japan with the greater Tokyo area holding a population of 34.4 million residents finding a needle in a hay
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stack would be much easier adding unfamiliarity to the country's language law and practices and you're now in very
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uncomfortable territory Louise contacted local police but they didn't seem too interested and
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as Saturday crawled into Sunday and then into Monday there were still no signs of ly no one at the club had seen her and
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all phone calls and text messages to her mobile were seemingly ignored but then suddenly in the evening of
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Monday the 3rd of July Louise received a phone call it was from a man with a thick Japanese accent he spoke English
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well but slowly he said Lucy can't talk at the moment Lucy is okay but she isn't
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coming home she has joined a newly risen cult She is safe and training in Hutton
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Chiba back at home in England and Lucy's mother Jane had just been made aware of Lucy's disappearance and her reaction
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was Swift and violent from the very moment that that she knew her daughter was missing she was terrified the
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anonymous call was concerning in its own right but it was also extremely out of character for Lucy to just vanish
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without saying anything just the very next morning Lucy's sister Sophie and her ex-boyfriend Jamie were now on a
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flight to Tokyo and the challenge they now faced before themselves was both expansive and daunting although a
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missings person's report had been filed police were very lethargic to look into Lucy's case and over the following days
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working with authorities was both cumbersome and frustrating they simply didn't care they exclaimed that she was
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an adult free to do whatever she wants and quite frankly it wasn't their problem at the time police effort was
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very poor Lucy's silence could mean a life or death situation not to add to her family's extreme anxieties but time
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really was of the essence they realized they were not going to get anywhere with this current momentum and so as a result
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they directed their attention towards the media instead perhaps if Lucy's case publicly blew up it would Garner tips
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and information and finally kick local police into action making public appearances in front of the Japanese
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press nurtured strong results and over the following days Lucy's disappearance grew in notoriety and attention the
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Japanese public started to weigh in and help many tips came through to the new private hotline and although this
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sounded encouraging there were a lot of red herrings and as Lucy's family approached the two we Mark both anxiety
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and Desperation started to boil by now both English and Japanese media were obsessed with the case even Prime
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Minister Tony Blair and virgins Richard Branson making appeals to the public and this put a lot of pressure on Japanese
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police by the end of the third week a handwritten letter had made its way to the police this note was apparently
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written by Lucy in which he said she was okay and didn't want to be contacted however the signature was
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proven to be forged somebody out there was playing games with the police in parallel to this Lucy's family made the
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decision to hire a private investigator from England and being assigned the job he flew over to Tokyo immediately
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he began to prowl the streets of rongi and Ginza and eventually he found his way to Club Casablanca while he was here
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one of the other Western hostesses came forward she admitted seeing Lucy with another man in the nights before she
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disappeared so maybe he knew something using his contacts from Scotland Yard
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back in the UK this private investigator had an artist impression created from the given description which in return
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created this profile image and as Lucy's disappearance spread like wildfire
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multile Western women would eventually come forward all of them gave very concerning stories of their experience
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with a man thought to be the same person in this profile image and as one account turned into several a very worrying
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pattern emerged in each and every case this man would take the young woman on a Dohan promising them money and luxurious
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gifts before lowering them back to his apartment and after arriving he would spike their drink and assault
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them although the name of this man varied from victim to victim his appearance did not he was described to
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be mid mid-aged man he had medium length hair for a man and he was handsome charming and visibly
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Rich the collected accounts of several young women when combined with the police sketch was encouraging news to
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investigators it gave them a definitive lead to work towards however despite this no new discoveries were made and as
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Lucy's disappearance slipped from weeks into months many started to doubt if they would ever hear from her again as
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time goes by both the public and media attention tend to grow less interested in the missing person's case and
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realistically so does the opportunity to collect evidence surveillance tapes get written over fingerprints are weathered
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away and people's memories of the Day begin to fade it was beginning to look less and less likely that this case
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would ever be solved when suddenly in the fourth month of police investigation officers made a breakthrough as October
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rolled around a prime suspect had at long last been identified the man's name was Joi abara he was known to frequent
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Casablanca Club but always under a different name nevertheless he perfectly fit the description given by multiple
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victims born on August the 10th 1952 joara came from a hardworking family
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hard work that for his father turned into Fortune his father was a Korean immigrant he moved to Japan as a young
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adult with no money but Big Dreams his tenacity and hard work ethic served him very well he may have begun his career
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as a scrap collector but by the time he and his wife gave birth to Jo he was extremely wealthy building an empire
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through taxi companies pinko paror and real estate business along with his two brothers Joi
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earned himself a reputation as the stereotypical rich kid at school he was often protected by his father's wealth
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and by the time he enrolled into KO Senior High School in Kanagawa his father rewarded him with a house
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unfortunately at the age of 17 his father sadly passed away leaving Joi and his two brothers over 40 million yen in
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assets across Asaka and Tokyo the equivalent to £25 million or $33
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million after graduating from KO University with a degree in politics and law he became a naturalized Japanese
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citizen with his brothers moving on to become doctors but progressing into his 30s joji found his everyday job to be
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tedious and boring it was around this time from 1986 to 1991 that Japan
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experienced an economic bubble meaning that the real estate and stock market prices began to Rocket Joi heavily
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invested into this believing that prices would continue to indefinitely rise but in the early months of 1992 this bubble
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burst causing real estate prices to plunge and Japan's economy to
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stagnate he lost the risk and as a result his F collapsed his fortune almost entirely gone but he wasn't out
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of the fight yet instead he began to use his company as a money laundering front for the Yakuza also known as the
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Japanese Mafia so as soon as Joi was recognized as the man in the police sketch officers began to build a case
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around him and of course keep him under close observation and finally in early October he was was officially arrested
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and charged on five counts of indecent assault therefore allowing officers to raid and investigate his
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property what they found inside was devastating he had a large Library full of videos of himself taking advantage of
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his drugged victims with some of these crimes dating back all the way to the early '90s he had been committing these
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awful acts of violence for almost an entire decade despite police findings and
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victim accusations Joi denied all acts of violence and also denied ever meeting Lucy this is on the contrary to multiple
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reports placing him in the same bar as her only days prior to her disappearance with Joi behind bars but
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as evidence mostly circumstantial Lucy's family needed more information to feel comfortable that he was Lucy's suspect
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off the back of this an international appeal was launched to ask anyone who may have had experience with Jo GI abara to come forward and this would strike a
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cord with an Australian Man 8 years earlier in February of 1992 he was in
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love with a woman named karita Ridgeway in in fact they were engaged looking forward to spend the rest of their lives
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together but things didn't quite turn out that way karita was an aspiring actress but with her dream of making it
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big she needed money to attend acting school and I'm sorry if you can see where this is going karita decided to
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pay for her tuition by becoming a Hostess in Tokyo's curas and as part of this agreement she would go on
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doans on February 27th 1992 karita attended a Dohan with a rich Japanese
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man but after this date she was dropped off unconscious karita was rushed to
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hospital in which doctors did the very best they could to save her but tragically 2 days later she died of
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liver failure the cause of her death was officially deemed to be Hepatitis E or
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natural causes but this idea never felt plausible to her family or boyfriend
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karita was a healthy woman she had no concerning medical history and she was always clean the boyfriend contacted
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Japanese authorities who in return reopened K's case with a sharp Focus to link her with Joi abara and the
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conclusion they were looking for came very quickly amongst the 400 videotapes found
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in joi's home was one named K Ridgeway and in his diary on February the 27th 1992 he had written K Ridgeway too much
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chloroform as tragic as this development was this information was all that police needed to upgrade Jo's charges from
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assault to murder and although this fresh evidence was successful in strengthening his role in Lucy's
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disappearance it sadly didn't confirm it but then in January of 2001 6 months
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after Lucy Had vanished a very sad and solemn Discovery was made on January the 10th 2001
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investigations LED police to a cave off the shores of Mira in Kanagawa and this cave was only 100 m away from Jo's
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apartment while here they noticed uneven concrete underneath the Basin of a bathtub rather puzzled they began to
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remove the concrete and what they found underneath were a series of packages they slowly opened these packages up and
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tragically inside each of them were dismembered body parts with even the head ined in concrete when postmortem
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examiners cut into the cement they hoped to find teeth to match with dental records but instead they immediately
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found one identifiable feature it was long natural blonde hair as you can probably guess the body
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was later confirmed to belong to Lucy Blackman Lucy's family were devastated
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the long spell of Silence from their daughter already painted a very grave reality for her but they always held on
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to the hope that maybe one day she would return and this discovery would put an end to their hopes the discovery of
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Lucy's body would ignite a very long exhausting legal battle between joji abara and not just the family of Lucy
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and karita but the family of many other victims too juji had now been charged with nine counts of indecent assault the
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murder of K Ridgeway and now the murder of Lucy Blackman too but he would still deny having anything to do with Lucy's
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death and and this was despite her body being found not even 2 minutes from his apartment Joi admitted that he'd spent
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the evening with her but insisted that shortly after 5:00 p.m. she had left the apartment apparently she was high and
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therefore he asked her to leave the entire trial would last almost seven long years which was full of
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disappointing spectacles by Joi in one of his days in courts he refused to leave his jail cell and instead he
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stripped naked held onto his toilet Basin and repeatedly screamed no there is some extremely frustrating evidence
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coming up but before that I wanted to share with you that Joi was found not guilty over the murder of Lucy Blackman
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which makes the following details all the more enraging through the multitudes of
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analysis investigators were able to confirm the following at around 400 p.m. on July the 1st 2000 Lucy met up with
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Joi an hour later she rang Louise to say that they were on their way to the coast mobile phone data confirms this at 5:30
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p.m. a Japanese couple saw Joi and Louise together at a seaside resort and a photo from a camera from Jo's flat
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confirms that they were on the beach shortly after blonde hairs belonging to Lucy were found in his flat and this was
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confirmed by DNA analysis mobile phone records confirmed that Lucy made a final call in the evening while in his home
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this was confirmed by triangulating her mobile phone's coordinates copies of a forged signature were found in his
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apartment proving that he was the fraudster who had pretended to be her through a letter we don't quite know
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what happened later this evening but the very next day on July the 2nd phone record show that Joi had called several
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hospitals in his area asking how to treat someone who's experienced a drug overdose the very next day on July the
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3rd receipts confirm that Joi purchased a chainsaw cement mix and other tools from a hardware store and later that
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afternoon police were called by Jo's neighbor who' complained about suspicious activity and noise as
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apparently they had heard terrified shouting the day prior it gets even more suspicious
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police reports indicate that late that afternoon officers arrived at joi's apartment to request that they look
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around upon entering they found that he had cement mix on his hands and he was visibly shaken when police requested to
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look in his bathroom he became aggressive and refused to let them in instead exclaiming that they'd already seen enough the police left without
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pressing this issue any further neighbors reported that later in the evening on the same day they witnessed
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joji pacing the small Beach next to his apartment several times and Hospital records show that he was treated for
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extensive bug bites the next day as a result for being outside all night however despite the text messages phone
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calls witness reports police reports Forge signature mobile phone data DNA
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previous cases and bug bites he was still found innocent over Lucy's murder
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granted he was found guilty on nine counts of indecent assault and the murder of karita Ridgeway therefore
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sentencing him to life but really the reason for this is the prosecutor couldn't find any of his DNA on her body
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and also they couldn't determine the cause of her death so technically he was dismissed and thankfully one year later
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after being appealed joju was retried on the murder of Lucy Blackman where he was finally found guilty but seriously this
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should have happened the first time around at least to me but this case highlights the sure incompetence of Japan's former police force I know in
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recent years they've reformed to become more compassionate and responsive but back then they really didn't care about their
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tourists a few side notes from this case but while joji was under trial and not yet found guilty he offered Lucy's
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mother condolence money formally requesting her to stop the trial for 400
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£150,000 understandably she refused but only days later her ex-husband which is Lucy's father took the money
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instead obviously this caused a massive Rift in the family and I'll let you be the judge on how moral this was to his
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own daughter Jo's case is unique he truly is a deviant and a monster to the
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highest degree he assaulted not one but hundreds of women and technically became a killer through his own Ventures and
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despite over 99% of Japan's murderers conf confessing once Court he remains as part of the 1 perent who refuses to
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accept responsibility and blame joji abara is a chronic liar who denies any accountability and obviously he is used
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to getting everything he desires who knows how many more women he would have terrorized if it wasn't for the tenacity
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and strong will of Lucy's family and friends all of which even 22 years later
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continued to live their lives with a hole in their heart and so concludes the case of Jo abara the crazy thing is it
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