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Dissatisfied Kids Give Parents The Axe
Literally. 
Before, I wrote about how family dismemberment murders were more popular than J-pop and Doraemon. These days it seems that the appeal of giving one’s mother or father the old love chop with an axe is an activity that is sure to draw many socially maladjusted lost souls away from internet and maid cafes and back to the nest for a bit of slice and dice.
Here are a few pieces from the Mainichi Shinbun:
Teen ax killer says she gave her father the ‘guillotine’ over his affairs
KYOTO — A teenage girl arrested for murdering her father in an ax attack at their home has told police she had been suspicious about his relationships with women for several years and decided to give him the “guillotine.”
The 16-year-old girl, whose name has been withheld because she is a minor, is under arrest for killing her 45-year-old father, a Kyoto Prefectural Police sergeant, at their home in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, on Sept. 18.
When questioned by police over her actions, she said, “I had been suspicious about my father’s relationships with women for several years. I thought I’d give him the guillotine.”
Police are continuing to question the girl over her specific motives for the killing. (Mainichi)
Click here for the original Japanese story
（Mainichi Japan） September 25, 2007
Man arrested for murdering mom with ax after she told him to get a job
NODA, Chiba — A man has been arrested for fatally attacking his mother with an ax after she told him to get a job, police said.
Shigeru Arai, 59, a resident of Noda, admitted to the allegations during questioning. “I became furious after she told me off for being jobless, so I killed her,” Arai was quoted as telling investigators.
At around 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Arai hacked the neck of his 82-year-old mother Kane, a farmer, with an ax at their home in Noda, murdering her, according to investigators. Arai was living with his mother and younger brother.
15-year-old boy arrested for attacking father with ax
TATSUNO, Nagano — A 15-year-old boy was arrested for attacking his father with an ax early Monday, leaving him with severe head injuries, police said.
The boy, a third-year junior high school student, was arrested for attempted murder after he turned himself in to police. Investigators are questioning the boy, whose name is being withheld under the Juvenile Law, over the motives for his crime.
At about 2 a.m., the boy hit his 44-year-old sleeping father in the head with an ax several times at his home in Tatsuno, local police said. When paramedics arrived at the victim’s home, he was bleeding from his head, but was fully conscious. (Mainichi)
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（Mainichi Japan） September 24, 2007
Filed under: News-Japan
What scares me is that I have a couple of students that it wouldn’t surprise me if they went home and killed their parents. I make a point of being extra nice and understanding to them so as to not tip them over the edge… seriously!
na na na na na na na na na na na….oh it cuts like a knife, but it feels sooo right!
ha! and you say usa is the only crazy country with its gun murders and violence!
i say ney! japan has long been a repressed emotional nation. time to let loose the evil…muuha ha ha.
but seriously, why not use a gun? are guns hard to get in Japan? i mean, if you’re gonna go crazy and muder some innocent person, you’d think a gun is the way to go. a little less midevil! seacrest out…
Yes. Guns are hard to get here. I’ve said it before, if guns become available here the same way as in the US, I’m leaving the country. I mean, you’ve got whackos stabbing people randomly on the streets here and saying ‘Anybody would’ve been fine’. I mean, give some of these people guns and whoa nelly!!! The gun violence in the US is fucked up, but I bet Japan could give the States a run for its money (percentagewise) if guns were made readily available here.
cool…you double posted!
Oh yeah. I wouldn’t trust *any* Japanese person in Japan with a gun, let alone *anything* that could be used as a weapon…(probably everything).
I really don’t understand their mindset of “anyone would have been alright”. If this is their thinking, then there is definitely a few cows loose in the top paddock if you know what i mean!!
And how does nobody notice their significant other/brother/father/son etc is acting like a wacko? Surely there are signs that something like this is coming on…or do they wake up one day and say “oh, i might go stab someone”…?
I won’t go into detail here, but I’ve known a few Japanese people who’ve scared me quite a bit by their overemotional behavior. It got to the point where I couldn’t even let one of them into my apartment and had to call the police several times.
Eww. I once had a penpal from Saitama who sent me a pic of my photo plastered all over his wall. Sometime later he wrote he was receiving treatment at a mental hospital. That’s when i ended communication!
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What does that have to do with the conversation at hand?
azumarisan, I hope you won’t be exchanging photos with penpals anymore. Haha. Seriously, there are just too many weird people out there. When I chatted with the Japanese police officer who came when I called, he said that probably better than 50% of people here suffer from depression and some form of mental illness. But, I couldn’t tell if that was his way of saying ’steer clear of Japanese women, gaijin-san’ or not.
Chigliac, what the fuck are you talking about?
Would you like me to create a techie page so you can post about such gadgets?
Here’s a headline from BBC World News about the US:
‘Gunman kills six in US Midwest’
and here’s the story:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7032971.stm
Guess the US will always be the leader when it comes
to volume of dead bodies after a domestic dispute. But,
maybe this is preferable to being hacked up with an axe
and then put into several trash bags and scattered
throughout the region. I don’t know? Both situations
are pretty fucked up.
azumarisan, on October 8th, 2007 at 5:44 pm Said:
What does that have to do with the conversation at hand.
just thought i would let you know about it, if you’re interested.
i never heard of these weird usa shootings in the 70s or 80s…seems like it started with columbine in the 90s. am i wrong? still, with a huge and populated country like the usa, our crime per capita is low, especially violent crime. the stupid media will blow up these stories, so it appears crime is raging everywhere.
really, what huge and populated country has no crime? crime is everywhere, in every nation. i’ve given up hope on the world a long time ago…i would like to move to a farm in the middle of nowhere montana, idaho, oregon etc. there are some good people out there but it’s getting harder to find them!
Point taken. :) Yeah crime is everywhere. But here in Oz not so much. Well it seems like the USA and Japan are getting really violent.