A very belated happy New Year and a mystery solved
Well, it's been a while - 23 days to be exact, which in cyberspace is a lifetime! Not to fret, for I am back (no, I doubt if you are actually fretting, but just humour me).
So, to begin this first entry in the year of the wild boar let's clear up a riddle. do you remember my entry of the 17th December? It was about the gruesome discovery of a headless, limbless body in Shinjuku, packed into a plastic garbage bag. Well, the initial speculation was that it was some sort of yakuza gang killing, and when the head to the body was found a few weeks later in another location this seemed to back that theory up. However, it turned out that this very dead person was reported missing by his wife shortly before Christmas. She had said that he had been out drinking with work colleagues, and had never returned home. However, one of his work colleagues, upon hearing this did some checking up, and asked the apartment building security of the couple to confirm his colleague had not returned that fateful night, and they said he had (there was CCTV evidence). He reported this to the police, who promptly arrested the wife, who then immediately admitted to killing her husband.
Now, this wasn't just some ordinary murder. There was a press release with more details. The woman, who claimed her husband had been beating her, koshed the husband over the head with a wine bottle as he was sleeping. This killed him, and instead of reporting it to the police, she went out the next day and purchased a saw, a knife and some large garbage bags. Then she cut him up, with the plan to make it look as if it was some sort of gangster killing, and then distributed the various body parts around Tokyo.
I mean, blimey! Talk about strange. Even stranger is the fact that almost at the exact same time there was another similar murder, where a 21 year old man killed his sister by first hitting her on the head, then strangling her, drowning her and finally chopping her up into ten pieces. He then went to an intensive cramming course to help him get into dental school, telling his father that if he smelt something funny from his room it was some shark meat he'd bought. Of course, the smell got pretty unbearable, and when it was checked, his parents found their dead daughter.
In both cases the families were rich and seemingly successful, and outwardly happy. Internally, there was the alleged physical abuse in the first case, and in the second, the brother said his sister, who he hadn't spoken to for two years (even though they lived together), had said that he would never be able to enter dental school (because he had been trying for two years and had been failing).
Something is terribly wrong in this society for such things to happen, especially because the perception is that Japan is such a peaceful, community driven country.
So, to begin this first entry in the year of the wild boar let's clear up a riddle. do you remember my entry of the 17th December? It was about the gruesome discovery of a headless, limbless body in Shinjuku, packed into a plastic garbage bag. Well, the initial speculation was that it was some sort of yakuza gang killing, and when the head to the body was found a few weeks later in another location this seemed to back that theory up. However, it turned out that this very dead person was reported missing by his wife shortly before Christmas. She had said that he had been out drinking with work colleagues, and had never returned home. However, one of his work colleagues, upon hearing this did some checking up, and asked the apartment building security of the couple to confirm his colleague had not returned that fateful night, and they said he had (there was CCTV evidence). He reported this to the police, who promptly arrested the wife, who then immediately admitted to killing her husband.
Now, this wasn't just some ordinary murder. There was a press release with more details. The woman, who claimed her husband had been beating her, koshed the husband over the head with a wine bottle as he was sleeping. This killed him, and instead of reporting it to the police, she went out the next day and purchased a saw, a knife and some large garbage bags. Then she cut him up, with the plan to make it look as if it was some sort of gangster killing, and then distributed the various body parts around Tokyo.
I mean, blimey! Talk about strange. Even stranger is the fact that almost at the exact same time there was another similar murder, where a 21 year old man killed his sister by first hitting her on the head, then strangling her, drowning her and finally chopping her up into ten pieces. He then went to an intensive cramming course to help him get into dental school, telling his father that if he smelt something funny from his room it was some shark meat he'd bought. Of course, the smell got pretty unbearable, and when it was checked, his parents found their dead daughter.
In both cases the families were rich and seemingly successful, and outwardly happy. Internally, there was the alleged physical abuse in the first case, and in the second, the brother said his sister, who he hadn't spoken to for two years (even though they lived together), had said that he would never be able to enter dental school (because he had been trying for two years and had been failing).
Something is terribly wrong in this society for such things to happen, especially because the perception is that Japan is such a peaceful, community driven country.
posted by TOK at 3:10 pm
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