Hachioji, Japan and the Latest ‘Daredemo Yokatta’ Attack
By billywest • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Featured Story, News Of The Mentally Defective
Well, you knew this story was heading right for ‘News of the Mentally Defective.’ I take no pleasure in reporting it and would rather not, but this guy has to be cursed in print somewhere. So here goes:
Here’s a guy who needs to be strapped into a wheelchair, have all of his fingers and toes sawed off one by one, coated with sugar and watery syrup, and rolled into an angry hornets’ nest.
Shoichi Kanno, 33, didn’t have much going for him. Well, a lot of people don’t for that matter, but Shoichi decided to make someone else pay for his own inability to make a decent life for himself. He did whatever any ‘daredemo ii’ lunatic does best, he singled out a weak, unsuspecting victim and stabbed her to death in Hachioji.
The victim, 22-year-old Mana Saiki will get about 5 percent of the press time that Kanno will get, but hey, murderers are more interesting, right? Hell, I guess if I wasn’t as bad as every other reporter out there, I’d dig up Ms. Saiki’s history and write a piece about the kind of person she was. But, I hope journalists out there with more access to such information will take care of that one.
For now, let’s just take a short look at what has us all shaking our heads (again), Mr. Kanno’s handiwork. Why did he kill Ms. Saiki and attack another woman in Hachioji? Well, let’s get it straight from the mouth of the man who found his calling in life…
From Mainichi Daily News:
Investigators said that Kanno was responding to questioning in a straightforward manner. He reportedly told them, “My work wasn’t going well and I bought the knife after deciding to kill someone. I was frustrated. I didn’t care who (I attacked).”
Well, there you have it. His work wasn’t going well and he decided to remove someone, who probably had her own set of problems, from the world. The problem was, it was without her permission. She likely had experienced difficult times herself, but it’s highly doubtful she ever considered doing what Mr. Kanno did. In fact, many people’s lives (and work, for that matter) aren’t going well. Let’s see, I can think of starving families in Calcutta slums or migrant workers toiling away in California fields picking fruits and vegetables to name a couple of groups. It’s disillusioned people like Mr. Kanno in developed nations that pull crap like this, namely randomly killing others because they’re bored or discouraged.
Well, I for one say, fuck ‘em. Give these types the death penalty every time. No need to rehabilitate them (can you rehabilitate those who never adjusted in the first place?), no need to pity them because what they do is piss all over the plights of people living in far worse circumstances than themselves. This makes them bad world citizens and they need to be kicked off the planet. Enough said.
Here’s to you, Mr. Shoichi Kanno. You’ve hurt both the living and the dead and you’ve scarred society even more while likely influencing other ticking time bombs to go out there and engage in more ‘daredemo ii’ wackyness. And for that, we salute you; there wasn’t anyone more mentally defective in the land of wa on July 22nd, 2008 (and likely for the rest of July).
billywest is a resident of South Tokyo and lives on the Toyoko line.
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Murder in Hachioji - More ‘Daredemo Yokatta’ Senselessness…
Well, I didn’t expect to update the ‘News of the Mentally Defective’ column so quickly, but this story necessitated it….
That sucks. It is scary too. I have been to Hachioji a few times with my wife and son and her mom.
I get the same feeling about the wackos here in the states who go to their work or former work and kill their ex-coworkers for some lame reason or the guys who kill their wife.
Why don’t they just do us all a favor and kill themselves before they decide to kill someone else.
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Agreed. Why don’t they?!
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Actually sain people that have a tons of problem do kill themselves. That’s the insain and crazies that tends to want to bring people down with them.
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Yeah, I was just reading a story in The Daily Yomiuri about a middle-school girl who woke up at 3 am and just decided to stab her father to death on a whim. She was frustrated with school, but she didn’t really connect that with her dad. She told police she just felt like it. I would link It, but then the comment looks like spam. So just go to my site, there’s more on it there.
Goddamn.
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I’ll go ahead and link that news here: http://www.sevententotokyo.com/saitama-girl-sick-of-studying-slays-father/
I don’t mind relevant links, Todd. So feel free to link up in the future. I always review comments and spam comments to make sure I don’t lose anything.
Cheers!
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billy … you should just drop this category of posts … it will get to you and you might become a “Daredemo ii-jin” yourself in frustration (or just to know how the fvck it feels like).
humans are insane and auto-destructive by nature … I think we’ll be lucky if humans last a couple more generations before desappearing from the face of earth.
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Haha. No Chance
I actually really like people and will be sad when most of them disappear from the face of the Earth (I won’t disappear: I am the post-apocalypse wasteland king), but I do detest these kinds of bad humans.
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Another sad attack that is just so hard to understand. I agree with the comment above that it’s the sane ones that decide to kill themselves and the crazies that kill someone else. I mean do they really think that killing someone else that has never even touched their lives is going to make them feel better? Sad, so, so, sad.
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Animals should regain control of the world again. We humans are utter scum to say the least.
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Well, I disagree profoundly. This guy needs to be analysed along with the rest of them. If there was just one guy like this in the population, then throw the book at him. But the reality is that there are increasing numbers of people who have committed crimes and will commit these crimes. It is only through studying these psychos and their social conditions that we have any hope of preventing the next massacre. Remember, if you include suicides, there are thousands of people willing to relieve a human of their life in Japan. Why is this? There was a time this was not the case. If you keep a monkey in a cage and dont give it stimulation it will pull its hair out and hurt itself. Something similar is happening in modern-day Japan. As a Westerner living in Japan I feel glad that I was raised in a loving family with a government and society we could criticize and not take too seriously. I think that Japanese society itself has lost the plot and values have become meaningless. I dont believe that these people that lash out are the scum of the earth, but that they hold values that are not compatible with this society and this creates a feeling of anxiety and agression and they feel compelled to act against the norm. (Check out the culture of cutting oneself in Japan-it makes them feel normal!). Under different circumstances perhaps these criminals could be model citizens? As for solutions, I guess they are long term and would call more a more humane treatment of Japanese and a greater socialisation. Perhaps Japan doesnt want to pay the taxes this would require and prefers a security state with CCTV and security guards.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I understand the feeling that these people need to be analyzed. But, what to do once it’s been concluded that there are scores of people brought up in the same kind of environment, with the same troubles he’s had and that 95% or so have been able to successfully adjust to society?
I don’t disagree with you that Japan has its own special kinds of societal sicknesses (as many countries do), but it will have to deal with its own societal troubles the best way it knows how.
“there are thousands of people willing to relieve a human of their life in Japan. Why is this? There was a time this was not the case”
Hmmm… Japan has a long history of violence and brutality like many other countries.
Many experts in Japan believe that a lot of this craziness is the result of the so-called “bubble-burst.” I’m not sure. But if the guy must be analyzed, there’s plenty of time to do that before he’s executed.
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