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What is making adults murder young girls in Japan?
January 3, 2006
Murders of young girls have continued to shock Japan in recent months and sexual attacks against girls on school routes are virtually a daily occurrence, says Sunday Mainichi.
But just what prompts criminals to commit these atrocious crimes? One trend that seems to be surfacing among the perpetrators, the magazine warns, is increasing immaturity that has left criminals clueless when it comes to building normal relationships with those around them.
In one incident in 2004 a 28-year-old man dragged a first-year junior high school girl into his home In Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, with the intention of molesting her, and then killed her. In court, public prosecutors brought up the man's relationships.
He was unable to build close friendships with those around him and he never became familiar with the opposite sex. Up until the time of the crime he had never had a relationship with a woman, a prosecutor told the court.
The man's mother had divorced and got into a relationship with another man, and a girl he had liked at high school reportedly married a guy he hated. Prosecutors argued that he had come to hold general distrust against adult women, and turned young girls into sex objects as a result.
Akira Sakuta, a professor in criminal psychology at Seigakuin University, tells Sunday Mainichi that pedophilia can be classed into two categories -- that in which the person sees only children as objects, and that in which the person sees children as an alternative to women.
Kaoru Kobayashi, the 37-year-old man held over the killing of a 7-year-old schoolgirl in Nara Prefecture in 2004, had reportedly lived with a woman and visited sex shops. Tsutomu Miyazaki, 43, another accused killer held for murdering four young girls, also reportedly had an interest in adult women.
Sakuta says criminals may approach girls because they are easy to talk to at first. But because the criminals lack maturity and can't form a sexual relationship with adults, they gradually turn their carnal desires toward these girls. The lack of confidence in these criminals to form normal relationships is probably a sign of their immaturity, Sakuta says.
Masaaki Noda, a professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, blames cell phones for increasing immaturity, telling the weekly magazine they have destroyed real communication. People think they are connected with others when they send simple cell-phone e-mails to them asking them what they are doing or if they have performed routine activities. But they are really avoiding real communication and the friction that comes with it, he says.
These people can end up living in a world without friction, simply putting up with situations instead of negotiating. When they finally crack, they think the only option is to fulfil their desires, Noda says. In the case of criminals' attacks against children, the criminals end up killing their victims in this way, without a fuss, he says.
Takao Morita, emeritus professor at Ochanomizu University, adds that the Internet has left people with knowledge but without wisdom to guide it.
That leads to crimes, he tells the weekly magazine. It's important to have an awareness of the price of convenience.
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I blame it on the salaryman-oriented culture and work ethic
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Unless someone here has majored in psychology and has studied convicts in Japan for years, I don't think anyone can truly answer that question. I mean what is making male adults molest young boys and girls in America?
You can certainly try to find the easiest source to blame, but finding the easiest scapegoat does not solve any of the problems in this world.
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the world is becoming a terrifying place to live in...
i think it's all about power. these criminals feed off of/love to see the vulnerable helplessness in the victim's faces. since these men lack confidence, young girls [children]are probably their easiest targets to bolster their low self esteem.
makes me terrified of bringing children into this kind of world.
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ehh Hentai? O______0
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^LOL
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sexually deprived ppl... wow... I feel sorry for those girls... tools for those who can't get any with real women (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)
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ehh Hentai? O______0
that's what I thought. Too many raping scenes in hentai.
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poor girls....................
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I blame those really sexylific uniforms. That's sexylicious baby.
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I blame those really sexylific uniforms. That's sexylicious baby.
Uh. Have you ever seen an ACTUAL Japanese school uniform? Most rules state that the skirts have to be below or hit the knee. So, unlike all those crazy anime where you see girls wearing sorry-ass excuses of mini-skirts for school uniform skirts, really the uniforms are very decent.
I blame the media. And sorry-ass men who can't even get a date and have to take out their frustration on defenseless girls.
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[font=Tahoma]Uh. Have you ever seen an ACTUAL Japanese school uniform? Most rules state that the skirts have to be below or hit the knee. So, unlike all those crazy anime where you see girls wearing sorry-ass excuses of mini-skirts for school uniform skirts, really the uniforms are very decent.
true true..although at my school there still are quite a bit of girls who wear it very short despite it being against the rules..you see it at other schools around here too, they think it's cute...the rules are not strictly enforced even at private schools
however none of the schoolgirls have huge blue eyes, big boobs and blonde ponytails..damn anime brainwashing our youth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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^ XD yeah.
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Uh. Have you ever seen an ACTUAL Japanese school uniform? Most rules state that the skirts have to be below or hit the knee. So, unlike all those crazy anime where you see girls wearing sorry-ass excuses of mini-skirts for school uniform skirts, really the uniforms are very decent.
I blame the media. And sorry-ass men who can't even get a date and have to take out their frustration on defenseless girls.
YES I have seen real Jap girls with uniform, and YES they remain **** hot.
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uhhhhh....yea
damn I hate hearing news like this (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
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interesting yet sad, y is it only in japan, any other countries find same findings?
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interesting yet sad, y is it only in japan, any other countries find same findings?
yes..I'm pretty sure there are pedophiles and murderers in every country, not just Japan..
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true true..although at my school there still are quite a bit of girls who wear it very short despite it being against the rules..you see it at other schools around here too, they think it's cute...the rules are not strictly enforced even at private schools
however none of the schoolgirls have huge blue eyes, big boobs and blonde ponytails..damn anime brainwashing our youth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
NO BLUE EYES, BIG BOOBS AND BLONDE PONYTAILS?! WOW I'VE BEEN LIVING A LIE. dang the anime...
anyways...why is it focused in just one country nonetheless the crime is terrible
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Wow... The world's getting scarier and scarier for children. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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Wow... The world's getting scarier and scarier for children. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)