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Life appears to have turned the circle for Japan's "celebrity cannibal" Issei Sagawa, who tells Shukan Shincho (2/23) there's something eating him.
Sagawa's sorrow stems, it seems, from having made himself unemployable by cashing in too much on the notoriety he gained for cannibalizing a Dutch woman in Paris back in 1981.
The fiend who not only avoided prison time for his monstrous meal but managed to sashay his gruesome act into a celebrity career that left him with as much of a taste for luxury as he had displayed for human flesh.
But now, as free as ever, Sagawa-kun -- the cannibal killer is nearly always referred to in Japan using the diminutive "kun" usually reserved for young (and largely innocent) men -- is struggling to come up with his next meal. And that's legitimate foods and not the type of dish he partook of, creating headlines that sent shockwaves across the world 25 years ago.
"It was even harder to accept because he was the son of a very prominent businessman in Japan. He made it very difficult to be a Japanese in Paris at the time," a correspondent for a major Japanese newspaper at the time of Sagawa's cannibalistic carnage tells Shukan Shincho. "He was eventually judged insane and in 1984 returned to Japan and put into a mental hospital, where it should have finished."
But, exploiting a loophole, Sagawa walked free just a year after his return to Japan and promptly began selling himself to the public.
"There were problems with his behavior that stem from around then. It might have been cute that he started writing for magazines and appearing on TV. But then he appeared in a number of adult movies and went around saying things like 'White women taste great,'" a legal beat reporter says. "Writing a book about the killing just showed a total lack of decency."
Sagawa complains that the past quarter century has not been an easy one for him.
"My parents, who went through so much, passed away on consecutive days in January last year, my father on the fourth and mother the following day. I was being chased by debt collectors at the time and had fled into hiding in Chiba Prefecture, so, unfortunately, I couldn't see them before they died," the cannibal tells Shukan Shincho. "The funerals were put on by my father's old company, so I wasn't welcome. I had to watch from a closed circuit monitor set up in a different room."
Sagawa moans that he's hardly got enough money to feed himself.
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Sagawa's sorrow stems, it seems, from having made himself unemployable by cashing in too much on the notoriety he gained for cannibalizing a Dutch woman in Paris back in 1981.
The fiend who not only avoided prison time for his monstrous meal but managed to sashay his gruesome act into a celebrity career that left him with as much of a taste for luxury as he had displayed for human flesh.
But now, as free as ever, Sagawa-kun -- the cannibal killer is nearly always referred to in Japan using the diminutive "kun" usually reserved for young (and largely innocent) men -- is struggling to come up with his next meal. And that's legitimate foods and not the type of dish he partook of, creating headlines that sent shockwaves across the world 25 years ago.
"It was even harder to accept because he was the son of a very prominent businessman in Japan. He made it very difficult to be a Japanese in Paris at the time," a correspondent for a major Japanese newspaper at the time of Sagawa's cannibalistic carnage tells Shukan Shincho. "He was eventually judged insane and in 1984 returned to Japan and put into a mental hospital, where it should have finished."
But, exploiting a loophole, Sagawa walked free just a year after his return to Japan and promptly began selling himself to the public.
"There were problems with his behavior that stem from around then. It might have been cute that he started writing for magazines and appearing on TV. But then he appeared in a number of adult movies and went around saying things like 'White women taste great,'" a legal beat reporter says. "Writing a book about the killing just showed a total lack of decency."
Sagawa complains that the past quarter century has not been an easy one for him.
"My parents, who went through so much, passed away on consecutive days in January last year, my father on the fourth and mother the following day. I was being chased by debt collectors at the time and had fled into hiding in Chiba Prefecture, so, unfortunately, I couldn't see them before they died," the cannibal tells Shukan Shincho. "The funerals were put on by my father's old company, so I wasn't welcome. I had to watch from a closed circuit monitor set up in a different room."
Sagawa moans that he's hardly got enough money to feed himself.
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