Wanted to Kill Someone

Motivation was simpler than in a case in San Diego 1979, in which the assaulter told the reason as “I don’t like Mondays.” Local police of Nagasaki prefecture arrested sixteen-year-old high school girl with a suspicion of murder in Sasebo city. She admitted that she had beaten and choked her close friend to death and told that her motivation was “I wanted to kill someone.” Unclear whether or not silicon chip in her head got switched to overload, anybody could see no reason.

The girl killed her friend in her room at Saturday night, and victim’s body was cut apart at head and left wrist. There were other scars at where the murderer tried to cut down. When police found the body in the room, the victim was laid down on a bed and some tools were around it. The victim had told her parents to visit the room a week before, and planned to get back home around seven. Her parents asked police to search her around eleven and it was past three when policemen broke into the room.

Those girls had been friends each other from the time of mid-school. Their high school teachers did not realized any trouble between them. The suspect has shown no regret on her murder. Some told her character as easy to be excited. She caused a trouble in her sixth grade when she infused breach and chemicals in lunch dishes of the classmates, because she was frustrated with her teacher.

She lost her mother last October and her father was married another woman afterward. The suspect showed to one of her friends that she wondered whether her father was thinking nothing about late mother. She was living alone in a room of apartment house, where the murder happened, after her father’s marriage. She attended her class only three days in the first semester.

In Sasebo city, there was another murder between classmates of the sixth grade ten years ago. The educational community has been working hard in teaching preciousness of a life to students. The Board of Education of the city was disappointed with the same thing happened. Looking at things appeared so far, nobody except the murderer was responsible for the case.

It is clear that human lives got lighter than ever in Japanese society. After former Prime Minister, Jun-ichiro Koizumi, introduced the policy to divide the society between the haves and have-nots, there appeared growing number of people who killed themselves. The weak cannot have hope for their future in this society lacking sense of equal opportunity. The strong defeats the weak forever. If a desire to kill people had a reason, that should be a protest against merciless society many adults created. It is not about education, divorce or friendship, but apathetic crime against humanity as Hannah Arendt indicated.