Hikikomori Murders Father Rather Than Face World
- Categories: News
- Date: Jan 8, 2009 19:55 JST
- Tags: Chiba, Crime, Hikikomori, Murder, Otaku, Schoolboys
A schoolboy hikikomori who shut himself away from the world became so disquieted at the prospect of ending his hermit lifestyle, after his father resolved to help him by ending his hikikomori lifestyle, that he stabbed him to death.
The boy (17), who was attending a correspondence high school, had apparently shut himself in several months previously, but his father (54) objected and resolved to break his isolation.
However, this had tragic consequences, as his son evidently could not abide the prospect and one day took a kitchen knife and stabbed his father in the back; the deed done, he called 119, saying bluntly “I stabbed my father in the back with a kitchen knife”.
Police soon arrived and arrested him on the spot for assault. His father was conveyed to hospital but died all the same, and the charges were soon elevated to murder.
Clearly this is an example of hikikomori behaviour taken to tragic extremes, although of course we do not hear of what sort of actions the father was taking – it is not unthinkable that he was behaving in an extreme manner too, though of course this hardly justifies patricide.
Via ZakZak.
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Yeah... He clearly has other underlying psychological issues which led to this unfortunate incident.
Watch the media use this occurrence to generalize all hikikomori into would be killers.
Helping profession like Psychologist and Counselor should be given more attention. There are simply too much people in need and it is just way lack of man power to deal with such people.
Take them out. No matter the cost. Make them face the real world and learn to live with it.
Everyone else has to.
ah, the wonders of equality.
Freedom and liberty comes with the added clause of responsibility to be a productive part of society, not live off your parents and refuse to go to work claiming self-diagnosed Assburgers. Nothing's free in this life, and if they want to live isolated from the civilization that's keeping them alive let them move to... I dunno, Tibet? The jungles of South America? the Moon?
I wouldn't mind losing them to wild animals though, so perhaps... Jungles of India? Or the Savannahs of Africa.
Everyone is entitled to live however they want as long as it's legal.Freedom comes with no such clause. Society keeps nobody alive.
You seriously believe that?
Shieeeeet
we see garland trollan
There is no duty to society...every person lives for themselves and should be able to do as they wish as long as they don't infringe upon the rights of others to do the same...
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill your father.
Only live your life as it is, not bound to anything.
Narcissist...that sounds like some corrupted monk shit...
Narcissist's comment only makes sense if it's ironic
Narcissist is quoting from a Buddhist koan which was mentioned in The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, written by Yukio Mishima - a celebrated author in 60s Japan who was a repressed gay masochist; and who kidnapped an army general and committed seppukku.
Quite apt for an article about people with psychological problems...
Narcissist is win.
"Freedom and liberty comes with the added clause of responsibility to be a productive part of society,..."
Yes, you too can be free as long as you do what we want.
Wait what?
Freedom and liberty are overused words. The society you describe is money driven instead of rule driven like communism for example.
However it is certainly not driven by freedom and liberty.
Narcissist is win, end of story
indeed. a person dies for every hikikomori that faces the real world.
trollan
Another dumbass who thinks he's a doctor. You assume Hikki's are just lazy people who don't want to work in society. Shows how little you understand of the world. You really have a glib understanding of everything, don't you? Everything is either black and white in your world. Did ever consider these people may have other afflictions, as well? Do you think this comes from laziness or lack of focus? Think before you spout off things you don't truly understand.
;_;
well, everyone needs to face their devil sooner or later, this guy just make his devil become bigger
see if this dude worth saving or not, can he bear the burden of killing his own blood related father?
also... artefact, do you have english translated japanese newspaper? because i'm getting sick of this sad news about japan.
and its the beginning of 2009! cmon!, give us a happy news >.< (long lost parent met their son/daughter or something like that)
Tragedy and suffering, the bizarre and the prurient, are what people want to read about, did you not notice what fills the average newspaper?
And those are the news I actually like reading x_x
Sad but true.
I appreciate your selection of news, as bizarre as they sometimes seem. It's honestly stuff I'd never find or look up for myself, so thanks for the work you do to bring it to us.
I actually enjoy them. They are quite i-ndepth sometimes and make you skeptical about some things about Japan (I don't want to discredit this wonderful country of course).
we humans are sick :)
at least the kid will got his wish, he'll be a hikki for a long time.
More like getting mentally and physically raped in jail then returns to society as a manic.
Indeed, he's either gonna find his balls in jail and be a real man, or which is far more likely of the two as anon#2? says, he will end up being one insanely demented maniac whom won't be able to function in society, as opposed to what he did before and was unwilling to.
He can now be hikki in prison w/o anyone helping him to fix his life
this is more manslaughter than murder. but its a shame. there is a wonderful world out there and people are not experiencing it.
Wonderful? eww...i'd rather live on the moon if I could.
Former hikki here. I can understand the feelings of not wanting to leave the safety of one's room but this is too much. I fully support Aso's idea.
If I may ask, what was your primary motivation or inspiration to leave the hikki lifestyle? Perhaps wisdom from former hikkis would be best to help Aso's movement.
Indeed it would, as that's what the best counselors are made of, people that lived the lifestyle and had to escape it.
its boring isn't it? watching everything happen in TV and internet
think of the chances that sh*t could happen to you in real life if you were outside, in the society
that's why live outside were never boring, because sh*t happens!
and feels good doesn't it? to overcome the sh*t
Not sure if it is really boring to be honest. I feel alot safer sitting alone staring at a wall than actually going out and having to deal with people. I mean, it is easy to think "Hey, go out and have some fun," but along with that comes intense social anxiety in some. Last time I went out with friends I actually got physically sick and vomited from the pressure. Even though they are people I have known for years and years it still gets to me quite often. Honestly, I would rather be lonely and spend the time at home reading a good book (reading Atlas Shrugged for the third time >_> ) than going out and risking some of the awkwardness to be had outside. Thankfully I recognize this fault in myself though and force myself to leave the safety of my home once and awhile.
"Atlas Shrugged for the third time"
It's no surprise you're impervious to boredom then.
Surprisingly it is my favorite book to date.
Poor kid. Poor father.
...I can kind of relate. Under that much pressure, especially in the Japanese school system, where children are expected to prepare for adulthood from birth, somebody is going to crack. Not to mention the "shame society" aspect, where if the best, most motivated kid fails even slightly, it will be considered unfathomably degrading. By the kid himself, too.
Add the family problems that usually occur in adolescence, and you've got a recipe for a pressure cooker.
Hikkomori--The movie--
-I will burn all your manga and anime!
-Father! (turns)
-This is my answer, damn you!
-Ahhhhhhhhhhrg
fuck yeah, shut in isolation forever in jail is the best hikki lifestyle ever
Although it doesn't justify his actions, I do find it interesting that he called in .. if it was immediately after stabbing his father, that would be even more interesting.. I do think he should be punished but I do wonder about him because it wasn't anyone else or his father that called in but himself..
I'm a NEET, and was a hikikomori, but i would never do something like that. I don't think it has a lot to do with hikikomori, that guy just has some serious problems !
"State plans to force hikikomori into tax-paying occupations may prove more dangerous than might be thought…"
My thoughts exactly.
Rest in peace.
Must...resist...urge to troll...
Why do so many feel that hikikomori should be dragged outside and forced to contribute to society? If they want to be left alone, I say let them. Many of you say they have to face the real world some day, but you forget the reason they forced themselves into isolation in the first place; they faced the world once before and couldn't handle it. Society is a cruel and malicious thing to some. If they don't want to deal with it, why make them?
However, the issue of getting free money from the gov't is a problem, I'll agree. Most governments should simply stay out of citizens' economic matters unless the person is physically disabled.
>>The boy (17), who was attending a correspondence high school...
He 'visited' high school although his compulsory schooling was over, so he actually was a contributing member of society by producing education and future work possibilites. Why would the government want to drag him out of his lifestyle? I thought they only were after the NEETs. Not to say that all NEETs are useless for society, there are other ways to contribute to society than paying taxes, you know. And there are also ways to contribute negatively to society which can easily offset the taxes people pay...
Poor father, he probably only wanted to help him and was quite desperate himself. I guess both of them failed at trying to understand each other's motives.
If he was attending non-compulsory school, then he's technically not really a hikikomori..
It's almost scary how accurate I was on a comment made somedays ago at DannyChoo.com
http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/12661/Hikikomori.html#comment438185
Ah, I remember that comment. Yeah, it's rather scary how accurate it was.O_o
I sense bullying and not fitting in with your peers. High school and adolescence is rough if you don't exactly fit the mold. I feel for the family...that's a double tragedy.
Is 119 like the Japanese version of 911?
911 in japan is the number to call Pizza Hut xD
Yes, 119 is the basic emergency number in Japan.
Even moreso. 119 is the International emergency number.
It's not that Japanese or Europeans are different. It's the Americans trying to stand out. >_>
wow...he really didn't want to go outside.
one thing I learned in life is never to judge other peoples actions according to your perceptions.
Everyone has their demons. We all have our breaking point. Maybe he reached his.
I do feel sorry for him though. He's only 17 years old. His best years have yet to come. His whole life is ahead of him. If only he can see it.
Now it's all gone. Why must peoples only realize things when it's too late.
I guess the kid *really* didn't wanna go out. lol
A bad way to state it, but... the kid'll have many years to think about the stupidity of burying the hatchet.... err, kitchen knife with his father.
Hikkikomori - 1..... Parental intervention - 0.
Hikkikomoris need to be taken out of their rooms slowly u.u its s serious psychological condition, not pure laziness
I'm a hikikomori.
its sad that all you kids with no jobs are pro hikikomori :(
Gragh! I'm against everything everyone says because they're unintelligent weirdos, and they're not qualified to say anything about whatever! Wake up people, someone died from this, your views on how stupid someone is because you disagree with their speculation really comes down to an inane mass of ignorance. We're arguing about laws of society and whether or not something is a psychological problem. A son murdered his father because that father tried to help him. Whether or not he's just lazy, the father died. You're missing the point by arguing semantics.
people seem to forget hikkomoris that suffer from depression,get abnormal thinking.
Meh but if you are depressed anywhere you can have quite some problems in life.Like faulty thinking by making mistakes not deciding right.
The only way that prison is compatible with a hikikomori lifestyle is solitary confinement..