A customer turned his favourite ear cleaning establishment into a scene of slaughter, killing the manageress and critically wounding the girl he so lusted after with knife and hammer.
In Japanese culture 耳かき / mimikaki, “ear cleaning,” occupies a special position, with many men attaching a strong and intimate significance to resting their head in the lap of a lady (“hizamakura”, lap pillow) who then cleans their ears with an ear pick. So much so that many establishments offer this experience for a fee.
In one such establishment, based in Tokyo’s Minato ward and operated by a 78-year-old lady and employing her 21-year-old granddaughter, a 41-year-old salaryman became a regular customer.
He would visit the ear cleaning parlour each weekend, spending as much as $4,000 each month to have his ears kept clean by the young lady. Soon it became clear that his interest in resting his head in her lap was based on more than just keeping his ears clean.
This culminated in him asking the girl out. She turned him down, and soon after the shop decided it had better bar him from the premises.
However, his infatuation was undiminished, and soon his mania degenerated into stalking, with police being called out.
His obsession soon took a tragic turn, for when next police were called to the establishment they found him covered head to toe in the blood of the two ladies, admitting “I stabbed them,” having apparently savaged the old lady and her granddaughter with a knife and a hammer.
The old lady died at the scene, whilst the girl remains hospitalised in critical condition, having not regained consciousness.
The man was immediately taken into custody and charged with the attacks.
The establishment in question is in fact part of a large chain which began in Akihabara; an hour of ear cleaning in such a shop costs about ¥5,000, which includes various massages.
However, no sexual services are normally offered at such establishments, and the girls working there treat it as normal work rather than an aspect of the sex trade, though as competition intensifies some establishments are now offering sexual services.
According to one writer familiar with the trade, “There is a good deal of contact, and patrons and girls can be on first name terms. Often the men who go there are more interested in the girls than in getting their ears cleaned, but dislike hostess bars.”
Many patrons are said to be shy young men, and the girls working in the trade complain of stalking being rife.
Via ZakZak.









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my ears itching all the time ... Japan is the medicine
I had my ears cleaned at a shop in Taiwan once.
No lap pillows though :(
Sounds similar to paying someone to wipe your ass for you... with a knife.
I lol'ed. Well, the thing is the guy was the murderer, not the girl. If the girl were the one to kill them, then it would work better the "wipe you ass with a knife" thing. Just IMO.
Indeed, getting your ears cleaned by someone else (my mom used to do that for me) is quite relaxing. Now this guy clearly took things way too far and well, we go this. I guess (well, catchy meme thing xD) it can't be helped.
That chick in the article photo is from, They Are My Noble Masters, that was a great anime. I recommend everyone go watch it.
i would recommend get a waifu or gf
though it would be hard do if the male dont earn enough...
and it is unlikely to a female that can cook and clean...
perhaps expectation on both sides need to be lowered...
ear dirtying service.
knife and hammer... good to see the gun control in japan working to such a great effect....AHAHAHAHA...
Keep Smiling ;)
it can't be helped
Some people just can't take no for answer or just can't handle rejections.
it can't be helped,,
May the old lady rest in peace
+2
Expand her business venture to the underworld, where she can't be killed by customers.
1x
ehhh i dunno. i keep on top of my ear schmutz and itz kinda gross. it'd be like havin a ho be up to the minute on washing my gooch. not a place i want her to be. unless she's got a taste for some dope rimjobbery.
Has anyone gotten their ears clean.... It feels really good. I guess that an Asian thing.
what's with all the "it can't be helped" spam?
An attempt to force a meme based on the story of the pedophile who uttered 'It can't be helped!' after he was caught molesting a 5 year old.
4000USD = 400 000k Japanese Yens.. that's a lot of money just to get your ears clean for a month.
The only logic explanation would be the girl was a Geisha (my thought anyway)
How sad. Psychos these days.
At least the girl didn't die. Hopefully she gets better.
lol that old lady just got pwned
Jesus god... Seriously what the hell...
Does anyone believe even half the stories posted on that site?
Believe it or not it was shown on various news sites,so it actually happened.
pretty sad.
Ear cleaning is not necessary as your ears have a natural "cleaning system", so to speak. Excessive cleaning of ears can lead to ruptured inner ear wall and subsequently ulcers, which may require expensive treatment, and may also cause cases of stalkers going berserk and cleaning the ear cleaner.
Thing is, my ears don't clean wax well and wax accumulates quickly in my ears. So I have to clear them once a week.
That said, let no other person, man, woman or child, clean my ears for me. My eardrums are too fragile and important to be entrusted upon someone else!
Have you noticed that very few criminals in Japan actually flee after they've performed the crime ?
they usually stay there and admit "yes, I did it".
LOSER!
LOFL!
Pretty damn extreme. Does Japan not have prostitutes!? WTF is wrong with Japan!? Why so many sex crimes, and murder over lust...? They have school girls to fuck, yet the are still unsatisfied. No wonder Japanese women have become so bitchy and uptight.
Crazy Japanese men! >_< They should just fuck legal aged prostitutes.
Ahh......This is the good-old Sankaku i'd been missing. Thanx for gettin your groove back, Artefact.
Way to ruin ear cleaning for guys.
psychopathic freak >.>
hope she lives =/
What a dumb-ass/asshole!
U.S.$4000.00 works out to be about $133.00/month, figuring 30-day months.
A quick Google turned up a deriheru place (http://deriheru-j.jp/price.htm) which charges 13000 yen for 60 minutes.
I don't read enough Japanese to know where it's located, but still . . .
Correction: $130.00/day
Correction to correction: $133.00/day.
$4000.. was probably rounded up..
:O..
My Japanese tutor once bought one of those earpicks for her American friend, and the friend, not knowing what it was, used it as a tea stirrer. XD
It was clean of course, but... ew.
A Q-tip would probably do more damage, because it would push stuff INTO the ear canal, and the wax may harden deep inside the canal.
With a sneeze, the person controlling the mimikaki tool - essentially a metal rod - could accidently punch it through the victim's eardrum and into his brain.
Ear cleaning - srs bsns?
It is, actually, if you don't want to lose your hearing. Though I prefer to clean my ears myself instead of trusting some other person with my eardrums, or god forbid, my cochlear.
That guy is gonna spend some time in jail now, probably year or two..
If he was a teached they would probably just lem him go, out of respect duh.
Ummm....he killed a person and nearly another...I think he`ll stay more than a year or two...-_-
maybe three,,,
Hmmm... it would be nice to lay one's head in a nice woman's lap and have her caress your head/hair (atama, not chinchin), and perhaps sing to you, also.
Don't want the ear-thing, tho.
Is there any deeper meaning behind the "otaku" tag, other than that he was "obsessed" with the girl?
A lot of the patrons are apparently otaku, and the shops started in Akihabara...
He's to be respected.
why? because otherwise he'll come after us with a knife and hammer?
It can't be helped.
kill it with fire!
I sense a new internet meme being born 8)