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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i would gladly pay for such a service.
US$4000 And just for ears? I can clean it myself.
learn to convert better
"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."
Learn to read better.
Okay, Over $50/hour? That's 500.000 Indonesian Rupiah & that is STILL a LOT of money to waste.
4000$ a month = 4weeks 1000 each= they mentioned only weekends so in 2 days 1000$ = 20hours each 50$ wow, he must've been some president of a company to spend 1 grand in a week
oh no.. now all indonesian look like they can't afford cute girls to clean their ear for them..
No, you got it wrong ^^; I mean, for MY allowance, i can't afford it (even if i can, i won't do it anyway. Total waste of money).
But for rich people here, it's just the same as hiring a high class whore. 5,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah for one night.
Strange... Unless this specfic outlet charges exceptionally high rates for ear cleaning,
$4000 over $50/hour would give 80 hours...
Ear cleaning for 80 hours? How is that even possible?
80 hours, 8 days per month (assuming 2 days per weekend), so 10 hours a day?
I am surprised that he didn't lose his hearing...
He should be bleeding from the ears after 2 months...
I think it's about 33,000 yen per visit,this is too expensive
lol true $4000 is just too much just so you can put your head on some girl's lap every month lawl
You are willing to pay $40-50.. just to get your ears cleaned out ~_~...
maybe I am just really poor.. T _ T
IT CAN'T BE HELPED. Oh, the warmth, hurhurhur~.
o^_~) you understand the fetish,
it's not just being able to rest your head on the lap of a beautiful chick but having nap while a chick tickle your ears.
Wow... if this is a fetish... weird.
I come from an Asian family. And as such my mom does this to me every other week or so *Not anymore since I live on my own now*. Not once did I think it sexual... I guess resting on someone's lap could be intimate... but not when they have a wooden pick in your ear... I think some of these guy's need to find another way to pick up woman.
"And as such my mom does this to me every other week or so"
Your MOM!!! Not a "beautiful chick" <_<
Except your mom is sexy and you like
(w)incest....
Having your ears cleaned by a woman is incredibly relaxing.
I can get my ears cleaned by another for free though~
I would pay to get mine cleaned.
I'd pay the 50 bucks(5,000 Yen), as long as it's the grand DAUGHTER!
A cat is ok to...
Nyuu~
Fuck that, 78 years old happens to be right up my alley...
Yet another case of "I can't get a date mania"
Then I would be specially careful when dealing with you Ku_Fei, you seem crazy most of the times!
Lolz XD
I'll cut you (joke or is it?)
I usually clean my own ear with a ear pick, but I'd like to try out one of these ear cleaning places...
Mine tends to just fall out of my ear after a shower if I don't clean them for ten days or so.
ah that's nasty Dx
Anyways I would like to try this out some day seeing as I only clean out the wax rather than the whole ear.
I just use a qtip and scrape it out every couple of days.
LIVE WOMAN! LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's to be respected.
why? because otherwise he'll come after us with a knife and hammer?
It can't be helped.
I sense a new internet meme being born 8)
kill it with fire!
FAIL !
Japan is awesome
+1
^_^ thats sad and funny i LOL at the guy.
Those ear-cleaning picks always looked scary to me -- an accidental sneeze and you could be deafened, or killed!
The only person I'll let stick things in my ear is me; I use Q-Tips, and if I feel a sneeze coming on, I instantly _let go_ of the Q-Tip.
I feel sorry for those women.
The guy:
(a) built his life around his deluded fantasies, and,
(b) places zero value on others' lives.
Item (b) is what makes him a continuing danger to society -- he killed one person and nearly another because he had a temper tantrum.
He should be jailed for life with no possibilty of parole, or perhaps simply executed.
Supposedly the picks are well suited to Asian earwax.
Well said, i would tie him up and beat him with a hammer till he dies, or leave him at the verge of death until he dies on his own, so he can feel the pain he caused Ò_Ó Grrrr damm that asshole. Hope at least they use him as a bitch in prison...even though that wouldn't be enough punishment
He won't be a bitch in prison, sorry.
I love those ear cleaning tools they use, a Japanese girlfriend of mine had one, they are so much better than cotton swabs, and it feels amazing. While I can't justify $4000 a month, I would pay for 耳掻き every now and then.
I use cotton swabs a few times a week now. It not only feels great, but it keeps my in-ear headphones cleaner too, so I can hear the MP3 player better.
I put them in pretty deep and I wonder if someone else would dare to go deep as that and risk eardrum damage :)
Fuck!
Why do they murder just for this kind of stuff!
This is small time! Better kill someone if you are robbing a bank or stuff that would give you profit than a stupid unsatisfied impulse.
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...
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.
Ahh......This is the good-old Sankaku i'd been missing. Thanx for gettin your groove back, Artefact.
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.
LOSER!
Way to ruin ear cleaning for guys.
psychopathic freak >.>
hope she lives =/
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,,,
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.
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..
I've always wanted to drop by one of these stores.
I still remember how my mother used to do that for me when I was a kid. Anyone that has never experienced it doesn't really understand what it is. Even if you ignore the sexual aspect of it (which really doesn't exist) its probably one of the most comfortable and relaxing things you'll experience in your life. But because of it,the customer WILL start to feel a bond towards the "picker". It's not good that the man turned the business into a bloodbath, but I've seen people do worse for a lot less.
I used to ask my mother to do this even when my ears were relatively clean because it felt so good.
that stupid bastard must had an evil mom who didnt clean his ears in his childhood :(
but it does feel kinda good to get your ears cleaned :)
Not really. Mom tried once. It hurt. And I swore there's blood on the cotton buds. I refuse to entrust my eardrums on anybody ever since then.
Head in female's lap: relaxing.
Metal rod in your ear: worrisome.
I've been through life-threatening experiences with a few of my close friends, but it didn't make me "bond" with them (though it re-affirmed my confidence in their competence).
Humans are not baby ducks.
This
is
sick
Whoa...
I swear, EVERY day we get news of a wierd murder somewhere in the world...
I guess this is what makes sankaku complex all the more interesting xD
Cheers;
Nick
~ I often wondered about those Ear cleaning tools and how exactly the experience (actually) is...
~ I would like to try it... just once.
I've never in my whole life got my ears cleaned for me. Not even by my mother.
And I don't understand how this could be intimate.
Just imagine you have to clean the ears of someone... about to vomit.
When i go to Japan I should definitely try this.
Everytime I see mimikaki scenes at anime my nose starts to bleed XD
It's innocent, right?
It can't be helped~
I would never let someone stick something in my ear like that, no matter how romantic it's supposed to be.
Holy shit.
That being said, it sounds like an easy way to make money...
<3 V/P/Benisu
Benisu is <3, just a shame the news article isn't so nice.
one of the few fetishes i absolutely hate.
Agreed. I've got a lot of fetishes but this is definitely not one of them.
Why would anyone spend $4000 a month on getting their ears cleaned and where the hell was he getting that much money to use on ear cleaning in the first place? If it costs ¥5,000 for an hour then this guy had to be spending at least 2 hours there each day.
Japanese currency has no decimal system. That said, I refuse to spend what may seem to be 40 dollars to have my ears cleaned when I can do it myself.
I won't let the girl push some stick into my ear, but push my stick into her instead.
IT CAN'T BE HELPED!
It's sad, very sad. *giggles in background*
I wouldn't mind getting my ears cleaned out by a cute girl. It sounds relaxing.
Correction: I wouldn’t mind getting my ears cleaned out by Atma. It sounds relaxing.
Atma = cute girl
"some establishments are now offering sexual services."
I don't know about you but nothing turns me on more than a good ear cleaning.
“I stabbed them”
It can't be helped
"Often the men who go there are more interested in the girls than in getting their ears cleaned"
I never would have guessed. What kind of man would be more interested in women than having a stick in his ear.
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
May the old lady rest in peace
1x
+2
Expand her business venture to the underworld, where she can't be killed by customers.
Some people just can't take no for answer or just can't handle rejections.
it can't be helped,,
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 :(
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
pretty sad.
lol that old lady just got pwned
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.
How sad. Psychos these days.
At least the girl didn't die. Hopefully she gets better.
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)