A hikikomori who carved up his brothers with a kitchen knife and then hanged himself after his twin brother dared to tell him to get a job has been highlighting the dangers of hikikomori interventions…
Police in Tokyo’s Suginami city learnt of the incident when they received an emergency call from an unemployed 75-year-old woman who reported that “my son is waving a knife around and stabbed his brothers!”
The catalyst for the incident was apparently the elder brother (45) lecturing his hikikomori sibling (45) and telling him to get a job, which caused him to fly into a rage and attack him. Their younger brother came upon the scene (42) and was then attacked himself.
Their mother lived in the same building and raised the alarm, and when police arrived they found the hikikomori had hanged himself, whilst his two brothers had been stabbed repeatedly and were in serious condition.
All three were taken to hospital, with the hikikomori being confirmed dead and the younger brother seriously injured, whilst the elder brother was so severely injured he remains unconscious in a critical condition.
The three brothers, the elder two of whom were twins, lived together with their elderly parents at the family home. Their father was not present during the incident, as he was receiving treatment at hospital.
Only the elder brother worked, although their parents were able to live comfortably off the rent they received from their numerous properties, and neighbours commented on how well maintained their residence was.
The substantial perils of interfering with a hikikomori’s isolation are by now well known amongst those who it might be thought make up most of the hikikomori population themselves:
“Another one of your comrades is dead!”
“You guys, try to die on your own without incident.”
“Telling a hikikomori to work, this is a novel form of suicide…”
“There must be a lot of families like this around.”
“An unemployed over-40 is not realistically going to be able to get a job any more.”
“Telling a hikky to get a job is just reckless!”
“Kill yourself at the start. Annihilating your siblings is too cruel to your parents.”
“At least it all ended in their household.”
“This is your future! Please don’t drag other people into it, though.”
“At that age, it certainly would not be easy for them to get a job.”
“They were twins… I can kind of understand wanting to kill your ‘elder’ twin for lecturing you on how you should be working.”
“Thinking like that just makes you a potential murderer yourself!”
“The unemployed are seriously worse than any yakuza. Their families need to take responsibility for them.”
“Someone like that has nothing to lose, you cannot be sure what they will do.”
“Three single forty-something sons living together with their parents? Ye gods, what a squalid scenario!”
“He had the guts to do this and then hang himself. Finding a job should have been easy. It almost seems a waste.”
“I’m a fresh graduate and I can’t even find work. Some 40+ hiki is never going to find a job, even part-time.”
“And all this was on a Monday morning, what were they all doing there!?”
“A house that size in Suginami, their parents must have been elite and very wealthy…”
“I’m 25 and I can’t find work. No way could he.”
“With no experience, at 45 he couldn’t even get a part-time job at a conbini.”
“It’s amazing really. With Japan the way it is now, it really is easier for a hikikomori to kill themselves than to find work.”
“This is our future, getting nearer…”
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"an unemployed 75-year-old woman"
As opposed to all of those employed 75-year-olds who are everywhere.
I know right? How do they expect the youth to find good work when the want people to work till they're dead!?
meh... we will all be replaced by robots soon
is that guy's name Satou?
are you Satou?
i'm Satou?
yay! Satous United
we're all satou
Satou!
welcome to the NHK!
No I'm the real Satou
Satou got a part time job in the end though :)
That guy is like those lazy wives that do nothing but eat your money.
:'D so good
You are forgetting about the part where he spontaneously combusts in sunlight. Or something along those lines.
Better than sparkling.
and when you ask them to work they will stab you with knife!! Joking I love my momma and my girlfriend
You know that you picked something really wrong when you mention the words "my girlfriend" and "ask them to work"...
he must be european!
The workers are overworked and a there is no jobs available for the others, here's a tought, make the work shift shorter and hire two people instead. I worked in the video game industry and crunch time is hell, the normal Japanese workers do that all year long. If I lived there I probably would become a hikikomori too or kill myself because I don't want to work 80 hours a week.
Shameful.
To turn a blade against your brothers, harakiri would not be enough.
Nice comment, Zura!
It's not Zura. It's Katsura.
Not unless your relatives (brothers/siblings) were hated enough to want to keeel them bad enough.
This is why some relatives of certain families are seperated by vast distances.
At reunions everyone is cordial and friendly, but later after a few drinks everyone remembers why they hate each other's guts, some will drag out old greivances and argue for the rest of the party occasionally there will be fisticuffs.
And every once in a while, someone gets killed - which you read about in the tabloids.
Some times its best to kill them now before it festers into a vendetta.
Like it was between House Harkkonen and House Atreides and epic vendetta that tore both families apart.
^_^
yeah thats why he hang-akiri himself... 2ch's neets must be mourning..
Think about it. There isn't enough work for everybody. But there is still enough wealth for everybody. Not everyone has to work anymore. Isn't this a convenient world we live in? We had all those inventions that made life a lot easier even making lots of jobs plain unnecessary. So now we have a world were there isn't even the need to have everybody working. But still.. everyone needs to go to school and everyone is supposed to get jobs THAT DON'T EVEN EXIST. what the fuck, man. wtf.
Love this post, its so true
the light at the end of the tunnel... what... i dont need to work..... get jobs that dont exist.... dont exist.... dont exist.... mhh maybe i should just dont care anymore.....
goes back to hikki shell.
aint i lucky... there isnt hikki where i live ... its called differently ^^ and thus a lot less "hated".
if this internet rage can be considered hate.
"it really is easier for a hikikomori to kill themselves than to find work"
lol!.. true.. not evry1 can kill themselves :s
>“An unemployed over-40 is not realistically going to be able to get a job any more.”
This. Having hope for the future is so last century.
get a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dead.
seriously? i think there is more to the story.
probably something like 30 years of shut-inness and groveling about the situation surrounding working oppurtinities... in his deepest slumb someone pressed the switch and boom ^^
and this certain someone was someone very close thus resulting in a more emotional problem. you can easily tell your friend goodbye... but your family as a hikki. wont happen so easily.
“An unemployed over-40 is not realistically going to be able to get a job any more.”
“I’m a fresh graduate and I can’t even find work. Some 40+ hiki is never going to find a job, even part-time.”
“I’m 25 and I can’t find work. No way could he.”
“With no experience, at 45 he couldn’t even get a part-time job at a conbini.”
Seriously, its the exact same here in Michigan. My dad lost his Job recently because the employers were morons and bankrupted the company. He's 56 with a Bachelors, there's no way in hell he'll find work! I'm 22 and I've been putting in Apps CONSTANTLY and I still can't get hired! Fuck the world.
If 3 brothers over 40 are living with thier parents, they most likley all have some form of social disability.
Eldest Brother probly manages the parents finances, thus thinks he is better than his other brothers and rubs it in thier faces by telling them what to do.
The man most likely snapped after his brother busted into his room, yelling at him to get a job, which the elder brother probly does a lot to show dominance.
The problem with hikikomori isn't that they are hikikomori, it's society refusing to acknowledge that those people need help, you just think they are weird or should go die. Most of them have had some kind of trauma which cause them to lose faith in humanity, or to hate other people outside of family.
My friend is kind of a hikikomori, he was in a tornado that destroyed half his town, he was trapped in his house for days because giant trees had fallen, surrounding his house. He was in a big neighborhood, yet while the news went on about how the town had come together as a helpfull society, no one bothered to check on the house surrounded by trees, until cadaver dogs showed up sniffing for dead bodies, 3 days after it had happened. He then had to go live with his sister under his power lines, and plumbing could be fixed, which he had no money to do so, and F.E.M.A. was giving him the run-around, saying he did not qualify for aid, even after a contractor had deamed his house unlivable, and totaled it. Until he could find a moving van to move his belongings out of his house, he had to leave them there, 5 days after the tornado, looters broke into his house and stole everything that wasn't nailed down. After 2 weeks of hassling police for information, they basically admitted they didn't do anything, and most likely would not to find the criminals. So, he lost his home, belongings, his dignity, and his faith in humanity. So he stays with his mom, whom his dad recently cheated on, just watching and re-watching any movie or anime that made him happy.
i can only imagine these... but
i think the others in your scenario have had a big trauma too independently of someone helped them or not.
it just may be that the others are showing the "scars" differently.
anyway... i can understand him.
Feels complicated man.
I'm a 29 year old shut in and I'm relieved to read this story. I'm not the biggest loser in the world. There are actually 45 year old shut ins out there. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you... just made me lol.
btw i am 26 year old shut in.
Work!?? no way i like gettin free money thx!
FIGHT THE POWER!!
"although their parents were able to live comfortably off the rent they received from their numerous properties,"
So in other words unlike most hikikomori he wasn't a strain on his parents bankbook. Whole incident was unnecessary.
He still could have earned his keep by helping to do maintenance work on those properties fixing things keeping the landscape in shape etc.
rqlia hikikomori's pajeros acaban rayando en la locura
Being an asian guy, where a small penis is not accepted, it makes you do funny things like stay shut in and afraid to go out. That being said, its not surprising that asians have a high hikkimori rate, myself included.
Well, now everyone knows why this guy couldn't hold down a steady job. Because he just can't handle contructive criticism. >_>
ey yo motherfucker get to work for 40-80hours for an increase in 700 from allready 600 making it 1300.
thats what some ppl call constructive critic.
i am afraid to tell.. but especially shut-ins are not that good at receiving those kinds of criticism while the workers get treated like princesses.
I did not. :/
I think this could be chalked up to that lost decade of stagnation Japan had for pretty much this entire time. Old grandparents giving away their years of savings to kids who see little opportunity to be self sufficient get stuck in this rut for a little too long.
I'm a NEET! I at least come out of my room!
Ban manga and anime!
do you work for equality now?
equality now? you mean those extreme feminist that wants to restrict anime? lol