Hikikomori House Burner: “It Was The Only Way To Escape!”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 12, 2012 03:58 JST
- Tags: Arson, Bizarre, Crime, Hikikomori, Ishikawa, Mental Illness, NEETs
A hikikomori who concluded the only way to end his shut-in status was to burn his home to the ground is currently battling arson charges, on the grounds that he was insane at the time.
The 22-year-old unemployed hikikomori stands accused of dousing the ground floor of his abode in kerosene, stuffing his oven with newspaper as kindling, and then setting the whole place ablaze.
The 2 storey 70 square metre dwelling subsequently burned to the ground. Nobody was injured in the fire.
He has been charged with arson involving an inhabited building, charges he admits but denies responsibility for with the defence that he was afflicted with a mental illness.
In the opening hearing of his trial, prosecutors insisted he was culpable:
“The accused pursued a hikikomori lifestyle and himself said ‘I’ll continue being a hikkimori as long as I have my home,’ so there is no scope for denying the crime or his motives.”
On the other hand, his defence contends he was not culpable due to his crazed hikikomori status:
“He was in no way in a state to control his own actions.”
The trial continues, although online at least his resolve in seeking to leave his hikikomori lifestyle behind – without stabbing to death his family, at least – has won him admirers.
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What's with the motivational pic at the end?
What pic? I don't see any pic.
and so it begins.....
Attempt of brainwashing by the NHK.
Only if nippon hikikomori kyoukai really exists.
could have found himself a girlfriend and that would make him leave the house (or at least not living alone).
Finding a grilfriend in his Hikikomori state?
Online dating is an option, but would a girl even go out with him?
Considering that non-hikikkomori people already have problems getting a girlfriend the chances of someone that was afraid of facing ANYONE get a girlfriend are null.
Unless you live in some old anime where a cute magical loli from future comes to be your slave.
There's always world or warcraft... oops, only americans & koreans play that.
You forgot chineese and russians.
it's guild wars 2 now sorry, already clocked 150 hours AND NOT ASHAMED OF IT!
Loled. As if they don't have bread they should eat cakes...
christmas cake
so what are arson charges?
I never heard of it.
The criminal charge for burning shit.
Just google it.
lol
Someone's been watching Full Metal Alchemist.
oh, I didnt watched FMA, so maybe I dont understand the reference... can you tell me why? plz?
Elric brothers did burn their house down as they did leave from their village.
the main characters burn their house down so they can leave it behind.
So they wouldn't have a place to go back to, tempting them from moving forward in their lives.
Pahn does the same thing in Record of Lodoss War
and Tao in the Mysterious Cities of Gold
And Kenshin in Rurouni Kenshin... and... pretty much a ton of all kinds of characters
Then you should,its fuckin' awesome Ò_Ó
The only question left...Is his father a good-guy or an Asshole?
The only reason the Elric brothers burned down their because they failed to bring back their mother from the dead with Alchemy.
Only way to start fresh right? Kappa
Also Record of Lodoss Wars.
Loved that comment.
Could be his split personality that did it like Fight Club.
probably should have sold it if he really wanted rid of the place.
aye, but a spoiled brat wouldn't know how it goes..
You should be able to talk to people to do that...
so, from being a hikki at home, he will turn into a hikki in prison. Good job, idiot.
If he loses the trial its a jail cell, if he wins the trial its a padded white room. Either way he's going backed to being stuffed in a little room with no chance to escape.
I'm not sure if thats ironic or just sad.
No one said it couldn't be both.
I can only I respect him in some ways....
Yeah I guess, for being so determined, and not hurting anyone in the process.
Well, good luck to him...
Poor guy. He needed help and wasn't getting any or couldn't, and it was the only way for him to get out of the situation.
It's hard to understand being trapped like that, unless you're in their position. You can't possibly understand the mental anguish and problems these people are suffering. Calling people idiots and brats isn't going to solve the social issues they face.
Mental anguish? Suffering? Nah...
I pursue a hikikomori lifestyle, and I have no problems at all. Except for money, you never have enough of that stuff.
But surely, I am not suffering. (w/e you mean by that)
They feel trapped and helpless. They get stuck in the lifestyle, full of anxiety of the outside world. They get paranoid they are being judged.
They can't function normally, and become stuck. They want out, but they don't know how to get out of the lifestyle. This guy decided his only way to get out of the house was to burn it down. It was tearing him apart to the point where he snapped and made the best decision he could in his mental state.
I wouldn't confuse your "shut-in" status with that of a Japanese hikikomori. Regardless of what you do now, hikikomori are usually pushed into their lifestyle because they are afraid in the first place. They are failures in life and they don't want to (or rather, they can't) bring other people down if they go out because people will judge them for it. That turns into paranoia that they don't know whether or not to believe and... well... it's all downhill from there. Many of them know it's not the "right" thing to do, but when it's so possible to live like that when they've got parents to help them and/or a way to gather income easily without going out far (some work really really late at night)... well, why not indulge? And it goes further downhill until the day when they either freak out and do something rash because they're afraid of their lifestyle's future money prospects, their future social status, and/or of themselves... or they actually seek help and, in addition to seeking it, they actually get it properly.
He thought he will get free when he will destroy his house, good luck now whole world will be his closed house.
One would assume it takes more courage to burn down your own house than walk out the front door.
He probably hoped to win some money on insurance,
80% is too late to stop being hikikomori!
Unfortunately living at home is expensive,imagine even arranging a girlfriend?!
Jap whores are cheap, best to rent them by the hour than date one.
haha, some butthurt downvoted it. Butthurts can't handle the truth. In Japan 30 bucks gets you schoolgirl jap pussy. That's significantly less than the cost of a love hotel & a meal for two. And you don't have to "take responsibility" 9 months later.
Want... to burn... my house!!
Want... to burn... your house... too!
So when is this how to self destruct book going to be a top number 1 seller in Japan to be written? Sounds better than the hanging forest of death Japan has.