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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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?
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
Elric brothers did burn their house down as they did leave from their village.
The only question left...Is his father a good-guy or an Asshole?
Only way to start fresh right? Kappa
Loved that comment.
Could be his split personality that did it like Fight Club.
The only reason the Elric brothers burned down their because they failed to bring back their mother from the dead with Alchemy.
Also Record of Lodoss Wars.
He ended his hikikomori lifestyle like a boss.
And so, the Hikikomori went off and got his state alchemist license.
probably should have sold it if he really wanted rid of the place.
You should be able to talk to people to do that...
aye, but a spoiled brat wouldn't know how it goes..
Irrefutable logic. No house = no hikikomori.
But wait. Does that turn him from a shut-in into a shut-out? Apart from him being yet again shut-in in prison or a psychiatric ward.
Somebody will try to get him out of his home. So he burned it, and after that he got 2 ways- to prision or to coffin, both pretty comfortable.
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.
Want... to burn... my house!!
Want... to burn... your house... too!
i somehow find it disturbing that in japan they want to blame it on him as a crime and not approve of his mental illness.
Guess mental illness is something japan doesn't want to hear about
so what are arson charges?
I never heard of it.
The criminal charge for burning shit.
Just google it.
this man has balls, going out in a blaze of glory!
ok I need to be shot sorry ;_;
god dammit sancom always signs me out at random times...
Teach hikikomoris how to lucid/conscious dream! :D
A lucid dream is a dream, in which, you know that you're dreaming, while you're still in the dream. The existence of lucid dreaming is a fact, it was proven by science, by Stephen LaBerge.
Lucid dreaming is total freedom, but you can achieve it, and control dreams, only with some practice. But hikikomoris have enough time, I think. The time needed, to have the first lucid dream, after the beginning of the practice, is variable from person to person, it can take 1 week, a month, or 3 months. In a lucid dream, you can do anything that you can imagine - with the realness of waking reality - without real consequences. Many people are using it, to have fun, and to experience awsomeness.
What you can also do with lucid dreaming, is getting in touch with your subconscious. Everything in your dreams - the environment, dream characters, situations - are representing you. You can analyse these, and ask questions from the dream characters, or from the dream itself. It can lead to beneficial realizations about yourself.
Facing with challenges, nightmares, fears, or undesired situations, while you're "lucid", can be beneficial too, you can overcome your fears that way, without real danger.
The favourable points for hikikomoris about lucid dreaming are: it is more real than any of the mmo's or other games; you can learn how to do it, by reading the internet; you don't need to buy anything; you don't need to go anywhere, to practice it; you can learn it alone; you don't need to go out, to "go out".
Check Lucidipedia.com for more information!
There are people with mental disorder that views one of their own limb as undesirable and they have it amputated.
The room is a part of hikkikomori and he went to remove it from himself.
Hikikomori essentially translates to severe social anxiety disorder in English for those that don't know, and is often linked with Asperger's as well if I'm not mistaken.
You don't ''pursue'' a mental disorder.
The sad fact that people take serious issues so lightly is why those suffering go without treatments in the first place.
Japan should develope hikikomori help system.
I'm slightly disappointed that no one died.
It's not too late to change your hikikomori ways! :D
It doesn't help him. Instead of being locked up in the house he'll be locked up in a cell, w/o his overclocked computers and mmo's
Was his name Edward Elric?
I can follow his reasoning. It's not sane, and I really think this guy should get help rather then jail. Jail will likely only fuel the anxiety. One of the largest obstacles with severe social anxiety can often be actually asking for help. Putting one's own home on fire/hurting others/doing irrational things one know is wrong can sometimes still be easier to do then putting trust in someone and asking for help.
Hikikomori logic
Burn house, become homeless, die.
Profit???
Iinbou da!
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.
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.
Well at least this guy decides to move forward........something I can't yet.
Same here.