- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 11, 2010 03:28 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chiba, Crime, Food, Guro, Mental Illness, Murder, Police, Suicide, Theft

A prisoner has committed suicide by thrusting chopsticks into his own eyes.
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Sleep experts report that almost 8% of their patients reported engaging in sexual activity with their partners whilst asleep, an unusual sleepwalking condition dubbed “sexsomnia.”
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The Japanese government has published research suggesting 80% of the nation’s hikikomori may be mentally ill, with two thirds of those diagnosed having such serious conditions as schizophrenia or mental retardation.
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The Japanese media have increasingly been raising concerns that Japan’s younger generations are no longer the bastions of mindless consumer capitalism they once were, with potentially dire consequences for the nation’s economy; a psychiatrist has even gone so far as to say this is a result of mass schizophrenia.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 19, 2010 19:23 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Bizarre, Crime, Hikikomori, Internet, Mental Illness, Money, Murder, Otaku, Shopping

The bizarre case of a hikikomori who went on a berserk killing spree after losing his Internet access, slaughtering his defenceless baby niece and killing his own father, was in fact far stranger than anyone save the family realised – it appears the hikikomori had taken control of the family completely in order to satisfy his obsessive compulsions, finally destroying them when they rebelled against his domination.
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A father who raped his 4-year-old daughter has been let off after courts accepted his excuse that he was sleepwalking.
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A 34-year-old hikikomori smashed his father’s skull with Buddhist altar equipment, killing him.
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Japan’s hikikomori population now has the dubious distinction of having inspired an overseas horror movie, “Haunted Room.”
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A man has been arrested after he was found to be carrying the now liquid remains of a child in his backpack. He claimed the child was his and that he had been carrying everywhere he went for the past 5 years or more.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 8, 2010 04:30 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crossdressing, Education, Loli, Medical, Mental Illness, Saitama, School, Shota

Japanese schools are struggling to accommodate skyrocketing diagnoses of “gender identity disorder,” which have seen boys as young as 8 attend school clad in skirts and said to be “girls.”
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Why do so many men say they want to become women?
Yuu Mental Clinic, an accredited psychiatric clinic, provides an explanation of this facet of male psychology in manga format with the aid of doctor Ryo Shinnai and nurse Asuna Kangoshi, translated below:
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Hikikomori asked what they would do if their parents, for most their only source of income, were to die overwhelmingly gave responses such as “commit suicide” or “starve to death.”
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