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JAPANESE SEX Murders

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1966

1967

Kashiwa

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Racism has played a role in various serial murders, but none more pathetic than the case of a 16-year-old auto mechanic arrested at Kashiwa, near Tokyo, in January 1967. Unidentified in the press because of his age, the prisoner's mother was Japanese, his father a black American soldier killed in the Korean war. The boy's mother subsequently married another American and moved to the United States, leaving her son behind in the care of relatives. Shunned by other children as a half-breed, ridiculed for his appearance, the boy grew up wild and undisciplined, with a record of thievery beginning in junior high school. One of his teachers recalled that the youth "had a complex about his color," and he quickly learned to despise females since, in the words of the Japanese press, "every young woman laughed at him with scorn." His answer to that scorn, between December 1966 and January 1967, was a spree of rape and murder, claiming three victims in different towns over a six-week period. Arrested January 27, he confessed his crimes and offered detectives the only available motive. "I hate my hair and skin," he said. [ReadOn]

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