Sep 28 2007
Is this where the school days writers get their inspiration from?
After reading Kurogane’s postI decided to take a look at Mainichi Daily news and found articles very relevant to yesterday’s episode:
The teenager is suspected of stabbing his mother to death at their home in Aizuwakamatsu at about 1:30 a.m. on May 15, as she was sleeping, and then sawing off her head and right arm.
The boy stabbed the 17-year-old victim in the head and back with a kitchen knife on the premises of an auto repair garage…
A man arrested for slashing a high school girl on a street here has admitted his involvement in one of a few similar incidents in the area, investigators said. In the specific case for which he was arrested, Fukuda slashed a high school girl in the right thigh as he drove past her in a car on a municipal road in Midori-ku..
Yanai slashed the 8-year-old daughter of her 42-year-old boyfriend several times with a kitchen knife at his home in Nagara at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, leaving the victim with slight injuries, local police said.
At about 7:20 a.m., Ikeda slashed a 22-year-old office worker three times with a kitchen knife on a train on the Toho Line of the Sapporo Municipal Subway System, local police said.
Local police view the arrest as evidence that supports the credibility of the 15-year-old girl’s claims that he forced her into his car after threatening her with an ice pick and drove her around Shizuoka Prefecture with her hands tied.” I stabbed him because I thought he would murder me,” she was quoted as telling investigators.
Well anyway I think that’s enough to get the point accross. Someone in my SD post mentioned about the sanity of the writers…how about the sanity of the Japanese citizens? XD And here I thought Japan was fairly safe. 
21 Responses to “Is this where the school days writers get their inspiration from?”
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Freaking media always spreading the negative!! Where is the love!?
LOL oh god that song brings me back in the day
What’s the big deal about the Japanese citizens and stabbing and slashing with axes, knives, hacksaws and some sort of blades?
What? They’re too coward to carry guns like we do in the good U.S. of A? It’s quicker, you know. (which I don’t condone weapons, just point out the principle of the topic of violence).
here in brazil this week a man killed two boys and raped them
there is always some psyco anywhere we look
Ren90270: Actually it’s really hard (basically impossible) to get a gun in Japan. Source: http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html
@Ren: Because only cowards use guns. Blade-weapons require close-range use.
That, and the Japanese have some sort of fetish for swords.
Actually, Hinano, it’s the whole issue of “how the f*ck do you retell the same f*cking story without making it seem stale” issue.
Well, the big deal is that Japan is famous for its almost non-existent crime, so having this many murders and stabbings is a cause for alarm.
Japanese people have never been sane. The anime/manga industry is proof enough^^ However, I never thought of them being THAT violent.
It’s not enough to kill your mom, you have to saw off her head…wtf is wrong with them…
The figures here are really hard to believe:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_acq_percap-crime-acquitted-per-capita
However notice this below:
“Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.”
Guns are forbidden for common people in most Western countries, too, so that can’t make the difference. Obviously, giving them access to guns just increases the murder rate as the US shows. It doesn’t take much to shoot someone. Stabbing takes far more guts, it’s less likely to succeed and it also cannot really happen by accident.
That said, I’m pretty sure the press coverage of these events was primarily a result of the way they happened, the age of the culprits and the culprit-victim relationship. “Usual” murders are often only reported in the local press. However, teenage murders under odd circumstances happen all over the world from time to time. Also the media often give a misleading picture because they make a scandal of each and every event which gives the impression that world gets worse. In fact, violence is decreasing almost everywhere but the violence that still exists is sometimes getting extremer. Who would have heard about these cases outside of Japan about 10 years ago? Did anyone read about this in their local press or some news websites? Probably not. People simply have easier to access to such nowadays.
Let’s not talk about firearm~murder rate, because it’s a bit mired in controversy, and there’s no proof of it either way. Also you can’t accidentally murder someone, period.
The key point is that Japanese people commit crimes as often as any human race, but Japanese police is not exactly known for being tough on crime, at least when it comes to certain forms. Violent crimes tend not to be a problem, and obviously hate crimes are rare in a country that homogeneous. Just like how it’s a no-brainer why they have a high suicide rate compared to other countries.
I blame…… lack of good old school H-games! You know… the ones with wanton s8xx0r without plot. ;p
Oh yes, for all the harutards… this is what happens to loli in a bag.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/21/nation/18953287&sec=nation
Japan have VERY restrictive gun laws, unlike the USA were that it seem to they just jump off the boat and there is no civilization for miles, let alone government when it comes to gun control …
Its harder to get a hold of a gun in Japan, thats the only reason you see them resorting to knives and axes and what not. Its disheartening to see so much violence, but its hardly unique to Japan. This morning a high schooler with a gun in Cali had a standoff with police near his school. Yesterday, a kid brought a rifle to his uni in New York. Earlier in the week, a junior high schooler in Jersey brought a gun to his school. Those are only the few incidents that made the news in our post VT/Amish schoolhouse/Columbine world. If you take a serious look at the crime rates around you, the only place you’ll be safe is if you moved to a deserted island.
I know it’s been discussed to death by now, but regarding the point about sanity, the writers are Japanese citizens, too, no? Hmm….
No, but seriously, why do they need to propagate the atrociousness of the mentally deranged in a medium as easily accessible as television? (I’m assuming School Days airs on public TV in Japan?) I didn’t see any added storytelling benefit, but for me, it would have sufficed just to know that Makoto and Sekai got whacked, and Kotonoha went crazy.
I mean, animating taking a hacksaw to someone’s neck is already disturbing enough (yes, I know, it was just a PC game), but IMO what they portrayed in the anime, fiction or no, is on a whole new level of scary and horrifying. Just what we needed for a generation of already desensitized TV viewers!
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ひでぽん＞ そうだね。てゆかさいきん子供ってあぶないっすねｗ
そうだね。
でも、子供社会は大人社会の縮図
本当にあぶないのは大人だとおもいます（ｗ