JAPANESE police arrested a 17-year-old boy today on suspicion of murdering his mother after he attended a police station carrying a severed human head in a bag. Police in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima prefecture, 200km north of Tokyo, said they arrested the teenager, a student at a local high school, after officers found a beheaded body in the apartment where he lived. The boy told police he killed his mother yesterday evening while she was asleep, Kyodo news agency said. "If it's true, then it is horrendous," the government's top spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki, told reporters. The boy had not been attending school recently and was being treated by a psychiatrist, Kyodo said, adding that he had told investigators: "It would be good if terrorism and war were gone from this world. I didn't care who I killed." Kyodo said today was the mother's birthday and she would have turned 47. The boy was living with his younger brother in the apartment, away from their family home, so they could attend schools in the area, and the mother would often visit at weekends and wash their clothes, Kyodo said quoting neighbours. In 1997, the nation was shocked when a 14-year-old schoolboy was arrested for the murder and beheading of an 11-year-old boy and leaving the boy's head next to a school gate in the western city of Kobe. While government statistics show that overall juvenile crime and murder by minors - those under 20 - have been on a decline in recent years, a number of sensational crimes has led to calls for harsher punishment against young offenders. Following the Kobe murder, the age at which youths could be sent to reformatories was lowered to 14 from 16 in 2001, and a Bill to further bring the age down to 12 passed the lower house of parliament last month. In 2004, an 11-year-old school girl killed a classmate by stabbing her in the neck with a knife, and the year before, a 12-year-old boy murdered a four-year-old by pushing him off the roof of a garage.
Yuck, his own mother! He's reallysickl if his reason to kill anyone was frustration about the war/terrorism in the world. And it's not like the Japanese are getting this war stuff on their plate n daily basis or so! Hardly seen any foreign news in their newsbroadcasts.
That is so sad. The poor lady practically loves her children and this is what she gets!? Hope that kid rots in jail...
That is so.. sad doesnt even begin to describe it... I'm speechless.. To kill your mother is already messed up, but to go a step further and sever her head from her body..? ...crazy.
Yes, Japan is going the wrong way. I always thought that the Japanese have the same values as Chinese, but after reading this news message ...
for him to get psychiatric help i wonder if he had problems or j=his mother has done anything to them
that is so fucking sick murdering his mother on her birthday must have been watching a lot of sick japanese films and animes he's a nutter
Hmm, there is a possibility the mother may have emotionally and physically abused the kid? Until he became disturbed and mentally unstable enough to commit that?
