WARNING: The article linked to below is graphic and nauseating, especially if you’re digging into a chicken sandwich like I was this morning.
WHO’S HUNGRY? – PART 1 An Interview With Issei Sagawa, Cannibal
This was a hugely famous case in Japan (and all over the world I imagine – I was only 7 when it happened). An insane Japanese exchange student killed and partially ate a female student at the Sorbonne and not only got off scot-free in France, but also in Japan because the French authorities protected him. I was aware he was writing books during my long stay in Japan, but it never occurred to me that he had any kind of following. Rather, he seemed to be a source of shame to most Japanese I spoke with – one (ignorant) person even cited this case as a reason Yoshi Hattori might have been shot in Louisiana ten years later.
One of the tamer excepts:
“There’s no doubt in my mind that I want to eat human flesh again, though. I mean, it’s delicious stuff. It’s widely believed that human meat doesn’t taste good, but they only spread that rumor because it’s a taboo that can’t be crossed. If people found out the truth, I’m sure that men would all start eating women. So they don’t talk about it because it will create pandemonium, but I tell you, human meat is extremely tasty.”
You know what’s really fucked up? Everyone, including the perpetrator himself would have been better off if he’d been punished for his original crime… Instead, he roams free and is still profiting from his original crime. The Japanese should strip him of citizenship and send him back to France.
I’m on a no-red meat diet right now, and I’m not wanting to read the demented ravings of this guy. I agree, he should have been shipped back to France or maybe to New Guinea where some tribes still consider the human flesh and especially the brain to be quite yummy. You might get a bad case of kuru and develop Creutzfield-Jacov Disease, but at least you get to eat the best part of the corpse!
It’s widely believed that booting miscreants and sociopaths in the ass doesn’t feel good, but they only spread that rumor because it’s a taboo that can’t be crossed. If people found out the truth, I’m sure that we would all line up to take turns kicking Yoshi Hattori in the ass.
LOLZR
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Dontcha mean kicking the cannibal in the ass?
Or was the poor dead JP boy a miscreant?