Cultural differences

I recently went on wikipedia to look up a few japanese phrases and came across a few stories about japanese serial killers. The first was the Otaku Killer. A deformed man who killed little girls and read a lot of comic books. I guess his forearms and his hands were fused together at birth.

Nevada-Tan an 11 year old girl that killed her best frined (and the subsequent outpouring of cult like images of her from the manga community. It is kinda a statement on the japenes eculture and its obseesion with fetishism. To be so far removed from an original experience that they may not sometime have th eproper respect for a given situation.

Another was this 14 year old boy who killed one of his classmates and was dubbed with the title the "demons rose".

I have to say that each murderer hsared the universal ( it seems) ritual torturing and killing of small animals aspect of their histories.

I think In a away the structure of japanese society did have a hand in the murders in that each of the killers sought an empoweremnt in that this was their sort of payback to the society that bred them ( this is another universal theme in that most serila killers felt feckless for most of their lives and at some point lashed out.

If you care to read any further on the topic the links to read about them are here"

Otaku Killer(yes his last name is mitazaki no relation);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki

Demons Rose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakakibara

Nevada Tan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-tan

I guess my point is that even though I feel that these murders were supposedly driven by japanese culture ( each urderer states at one point or another that it was japanese cultures fault) I feel that there are still somemver obvious universal aspects to each case. Also the involvment of the media and the cult like manner in which the media and the society have portrayed them.

It just goes to show I guess that a morbid sense of fascination seems somehow intrinsic to any society.

-Danny