You guys are just finding out about this? I've been obsessed with this guy for a while, I can't wrap my head around him. There's been several documentaries about him, I've seen them all and the best one was produced by an Australian TV station. The reporter gave his file to some type of expert criminal analyst (or something, I can't remember exactly what his profession was) and they didn't tell him anything about Sagawa, they just asked his opinion about what should happen to him after reviewing his file. He, of course, said that he should be put in an institution for the rest of his life and then off the cuff asked "So, where is he now?" and the reporter told him that he's living freely in Japan and he showed a horrified look on his face and said "My god ..."

251

United States1401 Posts

October 22 2009 02:32 GMT

#27

this...isn't right. why is necrophilia and cannibalism being celebrated? I guess he's untouchable because it happened in a foreign country? So disturbing and sad.

Hyperbola

United States2550 Posts

October 22 2009 02:33 GMT

#28

Hmmm...
I remember a proverb that is somewhat related to this situation:

"The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools."

Seems like a chill guy though. He hasn't eaten anyone since, has he?

qrs

United States3637 Posts

October 22 2009 02:40 GMT

#29

Unbelievable.

rredtooth

5464 Posts

October 22 2009 02:40 GMT

#30

i'm questioning whether the japanese actually understand what he did. there is no way a decent group of people could accept an individual after he committed that act. i would NOT let any children go near him and would not want him around in general. cannibalism, murder, necrophilia - i would think any one of them would warrant a life in jail. epic fail by the justice system and the part of japan's society that actually supports the man.

konadora

Singapore66358 Posts

October 22 2009 02:40 GMT

#31

old news

Megalisk

United States6095 Posts

October 22 2009 02:42 GMT

#32

In Japan, If it can be made into an anime, its legal.

NSANE.hydra

United States644 Posts

October 22 2009 02:43 GMT

#33

O______O

Fucking disgusting, I'm hard-pressed to think of how anyone could possibly even consider doing something like this. That fact that he isn't currently in some institution is insane.

Railxp

Hong Kong1313 Posts

October 22 2009 02:48 GMT

#34

old news is old.

To take a different angle at this, it looks like he has not killed ever since. Which means that if it was just a one time thing, and he does nothing illegal for the rest of his life, Japanese society has managed to subdue such a monster by spamming him with media attention and then re-integrate him into society as a food taster-reviewer. In that it is much more successful than the prison system in terms of re-offending rates and preventing further damage.

However, the family should have a say in what happens to him, instead of him getting off without penalty because his dad knows good lawyers.

Shauni

4077 Posts

October 22 2009 02:51 GMT

#35

On October 22 2009 11:32 251 wrote:
this...isn't right. why is necrophilia and cannibalism being celebrated? I guess he's untouchable because it happened in a foreign country? So disturbing and sad.

Dude, murder is the main crime here. Except for adding to the 'gross' factor, I don't see what's so bad about necrophilia and cannibalism. He should be hated because he took another persons life, not because he raped the corpse or ate it.

Antifate

United States415 Posts

October 22 2009 02:52 GMT

#36

Jesus Christ I was hungry before this.

Title led me to believe this was going to be an epic story of a guy surviving a ridiculous accident or something.

Polyphasic

United States841 Posts

October 22 2009 02:54 GMT

#37

my goodness,

pictures!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

+ Show Spoiler +

Funny how after she died, she doesn't look human anymore, but just like a doll.

MeNotHazy

6 Posts

October 22 2009 02:54 GMT

#38

Sagawa has nothing on this guy:

Andrei Chikatilo: For 12 years, this older man preyed on children in Russia, and while he confessed to as many as 52 murder- mutilations, it's believed that he committed many more. To some extent, what he did might have been influenced by tales his mother told about how his older brother had been cannibalized by Russian peasants driven insane by hunger, because he devoured parts of his victims in that kind of savage manner. After luring them away from train or bus stations into the woods, he would stab them, stuff their mouths with mud, rip at them with his bare hands, and chew off their genitals. He also gouged out their eyes or bit off their tongues, and he often carried their organs away with him. At his trial he was placed in a steel cage for his own protection, which made him look even more like a savage beast. The judge sentenced him to death and he was executed in 1994.

And this is what he looks like: