6/22/2005

Ohhhh, the Japanese press is gonna have field day with this. It has all the elements of a good Japanese story: otaku boy, dead parents, Japanese “lost” youth.
Not much info yet….and it will have hard to get the facts because Japanese law protects the “privacy” of under 20 minors. Stay tuned.

15-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of killing parents
TOKYO, June 22 KYODO
A 15-year-old high school student was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of killing his parents, who were found dead Monday in their living quarters at a dormitory for construction company employees in Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward where the father worked as a caretaker, police said.
The police quoted the boy as saying, ”I killed both parents…I was ridiculed by my father, so I thought of killing him.”…