A reminder , we continue with the consensual homicide month so a trigger warning is in place - this case in particular focuses on Japanese culture of suicide, and the whole case revolves around suicide pacts. So please refer to timestamps below as usual, if you find particular points triggering.

Between August and October 2017, Takahiro Shiraishi used Twitter to lure suicidal women to his home, saying he can help them die.

He strangled and dismembered eight women and one man, only to opt in for the assisted suicide defence. In this case, the victims will get justice but this crime might just show how some killers can exploit the cultural ideation of suicide, BAMN.

What were his motives?

To watch on YT: https://youtu.be/iuniK_FhuyU

0:00 - 3:00 - The 'you will get that job' intro

3:00 - 5:58 - expression of the day

5:58 - 15:33 - Facts on suicide in Japan

15:33 - you drop - the case of the Japanese Twitter killer

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Sources:

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/no+rhyme+or+reason

https://www.englishforums.com/English/OriginNeitherRhymeReason/wpkgz/post.htm

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/301500.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/28/asia/japan-suicide-women-covid-dst-intl-hnk/index.htm

https://www.statista.com/statistics/622065/japan-suicide-number/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan#cite_note-:0-8

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-japan-s-suspected-serial-killer-went-from-quiet-child-to-sex-trade-scout

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55313161

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan

https://allthatsinteresting.com/takahiro-shiraishi-death-penalty

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946625736/japans-twitter-killer-sentenced-to-death-in-killing-of-9?t=1617271510212

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/06/national/crime-legal/death-sentence-twitter-killer-japan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahiro_Shiraishi

https://www.9news.com.au/world/takahiro-shiraishi-how-twitter-killer-lured-his-victims-and-was-caught-by-police/99c9c25e-380f-42d3-a544-f239b359cf45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSSJedxi76s

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japans-twitter-killer-drops-death-sentence-appeal

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-the-mind-of-a-serial-killer

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/national/crime-legal/no-zama-mass-murder-trial-yet/