Wed, Apr. 6th, 2005, 06:01 am
Nevada diary project: forward
Forward:
The case of the "Sasebo slasher" of 2004 made the news in Japan as one of the most shocking murders in recent times. An 11 year old girl, now known as Nevada (for the sweatshirt she frequently worn, or Nevadatan, as she's known online), slashed the throat and wrists of her classmate Mitarai Haruka with a box-cutter. She then returned to her homeroom, telling her teachers of what she did. All of this over squabbles of hearsay and teasing over the internet. Nevada is now in a girl's home in Nagasaki - because of her age at the time of the murder, she cannot be officially charged with her crime as she was under 14. She will be in the home until she is of legal age, 20. She has been enfolded and adopted throughout the internet as a goddess of guro, enshrined in image messageboards like
2chan.net.
These are her original diaries, found and saved off of the internet before deleted by officials and police. In some of them, you can see Haruka commenting on them.
Why have I decided to undertake this project? Nevada is a strange case. After extensive medical and psychological testing, no one can really answer what else could have possibly made her do it. She had no psychological problems, she seemed perfectly healthy and normal. Some have argued the hormone changes due to puberty combined with social peer pressure might have triggered her. We really can't know. No one knows her real name, and she's been locked away. No one can ask her for eight more years - until she is released in 2013.
I can't say anything else about this. Just read for yourself, and let the story of Nevada unfold on its own.
>>1683879I'm pretty sure it says "Natsumi" But the "i" looks like it's in katakana...? My Japanese is poor.
Her name is: Tsuiji Natsumi, anyway. :O
