Saturday, January 14, 2017

1. An unusual murder in Nagasaki


July 9, 2013. It was released that the police's criminal investigation unit had begun to carefully question a first year middle schooler boy from the same city (12) regarding the news of the kidnapping and murder of Tanemoto Shun (4) at Nagasaki City Kindergarten .Meanwhile, on the internet, from July 7 the news was spreading that the criminal was a young boy, long before the school and officials had begun the process of identifying him.
 
There was still no agreement on the issue when I, as a news expert in the making, stopped to check the reports. However, on July 9th, the dam was broken and the news began to appear on TV at once.

It happened in the morning. I immediately fired up the video capture software on the pc, I switched from channel to channel, trying to understand the status quo.

The on site cameras and the people's testimony, the footprints left at the scene and the local school stuff, and other news sources I watched, convinced me that the young boy was the culprit.

First thing I turned to securing the boy's name and picture. What kind of person was he? I was dying to see the boy's face. But no picture could be found on internet bullet boards, so I began investigating.

On the internet, the underground news site Cybazzi was set in motion with the force of crashing waves. At the same time, the site 2ch's news board was set into motion, going into a so-called 'festival'. The manager of the site, Hiroyuki-sama, even built a dedicated board.