Diary Entries Call Japan Murders ‘Sacred’
The junior high school student arrested in the beheading of an 11-year-old boy considered his violent attacks “sacred experiments,” according to excerpts from his diary published Saturday.
In the entries, the boy addresses a god of his own making called “Bamoidoki” and details how he allegedly beat a girl to death with a hammer, reported the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, which said it obtained the excerpts from police.
“I wanted to conduct sacred experiments to test the fragility of human beings,” the suspect wrote after the killing of 10-year-old Ayaka Yamashita.
Police would not confirm the authenticity of the diary.
The 15-year-old boy was arrested last month. Police say he has confessed to killing and then severing the head of Jun Hase in May and to four previous assaults.
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