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Nonfiction writer Kota Ishii delves into the depths of Japanese society!
I have in my possession a letter received from Nozomi Kiryu, the murderer of a mother of nine medical school graduates who was murdered in Shiga Prefecture in 2006.
She was ordered by her mother, who had an academic complex, to go to a national university medical school, and was forced to take 9 nani. After failing her entrance exams, she tried to pursue a career in nursing, but even there she was deprived of options, so she murdered her mother to escape the curse of her parents.
After the murder, she posted the following on Twitter
I defeated the monster. I feel safe now.
A short time after the murder, she was arrested by the police and brought to trial. Although she initially denied committing the crime, she later admitted to it and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In a letter Nozomi Kiryu sent to me, she wrote the following
I sincerely hope that those who are now being driven to the brink of mental illness will be saved, and that no new sufferers will arise.
Wielding the cause of education
Many of us, if not all of us, were subjected to Spartan education as children by parents who placed a high value on academic achievement.
For some, this may have caused lifelong emotional scars, broken relationships with their parents, or even mental illness.
–Educational abuse.
Today, over-education by parents is called such. Although it is medically considered to fall under the category of “child abuse,” it is still not fully recognized by society.
Why on earth do parents abuse their own children under the guise of education?
In my book, “Kyoiku Abuse: Kyoiku Kyoiku Kyoiku Dento” (“Educational Abuse: ‘Keen’ Parents Who Destroy Their Children”) (Hayakawa Shinsho), I have shown the process and mechanisms by which parents engage in educational abuse from various perspectives, thereby revealing the distortions in modern society.
In this article, we would like to consider some of the cases in which parental developmental disorders lead to educational abuse, using actual murder cases as examples.
