Remembrance of Murder” tells the “dark side of the mind” of the murderers in the five murders.

The line between “do” and “do not” is not blurred.

Where is the “borderline” between a person who has committed a murder and a person who has not?

Just because someone is a murderer does not necessarily mean that he or she was destined to be a “murderer” from the time of birth. They must have experienced joys and sorrows in their daily lives just as we do.

And yet, people still kill. How was this “darkness of the heart” born? The book, “Reminiscence of Murder: Why the Tragedy and Tragedy Happened, Written from the Confessions of Five Murderers,” was published by Tetsujinsha on December 25. The author, nonfiction writer Mizuho Takagi, wrote the following in the “Introduction” of the book.

I, too, have wanted to kill people. Not only have I wanted to kill people, but I have also unintentionally picked up a knife in anger. The line between “do” and “don’t” is not blurred. It was one of those moments that made me lose confidence in my ability to say so.
But even so, I did not do it. Because the regret that seeps into my mind before “doing” comes first.

The book consists of “confessions” about the five murders, sometimes directly from the mouths of the perpetrators, sometimes in letters, and sometimes from people who were close to the perpetrators and knew their circumstances. The following is a partial summary of the book.

The Kawasaki Nursing Home Series of Deaths by Falls

The incident occurred between November and December of 2002. Until the second death, the police treated it as an accident, but when the third death occurred, they changed their investigation policy. I (then 21), an employee of the home, came to the forefront of the investigation as the murderer, and when he was arrested in February 2004, he confessed to the three murders.

However, at his first trial in January 2006, I reversed his testimony, saying that he had done nothing wrong. He claimed that he had no recollection of what happened at the time of the murders and that he had made a false confession under pressure from the interrogators. However, the interrogation was recorded, and there was no indication that he was coerced into confessing. The confession was considered credible, and he was sentenced to death in March 2006.