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UnfairRepresent
03/15/2024
08:17 AM
#1
Police in Kyoto have arrested a 45-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of arson after he set fire to his house following an argument with his 67-year-old mother over breakfast.

According to police, Satoshi Yoshizaki set fire to the house at around 8:45 a.m. on March 8, Kyodo News reported. Approximately 80 square meters of the three-story wooden house were completely destroyed. Yoshizaki was taken to hospital, suffering from smoke inhalation. His mother fled from the house and was not injured.

Yoshizaki was arrested on Monday. He was quoted by police as saying he got into an argument with his mother about the food they were eating for breakfast. He then went into his room and set fire to boxes of tissues.

Yoshizaki lived in the house with his mother and younger brother, 42, who had left for work at the time of the fire.

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/45-year-old-man-arrested-for-arson-after-argument-with-mother-over-breakfast

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My personal rule is if someone else made or paid for the food and gave it to you, you don't get to complain about it. Either eat it or don't be thankful for the effort.
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Humble_Novice
03/15/2024
08:20 AM
#2
So he was a NEET?
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LeoRavus
03/15/2024
08:24 AM
#3
I like how the article has to mention his employment status like being unemployed makes him even more of a monster. Japan work-slave culture.
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Solar_Crimson
03/15/2024
08:24 AM
#4
Imagine being both unemployed and so entitled.
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UnfairRepresent
03/15/2024
08:26 AM
#5
LeoRavus posted...
I like how the article has to mention his employment status like being unemployed makes him even more of a monster. Japan work-slave culture.
It's true and as an outsider it is weird.

You'll see articles all the time where it's like "A postman from Osaka said." "French language teacher crashes car into wall"

And it's like "Why ya gotta bring that up?"
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LonelyStoner
03/15/2024
08:27 AM
#6
I was thinking he would be like 20.

45, unemployed, unhinged, and living with your mother is wild as fuck.
He's all alone through the day and night.
UnfairRepresent
03/15/2024
08:28 AM
#7
LonelyStoner posted...
I was thinking he would be like 20.

45, unemployed, unhinged, and living with your mother is wild as fuck.
His 42 year old brother lives there too.

I think the "Abandon your parents and never look back!" thing is very American/Western.
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ai123
03/15/2024
08:29 AM
#8
He then went into his room and set fire to boxes of tissues.

I think I get what they are hinting at.
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LonelyStoner
03/15/2024
08:33 AM
#9
UnfairRepresent posted...
His 42 year old brother lives there too.

I think the "Abandon your parents and never look back!" thing is very American/Western.
I think you might be right. Dont several generations of a family live together in Japanese culture?
He's all alone through the day and night.
Shotgunnova
03/15/2024
08:34 AM
#10
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UnfairRepresent
03/15/2024
03:47 PM
#11
LonelyStoner posted...
I think you might be right. Dont several generations of a family live together in Japanese culture?
I can believe it. Japan has the oldest population in the world and a low birthrate
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Sufferedphoenix
03/16/2024
12:32 AM
#12
UnfairRepresent posted...
I can believe it. Japan has the oldest population in the world and a low birthrate
Used to be that where once upon a time. Thr eldest son was to inherit the house so he never left the younger siblings I believe would stick around till they got married maybe even awhile after that
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Smashingpmkns
03/16/2024
12:34 AM
#13
Reasonable reaction tbh
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Dark_Arbron
03/16/2024
12:36 AM
#14
UnfairRepresent posted...
His 42 year old brother lives there too.

I think the "Abandon your parents and never look back!" thing is very American/Western.

Also generational. Millennials onward often cant afford to move out.
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RISEofCHRISTIAN
03/16/2024
12:37 AM
#15
LonelyStoner posted...
45, unemployed, and living with your mother is wild as fuck.

Thought this was an American incident, but 45, unemployed, and living with parents in America is not uncommon now.
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BloodMoon7
03/16/2024
12:50 AM
#16
One time I cried because I dropped my breakfast.
My maid will hear about this.
FortuneCookie
03/16/2024
01:07 AM
#17
UnfairRepresent posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8fbbfa6f.jpg

That photo makes him look like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDzxJWpoSVs
elysdeon
03/16/2024
01:12 AM
#18
Let's be honest here being 45, unemployed, broke, single living in your parents house is pretty sad no matter what country you're talking about. I did that for years when I was younger if I went back to that lifestyle I'd hate myself more than I already do lmao
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Kradek
03/16/2024
01:18 AM
#19
Well this story is fucked. As someone who had a period of being a NEET, even though as an American, I can't imagine being so ungrateful that I'd try to burn the house down, with my family still inside, because I didn't like the food they made.

LonelyStoner posted...
I think you might be right. Dont several generations of a family live together in Japanese culture?

In most countries it's pretty common. They also have a different style of raising children which involves more extended family/community effort as opposed to the U.S. nuclear family model where it's usually just the parents who insist that them and only them know what's best for their child. We also have this really stupid attitude where parents think they know what's best for them in all regards and should be the final authority on all subjects. Like, that pediatrician didn't spent 8-11 years learning about the anatomy and well-being of children from a medical perspective just for someone to think they know better only because they shoved one out their vagina/came into one. That doesn't make you an expert of anything except reproducing.
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Revisited
03/16/2024
01:18 AM
#20
UnfairRepresent posted...
His 42 year old brother lives there too.

I think the "Abandon your parents and never look back!" thing is very American/Western.
It is purely a western concept. And in the case of America, there's so much land that sure, you can pick up and move away, literally thousands of miles and still be in the same country. In Japan you're talking about being on a literal island.

Hell in the rest of the world, you can get married and have your own family and still be living under the same roof as your old family, with at best maybe having built an extra floor/story to your existing house and living there. The land/house market is ridiculous, and the idea of wasting money renting an apartment when you have family and kids to feed is untenable
UnfairRepresent
03/16/2024
07:58 AM
#21
I mean it makes pragmatic sense
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Fluttershy
03/16/2024
08:12 AM
#22
i mean if this was something like waffles over pancakes i kinda get it
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Scorsese2002
03/16/2024
08:13 AM
#23
So what did she make?
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