Sataro Fukiage

Infobox Serial Killer
name=Sataro Fukiage


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birthname=Sataro Fukiage
alias= Shinshūmaro, Erotomania
birth= 1889
location= Kyoto, Japan
death= September 28, 1926
cause=hanging
victims= probably 7
country=Japan
states= Kyoto, Gunma, Nagano, Saitama, Chiba
beginyear=1906
endyear=1924
apprehended=1924
penalty=Death

nihongo|Sataro Fukiage|吹上 佐太郎|"Fukiage Satarō"|extra=February 1889 - September 28, 1926 was a Japanese rapist and serial killer. He killed at least seven girls. [cite web | author= Atsushi Hachisu| title=Sataro Fukiage | publisher= | language=Japanese | url=http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~okino/kaikyou/sei-1.htm | month= January | year= 1994 | accessdate=2007-10-29] He murdered his first victim in 1906, and killed six girls between 1923 and 1924. He was tried for three out of six cases, but his exact number of victims is unknown.

He raped a number of women besides the murder victims. According to one theory, he raped at least 93 girls.cite web | author= yabusaka| title=Sataro Fukiage Incident| publisher= | language=Japanese | url=http://yabusaka.moo.jp/satarou.htm | date= July 19, 2007 | accessdate=2007-11-04] Some estimates say he raped more than 100 women.cite web | author= | title= CHILDREN KILLERS| publisher= MONSTERS | language=Japanese | url=http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~moonston/child.htm | date= | accessdate=2007-11-04]

Early life

He was born in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto. His family forced him to work at the age of nine under the East Asian age reckoningcite web | author= Eruo Kanga| title= Sex Crimes| publisher= | language=Japanese | url=http://kodomo.s58.xrea.com/seihanzai.htm | date= | accessdate=2007-11-04] (The description of the East Asian age reckoning is omitted in the following). He frequently changed jobs. At the age of 11, he had sex with a girl about 17 years old, for which he lost his job. At 12, he was arrested for theft. Fukiage learned kana and math during the two months he spent in jail. He was arrested again for theft soon after his release, but learned classical Chinese while in jail the second time.

Fukiage had sex with a 54-year-old woman at the age of 17. With its rebound, he raped the woman's 11-year-old daughter and some girls in their neighborhood.

First murder and imprisonment

On September 24, 1906, he raped and murdered an 11-year-old girl at Kinkaku-ji. The victim was an old acquaintance of his. He was 18 years old, but he was 17 years old under the western age system. In jail, he studied the works of Confucius, Mencius, Socrates, Aristotle and Nichiren. He was released in 1922 and found employment, but he was fired again due to his criminal history. In April 1923, he was arrested for molesting a four-year-old girl, but was released.

Later murders and arrest

Between June 1923 and April 1924, he raped and murdered six girls, ages 11 to 16. He was arrested on July 28, 1924. He confessed to 13 murders, but he later recanted his story, and insisted that he had murdered only six girls and that a police officer asked him a leading question. He wrote a book, nihongo|"The Street"|娑婆|"Shaba". He was sentenced to death on May 17, 1925. Top court upheld his death sentence in July 2, 1926.

Death

He was executed by hanging on September 28, 1926. The media reported that he went to die nobly, unlike many prisoners. In his book, he requested that parents take care of their children.

Books

*"娑婆" (translation "The Street", publisher Ganshodo-shoten, Japan 1926) by himself
* [http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4894191016 "ドキュメント・連続少女殺人―孤高の鬼・吹上佐太郎"] (translation "Document; Serial Girl Murders—The Isolated Devil, Fukiage Sataro", publisher PAROL-SHA, Japan 1993)
* [http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4796655328 "身の毛もよだつ殺人者たち"] (translation "Horrible Murderers", publisher Takarajimasha, Japan 2006) - One chapter in the book treats Sataro Fukiage.

References

See also

*The Apprentice (book) - A novel written about then Japan by Lewis Libby.
*No Longer Human - A novel written about then Japan by Osamu Dazai.
*Kiyoshi Okubo
*Tsutomu Miyazaki

External links

*ja icon [http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~okino/kaikyou/sei-1.htm The article on Fikiage Sataro written by Atusi Hachisu]
*ja icon [http://yabusaka.moo.jp/satarou.htm The Fukiage Sataro Incident written by yabusaka]