Fear of insecurity

Hey guys, Japan is being more and more sick lately. It's been six months since I moved back to Japan, and I could clearly see something has totally changed, or I could say something has gone worse in my country.

I guess some of you guys have heard about the recent incident in Akihabara, aka, electric town.

In case for those who doesn't know, what happened is: one guy killed seven innocent pedestrians randomly last Sunday at this neighborhood. He rented a truck, came to the area and drove through the pedestrian-only street to hit people. And worse, he swung around a knife on the street and ended up killing such a lot of people. Crazy.

Now this guy was arrested and many TV programs including gossipy ones now started talking about him.

According to those news, the trigger of his motivation was that "He was pissed because his uniform wasn't in his locker room." The suspect was a temp stuff, and one day, he found his company uniform wasn't where it's supposed to be. He thought it was intentional and was a message of being fired. And he snapped, and then, killed people. Darn, what a heck is going on with this country? Is killing such an easy thing?

And here comes more. This is not the only crazy news I saw on TV lately.

This news reminded me of another one, not the murder news, though, : One TV broadcaster committed suicide in her car.

This one may not have reported internationally. One freelance TV reporter, whom everyone thinks she's cute, intelligent and successful, was found dead in her car. Obvious suicide case. She had her blog and she kept writing about her anxiety of her work, future and her life itself.

Suddenly several rumors came up on this news, such as; this girl didn't have a boyfriend or had a bad relationship with her ex, or more. But everybody could see she could have made enough money, she had an above average looks. If the rumor was close enough to her motivation of suicide, what the heck was she thinking? Her life was at least "seemed to be more glamourous" than ordinal people's one.

These two news may not be seen to have any similarity. But to me, both cases seemed to be triggered by their insecurity. And I was surprised of the power and fear of insecurity. Gee, people can do anything when being insecure and when the situation lasts long.

I can say compare to, say, American people, Japanese are a bit more sensitive in terms of the condition of "being out of the rail." So I guess we can be insecure more easily than others. As you know, we prefer being the same with others. We prefer not being stood out. Otherwise people around you start saying something wrong about you. So once you have the possibility of you being out of the loop, it would be so scary.

Hope people will be a bit more torelable of being different from others. And hope people won't gossip too much about others without knowing much about them.

Darn, hope I won't see such kind of news any more.