[국제]Japan’s “educational abuse” tragedy… murdered daughter and mother after 9 years of retreat for forced admission to medical school

A daughter who was forced to luck for nine years in Japan murdered her mother and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The judge said, “There is room for sympathy for the accused who was forced to go to medical school and had to receive abnormal intervention from his mother.”

Nozomi, 34, the defendant of the murder of his mother in Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, three years ago, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in an appeals trial held at the High Court in January. On the 15th, Kyodo News reported the details of the case and the trial process.

In March 2018, a damaged body of Shinobu Kiryu, a 58-year-old woman at the time, was found in a river in Shiga Prefecture. In June of the same year, the current police investigated Nozomi, who worked as a nurse at a university hospital, on charges of abandoning a body, and arrested him for murder in September.

Defendant Nozomi was the only daughter of her deceased mother. His father, who was an office worker, separated from his mother since Nozomi was an elementary school student. Since Nozomi’s childhood, her mother has set her daughter’s career path to medical school and disciplined her child severely. However, Nozomi’s grades fell sharply from middle school days, and she was unable to go to medical school by the time she was in high school before entering college.

Nozomi eventually failed to go to medical school, but her mother lied that she had passed to a relative and asked her daughter to pretend to go to medical school. My mother forced her to go to medical school for as many as nine years, and she did not give her daughter any free time. I watched my daughter’s cell phone all the time and didn’t even let her take a bath alone. Nozomi ran away from her mother three times, but was always brought back home.

After her daughter hadn’t passed medical school for nine years, her mother admitted to Shiga Medical School’s nursing department on condition that she became a midwife. However, the relationship between mother and daughter rapidly deteriorated as Nozomi chose to become an operating room nurse rather than a midwife.

When the mother learned that Nozomi had a smartphone without her knowledge, the mother was in great anger and broke the smartphone and filmed the scene of assaulting her daughter. With this incident, the daughter planned to abandon her mother after killing her mother and damaging her body. After killing her mother in March 2018, Nozomi wrote on social media, “I defeated the monster. I am relieved with this.”

The first trial court sentenced Nozomi to 15 years in prison, but the second trial court sentenced him to five years in prison and sentenced to 10 years in prison, saying that the defendant was confined to an extreme situation. The judge pointed out that the environment in which the defendant grew up was’a closed environment only for mothers and daughters throughout the ages’. Until early February, the deadline for prosecution, both the lawyer and the prosecution did not appeal, and the sentence was confirmed.

In an interview with Kyodo News Agency conducted in a letter, Nozomi said, “My mother thought that going to the University of Tokyo or the National and Public Medical Department was an elite course from Shiga Prefecture. My mother, who graduated from technical high school, said that she regretted that her final education was high school, many times. I said,” he said. She also recalled that her mother insisted that “a friend who had a worse grade than herself became a nurse,” and that the nurse insisted that it was not a good job.

Nozomi said, “I am more comfortable now because the detention centers are not reprimanded if they follow the rules. The guards at least don’t tell me to die because it’s annoying to me.”

In rare cases as extreme as this case, it has become a social problem in Japan, where parents force students to study for entrance exams or bind their daily lives for the sake of their children’s future.

Professor Morotomi Yoshihiko, a professor of clinical psychology at Meiji University, pointed out that “there are cases in which children cannot admit that they are different personalities, and parents are forced to choose a career or desire for a career.” The professor advised, “You should not impose on your child the wish of a parent’s life. It is difficult to cope with it from the child’s point of view, so please actively use school counselors and child counseling facilities.”

YTN PLUS Reporter Jeong Yoon-joo
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