4. Mutsuo Toi
Toi was born was born in Okayama Prefecture in 1917. His parents died of tuberculosis when he was an infant, so he and his sister were brought up by his grandmother. We know very little of his life after this, except that he began writing a novel called YÅ«tokaiÅmaru (which roughly translates as ‘I am a fucking nutjob’), and enjoyed creeping into women’s beds in the middle of the night in the hope of getting laid. Good luck with that.
At around midnight on May 21, 1938, Toi cut off the electricity supply of his home village of Kaio, shrouding the community in darkness. He returned to his grandmother’s house before chopping her head off with an axe. After strapping two fleshlights (sorry, FLASHlights) to his head, Toi began forcefully entering the homes of his neighbours, brutally slaying them with a shotgun, a samurai sword and an axe. As dawn broke, he turned the shotgun on himself and committed suicide.
By the end of his killing spree, Toi had murdered 29 people — almost half the population of the village. What a dick.
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