Incoherent
Japan Sleuth
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RSBM: yes, it tells us a lot about him.So is this another clue about the killer? That he wasn't with family during these hours and possibly during this celebratory time.
It made it a lot more difficult to think of him as Japanese, especially when the TMPD revised his age down to 15-24 and said he was living a student lifestyle. Someone of that age and occupation would generally have a family he would need to be with, obligations, expectations, and be very busy during that time period. Someone like him would be noticed if he was not there, if he declined to return to his family, or hid away, etc.
I’ve said it before but the days before and after new year is the one time in Japan you can guarantee people are all together with their family.
As with everything there are always exceptions. When the age range was still much broader I could imagine him as a Japanese man estranged from his family, or perhaps didn’t have one, a loner, someone who jumps from job to job. But when that was all revised it made it much more difficult to imagine.
What it says to me is that he wouldn’t be missed by going out that night to kill or he could explain it away without much issue. Someone from somewhere where there isn’t such obligation and expectation to clean the house and pitch in with everyone to make the holiday special. Someone who if he wanted to hide away after the murders he wouldn’t be bothered by most people. Someone who had a way out.
All of this is of course JMO.
But just to add, I do also think someone in his family knows what he did and helped him with that way out.