Police in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of arson after he started a fire in a mountain forest last month.
Police said Genta Kifune, a 25-year-old company employee, has admitting taking a can of kerosene to a mountain forest, dousing several trees and then using a cigarette lighter to set them on fire on Feb 28, Kyodo News reported. He was quoted as saying he was stressed out from work and lighting fires relieved the tension.
Police said Kifune surfaced as a suspect after his car was seen parked in the area just before the fire started. Several lighters were found in his car, police said.
Police said Kifune has hinted that he may have been involved in a series of suspicious fires in the forest in the area since the beginning of the year.
© Japan Today
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Derek Grebe
There is too much arson about.
garypen
It's always one of the big three:
I was feeling stressed.
Don't remember. (often combined with "I was drunk).
I didn't mean to kill them.
餓死鬼
There is also: I wanted to see what it was like to kill a tree and any tree would do.
Wesley
He could have just gone to a Buddhist temple to meditate or do some breathing exercises.
obladi
25 years old? This is the behavior of a middle schooler.
what do you do with a guy like this?
Yuuju
Guys, you dont understand. This person has a serious problem. No psychologically healthy person ever makes fires to relieve stress except from psychopaths and arsonists. Left as he is, theres gonna be some big trouble one day. Perhaps he already started putting animals on fire. Soon I may become humans.
Aly Rustom
Brilliant you two!