Mutsuo Toi (March 5, 1917-May 21, 1938) was a Japanese mass murderer who perpetrated the Tsuyama massacre in Okayama killing 30 people with a shotgun, an axe and katana.
Biography
Born in Kurami Okayama prefecture his parents were shinichiro and Masayo both died of pulmonary tuberculosis when Toi was still a baby so he and his older sister Minako were raised by their grandmother Yone.
He was interested in ¨Yobai (夜這い¨, a rural Japanese custom of sneaking into the bedrooms of womens in search of sexual relations.
In May 1937 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which generated the rejection and contempt of women and his neighbors, according to Toi
The Massacre
On May 20, 1938 Mutsuo Toi armed with a browning shotgun an axe and a katana cut the power lines around 5:00 p.m. leaving the village in darkness around 1:40 a.m. he killed his grandmother by decapitating her with an axe, tied two flashlights to his head then was house to house stabbing or shooting his victims in a matter of 90 minutes Mutsuo kill 30 people (28 died instantly and 2 were seriously injured and died later) and 3 people were wounded, At dawn Toi committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest.
List of Victims
- Yone (76 years )
- Tsukiyo (50 years)
- Yoshio (14 years)
- Mamoru (11 years)
- Tome (43 years)
- Yoshiko Otomo (22 years)
- Shuji (50 years)
- Chizuko Okaniwa (22 years)
- Takashi (22 years)
- Chie Nishida (20 years)
- Takeo Teranaka (18 years)
- Masakazu (60 years)
- Teiichi (19 years)
- Toki (15 years)
- Hana (12 years)
- Setsugo Nogi (22 years)
- Koshiro (86 years)
- Toyo (45 years)
- Konni (21 years )
- Tsuruyo (21 years)
- Misa (19 years )
- Tora Hirachi (65 years)
- Ito (47 years)
- Miya (34 years)
- Akio (5 years)
- Tsuru (72 years)
- Katsuichi (74 years)
- Hama (56 years)
- Kazuo (51 years)
- Miyo (32 years)
References
1.https://historycollection.com/dont-know-tsuyama-massacre-tuberculosis-tipped-madman-edge/3/
2.https://web.archive.org/web/20080526062236/http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/knight9/tuyama.htm