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Issei Sagawa

1949 - 2022

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Issei Sagawa (佐川 一政, Sagawa Issei; 26 April 1949 – 24 November 2022) also known as Pang or the Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese lust murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. He murdered Hartevelt and then mutilated, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on her corpse over several days. In France, Sagawa was judged to be legally insane and ordered to be held indefinitely in a mental institution. After a few years, he was deported to Japan, where psychologists from Matsuzawa Hospital examined him and unanimously concluded that he was sane. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Issei Sagawa is the 43rd most popular extremist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Japan (up from 210th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Extremist.

Issei Sagawa is most famous for being a Japanese cannibal who killed and ate a Dutch woman in Paris in 1981.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Issei Sagawa ranks 43 out of 283. Before him are H. H. Holmes, Robert-François Damiens, Luis Carrero Blanco, Timothy McVeigh, Otto Ohlendorf, and Andreas Baader. After him are Peter Kürten, Nedeljko Čabrinović, George Habash, Nathuram Godse, Joseph Kony, and Jim Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Issei Sagawa ranks 62. Before him are Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Robin Gibb, Sebastián Piñera, Jarosław Kaczyński, Shelley Duvall, and Margareta of Romania. After him are Bill Nighy, Gene Simmons, Luis Sepúlveda, Lionel Richie, Tom Waits, and Miuccia Prada. Among people deceased in 2022, Issei Sagawa ranks 49. Before him are Sidney Altman, William Hurt, Mylène Demongeot, Louise Fletcher, Kakuichi Mimura, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. After him are Ivica Osim, Jacques Perrin, Kirstie Alley, Issey Miyake, Angelo Badalamenti, and Hardy Krüger.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Issei Sagawa ranks 134 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Ko Arima (1917), Emperor Reigen (1654), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Yukio Tsuda (1917), and Masao Ono (1923). After him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Jiro Miyake (1900), Usaburo Hidaka (null), and Masaru Emoto (1943).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Japan

Among extremists born in Japan, Issei Sagawa ranks 1. After him are Sada Abe (1905), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), and Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962).

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