A tragedy of an outsider in Japan

Toady, a Chinese immigrant mother killed two kindergarten children. Both victims are 5 years old, and both the boy and the girl died with more than 10 knife wounds in chests and Abdomens.

On the morning of the killing, Zheng took a knife with her from kitchen, and drove the two kids along with her own kid to a kindergarten.

Zheng Yongshan immigrated to Japan 7 years ago. One year later, Zheng married to a Japanese citizen and had a child. In 2004, she moved to the current location, Nagahama city in Shiga prefecture.

One of the reasons for the killing, according to media reports, is even as a mother with a child of same age, as a Chinese, Zheng has problems communicating with other Japanese young mothers, she is described as silent, lonely. One Japanese woman said, Zheng seems to be a person doesn't belong to a Japanese mother’s circle.

Even Zheng took a Japanese name and become as Taniguchi Mie, and joined other three Japanese mothers to take turns driving children to school; she is still an outsider, not being accepted by other Japanese.

Mushi, meaning “ignore, isolate” in Japan, is one kind of Japanese way to treat an outsider. In Japan, you either in or out, and if you are out, you are treated with either bullying( ijime) or mushi (ignorance).

Mushi kills.