Nevada tan

This article is about an underage Japanese murderer. For the German rock band, which was meanwhile active under the name Nevada Tan , see Panik (band) .

Nevada-tan ( Japanese NEVADA た ん , also: ネ バ ダ た ん Nebada-tan ; * 1992 ) is the name by which an (then) eleven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl became known who had killed a twelve-year-old classmate.

The murder took place on 1 June 2004 in a primary school in Sasebo ( Nagasaki instead). The victim's throat and arms were slit open with a box knife . Since then, the perpetrator has become an internet phenomenon , primarily because of her gender and her young age .

Shortly after pictures of the schoolgirl suspected of murder were published, the first cartoons appeared in which she was shown in a hooded sweater with the words " NEVADA " on it. Such sweaters are commonly worn by fans and members of the University of Nevada sports teams . The perpetrator wore such a sweater in a class photo that was circulated on the Internet very quickly after the crime became known. The suffix -tan appended to the “NEVADA” is a variation of the belittling form -chan for addressing children. Since Japanese law prohibits the publication of the names of underage perpetrators, their real name was never given to the press.

The perpetrator was transferred in September 2004 by order of the Sasebo Branch of the Nagasaki Prefecture Family Court from a youth home in Nagasaki to a detention center for teenage girls in Ujiie ( Tochigi Prefecture ; incorporated in Sakura City on March 28, 2005 ). The institution there is the only one for girls in all of Japan where it is possible to put inmates in solitary confinement.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japan in shock at school murder. In: BBC News. June 2, 2004, accessed March 21, 2007 . 
2. ↑ 長崎 小 ６ 女 児 殺害 事件 資料 ネ バ ダ 情報 . Retrieved March 21, 2007 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ Sasebo killer moved to institution. In: The Japan Times. September 17, 2004, accessed May 30, 2016 .