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In 1981, Issei Sagawa (佐川一政), a student of English literature at the Sorbonne Academy in Paris, invited a woman he had grown attracted to, a classmate called Renee Hartevelt, to dinner for a literary conversation. There he killed and ate her.
Sagawa was declared unfit to stand trial and his wealthy father, Akira Sagawa, had him extradited back to Japan where he was released from custody within fifteen months. By this time, Sagawa had become a national celebrity in Japan for his unrepentant attitude towards the entire affair, reveling in the cannibalistic act. Since then, he has authored several bestselling novels and appeared in at least one film, an erotic drama titled "Shisenjiyou no Aria" (The Bedroom). To this day Sagawa writes a column for a national tabloid.
In 1983, Sagawa described the experience of the act which made him famous.
Besides books about his own murder, Sagawa wrote a commentary book "Shonen A" in 1997 on the Kobe Children's Serial Murder (see: ) of 1997 that a 14-year-old "Youth A" ("Shonen A") killed and decapitated several children.
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