Issei Sagawa became infamous in 1981 after murdering a fellow student in Paris. Declared mentally unfit to stand trial by French authorities, he was deported to Japan — where a legal loophole meant he was never prosecuted again. The case shocked the world, not only for the crime itself, but for how the justice systems failed to hold him accountable. What followed disturbed the public even more. Sagawa lived freely in Japan, giving interviews, writing books, and appearing in media, turning a horr