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Japanese man burns down house after his mother throws away his toys
Japanese man becomes suicidal after mother threw away some of his 'Gundam' animation series robots
- AFP
- Published: 11:37 August 25, 2010
- Image Credit: Gulf News
Tokyo: A Japanese man has admitted to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robotic toys.
Yoshifumi Takabe, aged 30 and living with his mother, said he had become suicidal after she dumped some of his 'Gundam' animation series robots, of which he had enough to fill 300 boxes, the Sports Nippon said on Wednesday.
The fire, on August 9 last year, completely destroyed their two-storey wooden house in Kasai, Hyogo, but no one was injured.
"The 'Gundam' figures are like the partners I spend my life with," he reportedly said after pleading guilty at western Kobe's District Court. "I wanted to die with them in a fire if they were to be thrown out."
The 'Gundam' series, based on an animation TV series, which started in the late 1970s, is about space wars fought by gigantic robots.
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