14-year-old girl sets fire to her house in Gunma

Monday 01st December, 09:43 AM JST

GUNMA —

A 14-year-old girl was arrested Sunday night after setting fire to the home she lived in with her father in Higashi-agatsuma in Gunma.

The girl, a second-year junior high school student, allegedly started the fire in the hallway around 7 p.m. Sunday, which resulted in the 80-square-meter one-floor wooden home being destroyed. The girl called police shortly after she started the fire. Her 48-year-old father, who was sleeping at the time, awoke and the two fled the house.

The fire took firefighters 2 1/2 hours to extinguish. According to police, the girl said she was really angry when she started the fire and wanted to let her anger out.

Wire reports

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bebert at 01:56 PM JST - 1st December

Poor little thing. She's obviously messed up. Let's hope she gets some help.
JOKERXJOKER at 02:02 PM JST - 1st December

...next time try torch yourself first...in public of course...i guaranteed u a full nation coverage..lol..hey its been proven in vietnam..
tkoind2 at 02:25 PM JST - 1st December

Modern Japanese society is sick and no one seems to be willing to take it in for a serious check up or to do anything to cure the social ills. Seems the government and people would rather ignore it and hope it cures itself. But this is social cancer and it will just get worst if not addressed.
dennis0bauer at 03:02 PM JST - 1st December

She will be really angry when she hast to sleep under cardboard without her favorite TV show
memyselfI at 03:28 PM JST - 1st December

Pyromaniac She needs help. If she thinks it's ok to set fires because she is angry. In the future when she has her own family or whatever she will set fires.

She needs help. Psychiatric counselling is much needed.
ptolemy at 03:40 PM JST - 1st December

I'd hate to think what she'd have done if she was really enraged. As parents what punishment do you give a kid for burning the house down? I'd send her to Dr. Phil for a year, that would teach her, but then again that could be seen as abusive.
romulus3 at 03:42 PM JST - 1st December

Living in a box with her dad? wonder what triggered her anger?
smithinjapan at 04:03 PM JST - 1st December

Awww... the poor girl! So now that she and her dad are going to be living on the street, what's she going to do now if she gets even angrier about that? It's a shame more and more Japanese just burn houses down and kill people without ever thinking of what's going to happen once the act is done; they seem to think jail or the street will somehow make them feel 'better'.
BBLeo at 05:14 PM JST - 1st December

Why was she very angry? Could we get some real explanation, not just saying that she burnt the house because of her anger? I would like to hear the true version of this story. She should also attend 'Anger Management' classes. Waiting to hear more about this 'ANGRY FIRE'
romulus3 at 06:15 PM JST - 1st December

smithy,

Awww... the poor girl!

and if she was being sexually abused...?
bamboohat at 08:48 PM JST - 1st December

these kids need to the heavy bag a few times a week in gym class. that lets out quite a bit of anger.
romulus3 at 11:12 PM JST - 1st December

She was not being abused, or she would have told the police

sigh
airrunwesker at 11:35 PM JST - 1st December

Agreed. The girl belongs in protective custody. Something doesn't add up! I have known a lot of Japanese women, and not trying to stereotype, but something had to really P her off! And she called the police right after starting the fire... I do not think she wanted to kill her father. Abused, more than likely... but I do not think it was her father.
techall at 12:14 PM JST - 2nd December

Fire Fighters fought an 80 square meter, wooden house fire for 2 1/2 hours and it was completely destroyed. It shouldn't have taken 2 1/2 hour for that thing to tune to ash anyway, what were the firemen doing, stoking it?
anonymouswoman at 04:24 PM JST - 3rd December

she really needs help. see, Japanese come out in the open let loose and let go of your angry or frustrations so not to think of any bad things around your surroundings....there is nothing wrong to smile, laugh and be noisy...enjoy life