One of my friends has a Japanese stalker that has been bothering her for about two years now. His efforts to contact her are unrelenting. He emails her everyday, declaring how me he loves her and needs her, but she just ignores the messages as spam. Last year he even said that he bought a plane ticket to the United States just to see her, scaring her enough to call the cops.

Recently he has been contacting her friends, and threatening to kill himself unless she pays attention to him. With the suicide rate being so high in Japan I wouldn’t doubt that he is speaking the truth.

She says this all started when she briefly met him at a party. Since then he hasn’t been able to take no for a no. Honestly, with billions of other people in the world, is it that hard to meet someone else? Especially when you don’t even know the girl in the first place.