Issei Sagawa, Japanese man who killed and ate woman's flesh in 1981, dies

Issei Sagawa, a Japanese writer known for killing a fellow Dutch student and then partially eating her in Paris in 1981, died late last month due to pneumonia, his brother said. He was 73.Sagawa, who died Nov. 24 at a Tokyo hospital, made headlines after he shot the Dutch student whom he had invited to his home and cannibalized her while studying in the French capital.He was not prosecuted following a mental evaluation in France that he was in a state of insanity.Following his deportation to Japan in 1984, Sagawa became active as an author, writing works including "Kiri No Naka" (In the fog…READ FULL ARTICLE