Tokyo (AFP) – Issei Sagawa, a Japanese murderer known as the "Kobe Cannibal" who killed and ate a Dutch student but was never jailed, has died aged 73. Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24 and was ...

Issei Sagawa, the infamous Japanese cannibal who killed, raped and ate a woman's flesh in 1981, died at the age of 73. Sagawa, also known as the “Kobe Cannibal,” passed away of pneumonia at a hospital ...

Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who killed and ate a Dutch student in the 1980s, has died at the age of 73. Sagawa, who became known as the "Kobe Cannibal," raped, killed and ate Renee Hartevelt in 1981, ...

Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24 and was given a funeral attended only by relatives, with no public ceremony planned, his younger brother and a friend said in a statement. In 1981, Sagawa was ...

Issei Sagawa, a Japanese murderer known as the "Kobe Cannibal" who killed and ate a Dutch student but was never jailed, has died aged 73. Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24 and was given a ...

Cannibalism rarely serves as a good career move. But it has sustained Issei Sagawa, now 69, since the 1980s. Books, movie roles, a comic book, countless talk-show appearances in his native Japan — ...

A cannibal killer who murdered and ate a female classmate never served jail time. Issei Sagawa even went on to become a celebrity in his home country of Japan. Sagawa told French Police in 1981 that ...