FUKIYA MIGHT HAVE GONE A long way in the world if he had only put his considerable intelligence to

better use. Young, bright, and diligent, and the constant pride of his professors at University — anyone
could have seen that he was a man earmarked for a promising future. But Fukiya chose to fool all
observers. Instead of pursuing a normal career, he shattered it abruptly by committing… murder!

Today, many years following his shocking crime, it is still unclear what strange motive actually
prompted this gifted young man to carry out his violent plot. Some still persist in their belief that greed
for money—the most common of motives—was behind it all. To some extent, this explanation is
plausible, for it is true that young Fukiya, who was working his way through school, was keenly feeling
the lack of money in his purse. Also, being the intellectual that he was, his pride may have been so
deeply wounded at having to consume so much of his precious time working that he might have felt that
crime was the only way out. But are these altogether obvious reasons sufficient to explain away the
weight of the crime he committed?