Alexandre Bodécot, inside the minds of Japanese serial killers

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The streamer, musician, tattoo artist, and specialist in perverse crimes in Japan has just published the memoirs of a serial rapist-killer, Shiraishi, the author of numerous femicides.

Takahiro Shiraishi in 2017. This serial killer kidnapped, raped, tortured, and then murdered nine people, including eight young women. He was sentenced to death and executed on June 27, 2025. (Yasushi Kanno/The Yomiuri Shimbun. AFP)

Every week in "Les 400 Culs" , Agnès Giard, an anthropologist attached to the University of Paris Nanterre and a specialist in Japan, examines contemporary sexual discourses and practices with a skeptical and detached analysis, informed by the latest research in the human and social sciences.

" In Japan, when violence breaks out, it horrifies the entire world. It's so hard to imagine: psychopaths? In this country!? " Interviewed remotely, Alexandre Bodécot, 55, creator of the channel Satsujin ("Murder" in Japanese), directly addresses the subject close to his heart: criminal cases in Japan, particularly very violent femicides. " I've deciphered 76 of them on my channel. Half of them are psychosexual. " Unsolved disappearances, dismembered corpses, sordid murders: he's made them his daily life.

Husband of a Japanese woman, father of two children (17 and 14 years old), Alexandre stayed in Japan for twenty-four years, living both from his job as a translator – specializing in gore – and from many other activities, related to the body and limits. He owns his own tattoo studio and leads three musical projects, including a Murder Metal band (named