There are a few aspects of the weird “exorcism” case that make it even weirder. One that I mentioned yesterday is the fact that it is the second case in just a few years to have occurred in Kumamoto in which a water-related death was caused by something done as part of an “exorcism”:
https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/666556710084431
The second thing that makes it even weirder is that the husband of the victim, who has been arrested for his role in the death of his wife, is not the sort of person one would normally imagine to be prone to believe in “exorcism”; he is a Ph.D holding scientific researcher at a local university. The English media reports just say “a university in Kumamoto” but the Japanese reports are not making any secret of the fact that the man is an associate professor at Sojo University:
https://www.sojo-u.ac.jp/faculty/department/microbial/introduction/002212.html
I saw a TV report in which representatives of Sojo University, quite understandably, expressed their bewilderment at how a scientist could have been taken in by an exorcist.
