Backpacks Donated on Friday the 13th by “Jason”
Serial killer Jason is on the loose again, only now he’s donating school supplies to orphans.
In early 2011 Japan was treated to the heartwarming story of “Tiger Mask”, an masked hero who donated dozens of randoseru backpacks to orphanages across the country. Randoseru are tough, super-expensive backpacks that all elementary school students are expected to own. The anonymous donations, apparently mostly from old men and women, were unusual in a country where people usually like to take credit for their good works and sparked conversations at water coolers across the country.
One year later, it’s randoseru season again, and anonymous philanthropists have returned… with a weird twist. At 4pm on Friday the 13th, two men in their 40s walked into a police station in Yokohama and asked for assistance with donating 10 randoseru (roughly 200,000yen, or $2600) to orphan kindergarteners. When the police asked for a name, the men responded that they’d rather be anonymous, and perhaps thinking of the slasher film series “Friday the 13th,” one of the men shyly replied, “Say they came from Jason.”
The police department said that they were very grateful to receive the gift and that the backpacks would be distributed to social welfare groups in the area. No word on whether the children will be informed of their donors’ questionable choice of pseudonym.
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Contributor Bio: Avery teaches English somewhere near Takeo. When he is not translating things, he is probably visiting haikyo or researching weird footnotes in Japanese history. He can be reached on Twitter at @ahm.
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