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Eugenic Thoughts and the Attribution of an Incident: Causal Observations of the Sagamihara Care Home Attack

This paper analyses peopleʼs attribution of the Sagamihara care home attack in 2016, in which 19 disabled residents of a care facility were killed by a former employee, U. Three forms of causal observation are distinguished: societal, personal, and bodily attributions. Although some people suspected that Uʼs psychiatric condition was the likely cause, many organisations of/for disabled people ascribed the case to social attitudes that deny disabled peopleʼs lives （“eugenic thoughts”）. However, societal attribution is dysfunctional, in that it renders Uʼs rampage understandable in a performative way, impeding progress toward the unconditional inclusion of disabled people. Thus, attribution analysis, the approach adopted here, can explore the functions, implications, and eﬀects of peopleʼs causal observations.