To the OP, I thought the same thing and came up with two answers.
First, Jake was killed by Kyako, who is already a ghost, and not by someone living. So that could have made a difference. But then the rest of the family was killed by the stepmother, so that killed that theory.
The second theory was the fact that it was a japanese curse that only affected the japanese people because of how strong they believe.
That is all I could come up with at the moment. Good question, though.
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First, Jake was killed by Kyako, who is already a ghost, and not by someone living. So that could have made a difference. But then the rest of the family was killed by the stepmother, so that killed that theory.
The rest of the family was killed by the stepmother because of Kayako's curse. By the time she kills Jake's older sister, she was probably as dead as the school psychiatrist back in Japan. Hence why she looked all weird and didn't scream bloody murder as she was pulled under the water in the tub.
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The rest of the family was killed by the stepmother because of Kayako's curse.
Yes, but regardless they were killed by the stepmother. I don't think that she was already dead, posessed into insanity, maybe, but not dead yet. Just my opinion.
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By what I remember in the other films, once you're killed by the Ju-on you become part of it. So people like Aubrey became ghostly monsters themselves. I kept expecting to see a Ju-On Jake kill the psychiatrist but, alas, it wasn't to be.