That's what really burns my ***, the two-faced facet of it. Rape is no joke and I hope that ****er, if he is in fact guilty, is getting some hide the kendo stick action right now but be consistent. Every day I read stories about terrible stuff happening and nobody seems to care. Kids are whored out by their parents to the Yaks to repay debts, babys cook in cars while their parents play pachenko, punk kids run amok and nothing is done to them because they are "juveniles" and "we don't want to stain thier academic records", the unempoyment rate keeps getting worse and the economy is for **** but do we lift a finger to help? No, we play this game every year or so. Some young dumb jack off steps on his crank outside the fence and we all have to endure the BS, the additional scrutiny, the dirty looks etc. When my wife is out alone I am not worried about some drunk servicemember, I am worried about some creepy little Japanese guy who has been taught through domestic media and social stereotypes that women are things and like being raped and abused. searched "rape" and this is just Feb, let's take a walk on the dark side.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationa....htmlQuote »Fukui pedoph:le predator jailed for attacks on girls
FUKUI -- A man who repeatedly broke into Fukui Prefecture homes and unleashed sex attacks on young girls has been jailed by the Fukui District Court.
Yuya Yama****a, 23, a company employee from Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, was convicted of multiple counts of indecent assault and attempted rape and ordered to serve six years behind bars.
"The crimes were cruel and malicious, with serious mental duress suffered by the victims," Presiding Judge Yutaka Kubo said as he convicted Yama****a.
Yama****a broke into three different Echizen homes in the period from May 2006 to June 2007, each time committing indecent acts on girls and attempting to rape one young girl. Yama****a's victims' ages at the time the crimes occurred ranged from just 10 to 15.[/quote]
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationa....htmlQuote »Convicted sex attacker charged with 2002 rape
NUMAZU, Shizuoka -- A man serving a sentence for indecent assault has been slapped with a new charge over the 2002 rape of a Shizuoka Prefecture woman, police said.
Hiromi Minematsu, 39, was arrested for rape and trespassing.
Minematsu, who has been handed a 2 1/2-year prison term following convictions for indecent assault and trespassing offenses, denies the allegations.
Police said on the morning of June 8, 2002, Minematsu sneaked into a then 20-year-old woman's apartment in Gotenba, Shizuoka Prefecture, and raped her[/quote]
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationa....html"I was drunk" sounds just as lame as when a Marine says it.Quote »Nagasaki Int'l TV employee fired after arrest for rape
NAGASAKI -- An employee of Nagasaki International Television Broadcasting, Inc., under arrest for raping a woman in Tokyo, has been dismissed, company officials said.
Noriyoshi Sakae, 24, an employee at the broadcaster's Tokyo branch, stands accused of rape. He suggested that he was involved in the incident.
"I can't clearly remember what I did because I was drunk. But I remember that I went into a woman's room," his lawyer quoted him as saying.
Sakae sneaked into the apartment of a woman in her 20s in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, on Sept. 8, 2006, and sexually assaulted the victim, investigators said.[/quote]
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationa....htmlQuote »Ex-university boss hit with fresh charge of attempted rape
A former head of Tokyo University and Graduate School of Social Welfare, under arrest for molesting a female employee, was hit Tuesday with a new arrest warrant for attempting to rape another woman, police said.
Tsuneo Nakajima, 60, admitted to having fondled the second victim's body, but told investigators that he does not remember the details because it occurred a while ago.
"It happened quite a long time ago, so I'll tell you about it once I remember what I did," Nakajima was quoted as telling investigators.
The new arrest warrant accuses Nakajima of attempting to rape a female employee in her 20s at his office on the morning of May 7, 2005, investigators said. The woman strongly resisted his actions.[/quote]
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationa....htmlQuote »Heart surgeon arrested on suspicion of trying to rape nurse
A former doctor who allegedly tried to rape a nurse after giving her an injection of what appeared to be sleeping medicine has been arrested, police said.
Arrested on suspicion of crimes including rape resulting in injury was Akira Yamazaki, 35, a former cardiovascular surgeon at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital. He has denied the allegations against him.
Investigators accuse Yamazaki of injecting what appeared to be sleeping medicine into the body of a nurse in her 20s who was taking a nap in a hospital conference room in Tokyo's Shinjuku-ku at about 2 a.m. on Dec. 11 last year, while she was on night shift, and trying to rape her.
When the nurse realized what was happening and resisted, Yamazaki allegedly hit her in the face, leaving her with injuries that required a week's treatment.
Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital sacked Yamazaki on Dec. 26 last year.[/quote]
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture....htmlQuote »Skinhead salesman's drunken dark side outed in string of sex crimesFriday (2/22)Friday (2/22)
A TV ad salesman best known for shaved head and drunken metamorphoses has become the prime suspect in a series of rapes that had women in central Tokyo terrorized, Friday (2/22) says.
Noriyoshi Sakae was arrested Jan. 30 for the rape of a Tokyo woman and sacked from his job selling advertising air time for Nagasaki TV the following day.
The 24-year-old denies the allegations against him.
"I was blind drunk and have absolutely no recollection of the time. I don't remember a thing," Friday quotes the suspect telling the police about the alleged sex attack.
Those who know Sakae say they're not surprised to see him in trouble.
"Sakae sold ads, and every time there was a party among people in the business he was invariably there. But he was quiet and ordinary. He never stood out, except for his shaved head. But one night last year, he called this woman from another company at about 3 in the morning and told her he was going over to her place right away. It scared her out of her wits," an advertising agency employee associate of the suspect's tells Friday.
"His behavior that night was so unlike the impression I normally had of him, so I talked to him a few days later and his response was exactly the same as what he told the cops after his arrest: he said he was too drunk to remember anything."
Others cast doubts over Sakae's character because of his trademark shaved head, traditionally a sign of atonement in Japan.
"If he was supposed to be a serious type of guy, why was he late for work every morning? I've heard he was made to shave his head to apologize for being late to work every day. I've talked to people who were close to him and they say he was a nice guy as long as he didn't drink," a Nagasaki TV insider says to the weekly. "The case he was arrested for involved something that happened at 5 in the morning. I suspect he may have been the type who'd go out drinking to all hours of the morning, get a bit of booze bluster and then go 'hunting' for women."
In recent months, there have been three unsolved cases of indecent assault occur in the same apartment building where Sakae's alleged rape victim lives. Sakae's DNA matches that from bodily fluids taken from the woman, and police are confident they have found the man they're looking for.
"There was an indecent assault in the same apartment building on Dec. 28," a police officer tells Friday. "And there are signs that Sakae was in the place where it happened."[/quote]
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationa....htmlQuote »Sneakers, gumshoe's fleet footwork saw Sapporo's serial rapist snaredThe convenience store where police got their break in the quest to hunt down the rapist terrorizing women in Sapporo's Shiroishi-ku. (Mainichi)The convenience store where police got their break in the quest to hunt down the rapist terrorizing women in Sapporo's Shiroishi-ku. (Mainichi)
SAPPORO -- A pair of sneakers that left a mysterious footprint at the scene of a series of rapes that terrorized Sapporo's Shiroishi-ku ultimately led to the alleged perpetrator's arrest, it has been learned.
Police were able to pinpoint the exact kind of sneakers the purported serial rapist was wearing.
And constant surveillance of citizens' shoes over a prolonged period finally led to an arrest.
"You've got no idea how many pairs of shoes I stared at on the streets," the 39-year-old Hokkaido Prefectural Police sergeant credited with the arrest of confessed serial rapist Makoto Tsurusawa said. "There was no way I was ever going to give up. I promised the victims I would keep going until I'd arrested a suspect."
The sergeant's break came on the night of Nov. 19 last year. He was outside a convenience store in Shiroishi-ku when a man drove up in a navy colored expensive Japanese car. As he got out of the vehicle, the sergeant stared at his feet and was shocked to notice the man wearing shoes just like those in the photos police had distributed of the footwear used by the sex attack perpetrator.
The sergeant followed the man into the store and, as they passed by, took a closer look at his shoes. He was convinced the sneakers were the same as the wanted man's. When the man left the store, the sergeant tried to stop and question him, but the man got into his vehicle and sped off at a furious pace. The sergeant, however, had taken down the license number of the car and it was easy for the cops to track down the vehicle owner, who admitted to the series of assaults, police said.
The Shiroishi Police Station had employed 240 officers on the case and carried out investigations 24 hours a day. They continued their search for the rapist at all hours of the day, using warmers to fight the onset of the cold the northernmost prefecture's capital is well known for.
Tsurusawa, a construction industry worker from Shiroishi-ku, eventually told police investigators he had committed 14 rapes or broken into homes to indecently assault women. He was arrested for and been charged with four counts of rape, with charges to be pursued in the remaining 10 cases, police said.[/quote]And here is ours, the one that is plastered all over the media while the rest don't seem to rate much attention.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture....htmlQuote »Details emerge of Okinawan girl's alleged rape encounter with "terrifying" Marine
U.S. Marines are dangerous, screams Shukan Shincho (2/21) and the junior high schoolgirl knew that for sure, but still ended up going along with the staff sergeant now under arrest for raping her -- a charge he vehemently denies.
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott apparently met the 14-year-old girl the weekly refers to by the pseudonym "Chiaki Hibi" in a place called Koza Music Town, an entertainment area in the city of Okinawa.
At about 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 10, Hadnott rode into the area on his Harley Davidson and began talking to a group of three schoolgirls, including Chiaki, who had just attended a fashion show at Koza Music Town.
"Chiaki was originally part of a group of five, but by 8:30 there were only three of them still hanging out together. Hadnott asked Chiaki something like where she'd bought the knit hat she was wearing. They got talking in a mix of English and Japanese, and after about four or five minutes, Chiaki asked him if he'd give her a ride on his bike as a joke. He said 'OK,' and that's how she got on the bike," an investigation insider tells Shukan Shincho.
The girl apparently thought the Marine would give her a lift home. Her two friends assumed she was only going for a joyride and would come back in 10 minutes at most.
"The bike headed off to Kitanakagusuku, a kilometer away, where Hadnott's home is," the insider says.
Kitanakagusuku was once mostly inhabited by non-Japanese, the vast majority of them associated with the U.S. military in Okinawa. Now, however, there is also a strong mix of Japanese living in the district, the weekly notes. Hadnott lived in the district with a Japanese wife, from whom he has been separated for about two years. One of his neighbors described the staff sergeant for the magazine.
"He's well-built, standing over 180 centimeters tall. He's a fair-skinned black guy who looks more like a Caucasian. If you met him, he'd say things in Japanese like 'konnichiwa (hello),' 'atsui desu ne (it's hot isn't it?)' and the like. But then, I remember his TV antenna blew down in a typhoon and he said 'antenna ga kowarechatta (my antenna's busted),' so I figured he spoke quite a bit of Japanese," the neighbor tells Shukan Shincho. "For some reason, he shared his house with an older white guy. They were always taking all these Japanese women in their 20s into the house."Tyrone Luther Hadnott, the U.S. Marine accused of raping a junior high school girl.Tyrone Luther Hadnott, the U.S. Marine accused of raping a junior high school girl.
Hadnott allegedly took Chiaki into the house, too.
"For about 20 minutes, he tried to pressure Chiaki into a physical relationship, but she kept refusing and couldn't stop crying. She said she wanted to go and ran out of the house, heading into a grove nearby. Hadnott ran after her, saying he'd take her home in his car. But when they did get into the vehicle, he didn't head for her home in (the city of) Okinawa, but went to (the nearby town of) Chatan instead. Chiaki got a moment to herself and called a male friend on her mobile phone. She begged him for help, but couldn't tell him where she was because she didn't know herself," the investigation insider says. "The phone stayed connected for a short while before the friend on the other end of the line heard someone say 'Shaddup,' something like a slapping sound, then some English and music before the line went dead about 30 minutes later."Shukan Shincho (2/21)Shukan Shincho (2/21)
At about the same time back in Koza Music Town, the male friend Chiaki called had met up with the two buddies she had been with when Hadnott came along. The three realized something was amiss. Eventually, they contacted the girl's relatives and, just before 10:30 that night, arrived at Okinawa Police Station. While they were there, Chiaki called and said she was in a park in Chatan. Officers raced to the scene and heard Chiaki's side of what had happened to her.
Based on her statements, they went to Hadnott's Kitanakagusuku home and found a black station wagon the girl had talked about. They also found Hadnott, who admitted he had taken the girl in his car. He would later be arrested for raping her.
"It's ironic this case began at Koza Music Town," Okinawa-based journalist Ryunosuke Megumi tells Shukan Shincho. "After a black American soldier raped a woman a few years ago, the Japanese government, which is responsible for the bases, paid for the area to be built with taxpayers' money as a form of apology."
The magazine promptly rattles off a litany of sex crimes U.S. military members have committed in Okinawa over the past few years.
Those in Koza Music Town say the tragic case would never have happened had Hadnott approached a local girl.
"While kids born in Koza know what benefits the bases have brought the area, they also know really well just how scary the American military can be," a Koza shop owner tells Shukan Shincho. "There's always a tension in the air when dealing with the American soldiers and none of the local girls would ever think about going off with someone in the U.S. military on a whim."
A lawyer based in the city of Okinawa tells a slightly different story.
"Apart from some areas, there are lots of girls around who want to use the English they've studied at school and the best way for them to do that is have a chat with a handsome American soldier," he says.
When told the alleged victim came from distant Ginowan and not Koza, the shop owner was not surprised.
"It simply wouldn't happen to anyone who grew up in Koza," the retailer tells Shukan Shincho. "The bases near Ginowan aren't anywhere near the size of the ones here in Koza. I'd say she probably went with the guy because, unlike the kids from around here, she simply didn't know how terrifying the American soldiers are." [/quote]