Police in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of stealing a woman’s underwear from the balcony of her apartment.
Police said they identified the suspect, Tsutomu Yamashita, who lives in Oharu, Aichi Prefecture, after an analysis of street surveillance camera footage, Tokai TV reported. Police said he was arrested on Wednesday and a search of his apartment turned up 200 panties.
Yamashita, a company employee, is accused of stealing one pair of panties from the first-floor balcony of a woman in Nakagawa Ward, Nagoya, in mid-May.
Police said there have been five reports of women’s underwear thefts in the area since June. Police said Yamashita has admitted to the charge and quoted him as saying he got a thrill out of collecting women’s underwear.
© Japan Today
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dagon
The new Japanese romantic comedy: '200 Panties’。
diagonalslip
@larrY....
at least he was stealing clean ones, so..... （＾＿－）
tamanegi
200? Meh..that's still minor league numbers compared to other cases seen in Japan.
Rodney
unfortunately for the police, they probably weren’t clean when they found them
CaptDingleheimer
What an amateur.
I'm up over 700 pairs at last count, and I haven't even been almost caught yet.
Yrral
Freaks and Creep
Kumagaijin
I wonder if they go up in value over time, or perhaps fresher the better. I wonder if there is some otaku black market or deep web market for those things. Super creepy.
shogun36
I wonder if he yells “yoinks” every time he steals one…..
WA4TKG
He got a thrill by stealing underwear, not by asking anyone out.
There's plenty of them out there.
GuruMick
To "Steve " above
"Whack job " as a description may be tautological.
gozaru
200? Really?
Maybe he just want to re sell the panties XD.
Toshihiro
I'm not condoning such freaky hobbies, but how about just buying one from the department store? You can choose the design and size if you're so inclined to wear them. I think I remember a previous crime article here that a guy would replace the shoes it stole from women with new pairs.
pudus
"Freaks and Creep"
" he got a thrill out of collecting women’s underwear."
wth ???????????????????????????????
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Kaerimashita
Read to the tune of the great Madness song: In the middle of the night
Disillusioned
Sadly, this whacko is not alone. There are way too many of these panty thief whackos in Japan.
Kobe White Bar Owner
I do the washing in our household and always hang panties on the inside of the multiple clip hanging things cos of these repressed nut bars.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
@diagon alley
How on earth do you know that the 200 pairs he stole were clean when he stole them ?
That would be "Pantomathic" :)
Aly Rustom
Some people get their thrills in a strange way.
Do you love collecting women's panties too?
englisc aspyrgend
Sad muppet!
Steve
What a complete weirdo a real whack job!!
Mocheake
I love women and all but no matter how long I live, I will never understand this behavior.
Antiquesaving
Seriously are you really not aware!
It has been know all over the world, not just Japan though Japan is the top place.
Vending machines for used panties in Akihabara right infront of the station can't miss it if you turn in the direction of the police station, it shocked me the first time I saw it nearly 30 years ago now it is just part of the strange background noise of living in Japan.
Heck even CSI Las Vegas did an episode on the subject.
I was told that because if this women don't want 1st floor apartments.
Antiquesaving
Sadly I wouldn't have been surprised.
I just watch a "professor" tell a US congressman he is responsible for killing Transgender because he asked if by "people that can't have/deliver a baby" she ( the professor) meant women.
Her Reply "your transphobic remark is killing Transgender people"
So I really if the title was what you joked, I wouldn't have been surprised.
TokyoLiving
Master Happosai's new disciple..
I love Japan !!..