Three masked men robbed a love hotel in Chiba on Sunday morning, getting away with about 180,000 yen.
According to police, the robbery occurred at around 3:30 a.m. at the hotel in Oamishirasato. Fuji TV reported that the three men, wearing ski masks, entered the hotel, which looks like a castle. They went up to the second-floor office and threatened the 76-year-old owner and three employees on duty with knives and a broken beer bottle, and demanded "kane, kane kane" (money, money, money), police said.
The owner handed over about 180,000 yen and the three men ran outside and got away in a car. No one was injured in the incident.
Police said they are analyzing street surveillance camera footage to try and identify the car.
© Japan Today
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redfender
I wonder if the guy with the beer bottle got less money?
Rik314
"which looks like a castle" and "demanded “kane, kane kane”. Bloody Lannisters!!
misunderstood
Now that's what you call Robbing the hood!!
ShinCebu
The owner is wise in giving only 180000.....
keika1628
The Yakuza don't own these small businesses normally , it's the Yakuza thugs who feed off them for protection money. Peanuts ?
albaleo
All the trademarks of thugs from Glasgow.
Are they sure? I suspect one of the thugs said to another, "Speak Japanese, ya bam!", and he replied, "Cannae, cannae, cannae."
Brian Wheway
thats about £1300, so between 3 of them that not much each, but if your desperate, its a fortune, but if this establishment is owned by the yaks, is it going to worth the pain that they are going to suffer when they catch up with them?
sn00z3
Isn't every Love Hotel has glass window? Everyone can hide inside and locked the door, while calling police.
nath
They must have seen this coming.
DaDude
You act like this was a year's earnings or something. The owner just handed over money that was there, not his entire life savings.
Michael Martin
Wot, no "It's a rich man's world" gag?
Gaijin Desi
This shows Love Hotel business in Japan not going well. No more profitable business.
some14some
...and demanded “kane, kane kane” (money, money, money), police said.
If Foreign crime...About US$1,730
Wc626
180,000 yen? Split among 3 tobbers, hardly a score.
Jalapeno
A broken beer bottle? What, they're so poor they couldn't afford another knife?
Peter Qinghai
@since 1981, enough to feed the beast. It's a wonder not more of these crimes are commited.
Keep an eye out for copycats.
since1981
Only 180,000? Business is pretty slow these days.
bones
Where is the LOVE!!
Yukiii
It will be easy to find out them.
randomnator
not much of a payoff. High risk low reward crime there. Idiots.