Police in Tokyo have arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of committing an indecent act after he allegedly groped a high school girl on a train and sprayed bodily fluid on her uniform.
According to police, at around 8:15 a.m. on July 17 on the Tokyo Metro Tozai line, Sankei News reported.
Police said the train was packed, and the man groped the buttocks of the girl from behind for about seven minutes before spraying the fluid on her skirt.
The girl reported the incident after getting off the train. An analysis of station security camera footage identified the suspect as Yoshiaki Takizawa, a company employee. Police said the footage showed Takizawa looking at several women at a station and then closely following the high school girl as she boarded the train.
Police said Takizawa, who was arrested on Thursday, has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying "I have no recollection of any such incident.”
© Japan Today
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Negative Nancy
What a disgusting individual. His sordid crime was planned in advance. Seven minutes is a very long time. In all that time, not one of the hundreds of people could sense something being amiss?
SDCA
I don't understand how one can be so, ahem, horny in the morning when I'm way too groggy and miserable on my train rides to work. What a sick and twisted man. I don't usually condone violence, but I would tell my future daughter to use self defense by ramming her knee to the nutsack region to ensure the perp never breeds. Then she can go to the koban to report on the wheeping man on the floor.
garypen
It reads like the dude pleasured himself on her skirt for 7 minutes, and nobody said or did anything?????
Truly a WTH moment.
リッチ
Spray? Is the word supposed to be ejaculate? It’s the medical term I believe. Spray? That’s just strange.
リッチ
disguating no one came to a child’s aid. Absolutely disgusting.
Estatesman
I am sure this happen alot in the past, and now people are really starting to report it so cases look on the rise. I have taught my daughter if someone touches her to scream and cause a massive scene.
Estatesman
This, 100%! Kick first, ask questions later!
falseflagsteve
That bloke is a menace to society, luckily he has been caught before he could escalate to more serious crimes against females. The police should check all his devices, wouldn’t be surprised if he has been up to lots of terribly perverted activities. No doubt he is also a keen viewer of online pornography, possibly an addict.
Fighto!
So, this scum targeted the most defenceless female he could find.
The sick, perverted sociopath needs to be locked up for a very long time - and I genuinely hope he expires inside there. Not fit to be allowed in society.
I just hope the poor girl one day mentally recovers from this sexual assault.
Mr Kipling
Bodily fluid?
Bile? Saliva? Urine? Blood? The fluid from his eyeball? Or could it be something else?
elephant200
If he is spraying blood or sperms, he is possible spreading AIDS to individual, a very dangerous action !
purple_depressed_bacon
"Spray"? Did he carry around a spray bottle of his bodily fluids? Or is this a translation error and they meant to say "ejaculate"? Either way, what an a sick and abhorrent individual. His defence of "I don't recall anything" when he sexually assaulted the victim for 7 minutes surely won't pass muster. Lock this PoS up.
Asiaman7
Not defending this troubled fellow’s actions, but the victim, a high school student, could have and should have stepped off the train.
There are no two stations on the Tozai Line that have a 7-minute interval. For most stations, the interval is 3 minutes.
Asiaman7
I’m just happy the victim did have the awareness to immediately report this man once she got off the train.
didou
The girl was certainly scared, but in a packed train, the girl could have easily complained to other passengers or scream to stop this quickly. Easy to say but…
BertieWooster
Much as I love this country, the attitude that "I mustn't get involved" and turning a blind eye is not something to love. Other people MUST have been aware of this. Enough people to subdue him at any rate. He is not likely to be very strong. Probably a coward.
Asiaman7
These kids should be educated at home and in the school about how to handle these situations.
OssanAmerica
Have you never been on a train full of commuters in Japan? It is very believable that this went on for 7 minutes and other passengers may not have been aware at all.
kohakuebisu
Sexual assaults should not be reported with salacious details that are demeaning to the victim.
It's enough for the public to know that someone was arrested for sexual assault on a particular train line at a certain time.
quercetum
Castration. It’ll be a deterrence.
John-San
Girls if this ever happen to you go straight for the it eyes, gouge deep his hand will automatically come up to defend his eyes at this moment lift your knee draw it back then kick for groin in one quick motions. don,t be scared. Don't be embarrassed. yell don,t grope me.
owzer
Gross. The groping too, of course, but the "bodily fluid" is just gross.
リッチ
that is NOT how you catch HIV and you don’t catch aids you are infected with HIV. AIDS is a symptom not a virus. Shocked at such a comment in this day and age frankly.
virusrex
The victim name is not included in the article, and regular people do not find details of sexual assault arousing or appealing so it would not be appropriate to considerate the details salacious.
Fighto!
Kohakuebisu -
Weird comment.
The public has the right to know about this crime - and of course the name of the perpetrator charged with this outrageous sexual assault - Yoshiaki Takizawa.
blue in green
Carry a whistle on your keychain. Some perv touches you, blow that whistle.
Attention will send pervs scurrying.
I’m sorry this young girl had to experience this.
Jonathan Prin
Teach your daughters who to react (I have 2).
This male guy needs to be taught a lesson.
In my country, if that person is not kicked in the nuts, he will be fully bodily kicked by men.
The education is to blame because how can a girl be groped on a train for 7 minutes ?
Samit Basu
Another day, another Chikan news.
@Estatesman
Still happens a lot in the present and future as well.
Gene Hennigh
Screaming or using a whistle is better than a kick to the groin. First, she has to turn around to kick and if the train was as crowed as the article suggests then that might be impossible. Second, a kick to the groin might make the perp become violent in retribution. Scream, whistle, or yell.
NCIS Reruns
Back in the 1990s, Japan had a fanzine for chikan. I kid you not. It was published by a company creatively named Finger Press.
njca4
Tozai Line at 8:15 in the morning is jam-packed. It is not easy to see what people are doing with their hands unless they're up in the handles.
I really hope spray doesn't mean ejaculate. But if that's what he did then there's no refuting the evidence.
the_sicilian
BertieWoosterAug. 30 06:44 pm JST
DanteKH
Just another Friday in Japan.
If you ever wonder why there are "Women only" cars for trains, or why ALL mobile phones in Japan have shutter sound, even if the phone is on mute, now you have your answer.
TokyoLiving
To jail with that scumbag clown..
Chabbawanga
Imagine how scared a teenage girl must be when a grown man is openly molesting her with other people all around. He could have done something much worse if she tried to run.
wtf is wrong with people like you. "she could have just got off the train", NO, the molester should have kept his dirty hands, and fluids to himself.
John-San
Bertie: Yes I am aware of this. It refer to don't stick out like tact because you will be hammered home. It a an automatic consensus. Where is other societies you had Karens. I prefer the above the above because of the reported low crime rate. Where Karen societies have above reported crime rate.
Fighto!
@ Chabbawanga -
Well stated.
There are always those who try and turn around the responsibility to the victim - even children. Pretty telling actually.
The poor girl was likely frozen scared. She was extremely brave for coming forward.
opheliajadefeldt
The suspect, is Yoshiaki Takizawa, a company employee. C'mon, name the company. I have read lots of cases on here where the same thing has happened and a lot of them just say.....a company employee, name the companies who employ these sex pest perverts.
John-San
I totally agree Fighto.
justsomeguy8008
As someone already stated, I also wonder what the "bodily fluids" were also that's definitely premeditated if he carries around a spray bottle with bodily fluids (who does that?!). It always amazes me when I hear about cases like this. I mean, its one thing to have a fetish for those kinds of things, but it's a whole other thing if a person acts on it with an unsuspecting person. I hope that poor girl gets some counseling if she needs it.
Pukey2
I wishe they'd stop with all these vague words and euphemisms.
Jennie
First of all, all the twisted wording in the article is confusing, am I to interpret this literally that he somehow “sprayed” “bodily fluid?” Secondly, though I have limited knowledge of Tozai line, I’ve heard from many that it in fact is the busiest line during the commuting hours and unlike others, it is very difficult to even move once you’re on board as people come in at every stop and nobody gets off. The victim probably didn’t face many options and it is beyond infuriating thinking of the trauma she must’ve faced, and really hope his full identity is publicized and necessary justice and action will be taken.
John-San
Some people have to read between the lines. First every male over 12/13 has a bottle/appendix that sprays/ejectulates body fluids. Do you understand now what this pervert was doing for 7 minutes.
girl_in_tokyo
Four separate posts (two examples below) are berating this teenage girl because she didn't yell, scream, or fight back.
It is pretty clear that you don't know anything about how being groped or assaulted can effect you. Women often panic, shut down, and freeze - this is such a common response that it even has a name (tonic immobility), and psychologists have long noted and written about it in journals and countless articles have been published, e.g., https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-trauma/201805/why-women-freeze-during-sexual-assault
Yet we still get comments like these, which tacitly blame the victim for not reacting in a way that the writer imagines he himself would react. Yes, he/himself, because on this site at least, it's most often men who make such comments.
You should all be ashamed. Then you should apologize, retract your comments, read up on this and educate yourselves, and never speak like this ever again.
Asiaman7Aug. 30 05:59 pm JST
didou Aug. 30 06:41 pm JST
Jonathan Prin
@girl in tokyo
Stop berating men.
None of us said the guy was not a criminal.
Willing sex with a girl is normal and tonic mobility is a feature of nature.
It does not mean it is acceptable to abuse, which is criminal.
Finding solutions by education or any means is better than thinking you need to arrest all men thinking differently than you.
Strangerland
What is it I should be ashamed for?