Police in Tokyo have arrested a 31-year-old man on on suspicion of sexual assault after he allegedly groped a woman as she walked home last month.
According to police, Heisuke Uchiyama, a company executive from Suginami Ward, is accused of hugging the woman from behind on a pedestrian bridge near Hachimanyama Station along the Keio Line in Setagaya Ward at about 10 p.m. on May 25, Kyodo News reported. The woman, a part-time worker in her 50s, was heading home at the time.
Police said she told them that Uchiyama covered her mouth with one hand and groped her body with his other hand. She was not injured, police said.
Several similar incidents have been reported in the same area since the end of 2021. Uchiyama has alluded to his involvement in those incidents, police said.
© Japan Today
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BertieWooster
This is NOT a joke. It really happened.
At a supermarket yesterday, there was a lady with this in bold letters emblazoned on her T-shirt:
G-R-O-P-E
Of course, I didn't. But I wonder if she knew what it meant!
Seesaw7
Perhaps that 50-year old lady looks young !
Jim kirk
Maybe, he was lonely and needed a hug. lol! Seriously, it’s just wrong. People should respect other people.
Ligger2
One down.
One million to go.
girl_in_tokyo
RodneyToday 10:49 am JST
For men.
Not women.
girl_in_tokyo
Aly RustomToday 07:42 am JST
No, like all men who commit sexual assault, he hates all women and prays on the ones he sees as weak.
I’m close to 50 now. Guy who tries groping me, when no one is around, will learn something.
shogun36
Ladies, let’s get that pepper spray and low kick/elbows ready.
Time to strike back!
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
For how much longer ?
Rodney
So is grouping, rape? I understand being sexually abused, but everybody seems to say Japan is full of these crimes. Where I have lived before people are shoot in the face for the color of their dirt, or bottled in the face for their football team. Mass murders in USA to NZ. Acid attacks in India.
i hope it wasn’t rape and that he will learn about life while imprisonment.
japan is still a safety paradise.
Ass
Groper, no groping!
Aly Rustom
LOL! Ain't that the truth!
Nibek32
I don’t condone this, but is really worthy of a news article?
CaptDingleheimer
What a disgusting slob of a loser.
If he likes older women there's tons of cougars out there in the big wide Japanese world.
theFu
Poor impulse control. His mother didn't spank him?
purple_depressed_bacon
Objection. She was injured - this incident has no doubt left her emotionally and mentally traumatized.
A sexually repressed country that's also housing stressed out, overworked citizens. No time for downtime or sexy times, the latter of which many Japanese men and women are almost repelled by so they end up with unfortunate incidents like this.
Eastman
what kind of diagnose is that?
we read same stories here every single day.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
What's up with all the gropers in Japan ?
It's sick !
Aly Rustom
a 31-year-old man gorping a woman in her 50s...
guess he likes older women...