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Man arrested after allegedly groping woman walking home

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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.

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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!

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Perhaps that 50-year old lady looks young !

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Maybe, he was lonely and needed a hug. lol! Seriously, it’s just wrong. People should respect other people.

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One down.

One million to go.

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RodneyToday  10:49 am JST

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.

For men.

Not women.

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Aly RustomToday  07:42 am JST

a 31-year-old man gorping a woman in her 50s...guess he likes older women..

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.

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Ladies, let’s get that pepper spray and low kick/elbows ready.

Time to strike back!

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Japan is still a safety paradise

For how much longer ?

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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.

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Groper, no groping!

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If he likes older women there's tons of cougars out there in the big wide Japanese world.

LOL! Ain't that the truth!

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I don’t condone this, but is really worthy of a news article?

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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.

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Poor impulse control. His mother didn't spank him?

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She was not injured, police said.

Objection. She was injured - this incident has no doubt left her emotionally and mentally traumatized.

What's up with all the gropers in Japan ?

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.

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what kind of diagnose is that?

we read same stories here every single day.

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What's up with all the gropers in Japan ?

It's sick !

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a 31-year-old man gorping a woman in her 50s...

guess he likes older women...

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