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A 23-year-old unemployed man, already in custody for indecently assaulting a high school girl on a train in September, has been charged over a second incident in which he cut the skirt of a high school girl's uniform and groped the lower part of her body while on a train in Osaka Prefecture.
According to police, Shoto Kaku, who lives in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, has admitted to riding the Keihan Line and lurking around train stations during school commuting hours from August to September, Kyodo News reported.
In the second incident, which also occurred in September, Kaku used scissors to cut a 10-centimeter-long strip off the teenage victim’s uniform. The 23-year-old then placed his hand through the gap and touched the girl’s buttocks. Kaku was quoted by police as saying “At first, I just touched her upper body but that didn’t satisfy me.”
Police said Kaku confessed to committing several similar crimes since August. Police are investigating at least seven confirmed incidents involving high school girls having their uniform skirts cut. In the incident for which he was first arrested, Kaku allegedly groped a high school girl and caused her to injure herself when she fell to the floor inside the train.
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Michael Machida
Why do Japanese guys in Japan do this sort of thing in Japan?
Toshihiro
This guy is going places, and if left unchecked, he might graduate to something more heinous. Give him some rehab.
David Brent
A steady diet of rapey manga/hentai since a young age, a dysfunctional family, porn addiction, lack of mental health help for this sort of thing in Japan....
shogun36
So how many more times on his punch card does this fool have to commit similar crimes before being put to sleep?
I’m sure he’ll be out there again in no time, assaulting another girl.
Start cutting off parts, and throw him in the slammer. How hard is that?
Realistic
Serial offender is repeating the same crime still roaming freely!?
Are we missing the some part of the story.
Sanjinosebleed
Neuter the disgusting P.O.S automatically he is just a step away from rape and murder!
The scarier thing is that he did it multiple times and got away with it!
WA4TKG
Dial 0120-PERV
Dango bong
what a freak of nature...
Eastman
A steady diet of rapey manga/hentai since a young age, a dysfunctional family, porn addiction, lack of mental health help for this sort of thing in Japan....
yes could not agree more.its like-a mental package from childhood and guy like believes that he is still normal and not doing anything bad.
virusrex
Nothing in the article says the offender is free, the criminal was arrested, and while in custody it was charged with another crime, there is no mention of him being released at any point.
Joe Blow
Let me guess, released soon because he said sorry and has a family.
William Bjornson
To the Japan bashers, IF ONLY it were JUST Japan but it happens in, at least, all 'Western' and westernized cultures and, in other places more often than Japan it goes much further. Female Humans are weaker and possibly, per natural selection, they are because such behavior accounted for a significant percentage of the births in the past...
Alex
It really says a lot about the society when someone can sexually assault a child and not feel any shame whatsoever in admitting to it.
Ken Holcomb
Would you prefer Japanese men(?) do this in other countries, or are you saying it would be more acceptable if non-Japanese men(?) did this here in Japan? Just trying to clarify the focus of your question.......
Also, I agree with Bjornson that this is not just a Japan prob!em. Although, since Japan has such a heavily used public transport system, it seems the pervs are attracted to the target rich environment of trains and buses. Easier to blend in with the crowd once he's got his jollys. Maybe the national Police could start staging some undercover women cops dressed in high school skirts on those train lines known to be problem areas, armed with mace and a baton. Gather up the inevitable YouTube, Instagram and TikTok videos of the takedown and start streaming them on large video screens in and around train stations. It's not quite head-on-spikes effective but it might suffice to deter the freaks a bit.
Ken Holcomb
By the way, I've got 4 granddaughters in JHS to College. Any perv that gets caught doing this to one of my girls, better hope he gets a very long prison term, because I've got a very long memory. Just sayin'.
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You nailed it
BritishGaijin
As a mother of a girl in Osaka, I’d like to get some scissors and cut something of his… Disgraceful piece of filth. Lock him up!
Gaijinjland
Is it so hard to find some lonely twisted girl online and live out your train groping/ raping fantasy with consent at home? Not sure what’s stranger, the groping or the freaks who steal and collect 100’s of pairs of used panties … people here have serious issues.
theFu
"Groping" is sexual assault and needs jail time. If you want to attract women,
a) have a good job
b) do the dishes and at least 50% of the house chores like laundry, cleaning the bathroom, vacuuming, etc
c) remember date night even if married 50 yrs - date your wife, not anyone else
d) make her feel good about being with you and proud to be seen with you anywhere.
Really, isn't that hard. I call it "being a man".
Disillusioned
Just perverted cowards!
Stephen Chin
"At first I touched her upper body, but that didn't satisfy me, so I touched her buttocks." So did the high school girl allow Kaku to touch her...?
Harry_Gatto
The only people missing some part of the story are you and your 6 supporters. Read the first and last paragraphs again, slowly.
falseflagsteve
I think he’s a mentalist. He needs to see psychiatrists to assess what is making him behave in such a vile manner. Prison and psychiatric treatment is usually needed for weird chaps like this. Prison for a while won’t change his bizarre mindset.
purple_depressed_bacon
So he's clearly a repeat offender and the police are just what, letting him roam the streets pretty as he pleases? Says a lot about their attitude towards sexual harassment and sexual assault. Someone lock this fool up already.
tigerjane
Last month I was on a crowded train and a man had his hand on my buttock and I shifted thinking it was my imagination and he was still doing it. So, I shifted right around so he could not and got off the train and back on looking straight at him and he had his hands deep in his pockets. Men like these need to be all locked up in a mental institution because they are sick.
Fighto!
Absolute piece of trash he is. No hope for him. He should be locked away in a mental hospital permanently - after undergoing complete castration.
I just hope the poor, violated girls will one day recover from these sexual assaults.
Thomas Twatt
Wow. Blimey.
Er, I dunno. Maybe? You tell us.
TT
ian
Maybe at least lockup. If it happens again maybe you could report it. Grab the hand and shout chikan
kurisupisu
Its called emotional immaturity and it’s rife in Japan
Matt Hartwell
At least he confessed. Ill give him that.
Mark
Castration yoroshiku
kaimycahl
@Ken Holcomb I agree its not just a Japan problem but your logic suggest proactive fixes for the problems, when in fact they should be proactive in terms of what one poster (Eastman) mentioned that seems to be the real problem which could be getting rid of the "steady diet of rape manga/hentai that these boys who grow up to be men see at a very young age which feeds to porn addiction, they grow up with this fantasy and because of the lack of mental health support from childhood to adulthood, these guy grow to thinking it is normal to do these things that they read about and see visually". This is why this guy Shoto Kaku felt he didn't do anything wrong and continued to do the act repeatedly over and over. If he didn't get caught the first time the challenge and urge becomes greater. You mentioned *the national Police could start staging some undercover women cops dressed in high school skirts on those train lines known to be problem areas, armed with mace and a baton. All of what you said is being done and STILL THE PROBLEM EXIST its a mental problem and the only way you can stop it is getting to the root of the problem and that is at head start!! You mentioned Gather up the inevitable YouTube, Instagram and TikTok videos of the take down and start streaming them on large video screens in and around train stations. ****There's posters on trains and at stations alarming women about this and still that doesn't stop these guys. You wrote "It's not quite head-on-spikes effective but it might suffice to deter the freaks a bit". ***All of this is reactive!
Last but not Ken you wrote "By the way, I've got 4 granddaughters in JHS to College. Any perv that gets caught doing this to one of my girls, better hope he gets a very long prison term, because I've got a very long memory. Just saying"'. My logic tells me if a guy harms any of your 4 grand daughters he is better off in jail because once he is out your memory will not let him live. My question to you is this what good are you in jail to your grandaughters after your long memory tells you to take this guy out. Think about it the guy is dead and you are in jail there are a whole lot more of those perverts out there who is going to protect your granddaughters then? I'm just asking since you have a long memory that you might want to shorten before you spend a long time in jail!!
SaikoPhysco
Not just a Japan problem, totally agree, but in many other countries it isn't as big of a problem. Heck, in the USA, you grope a woman on a bus or train and you're probably in for a fight with her and some of the passengers. I've witnessed two incidents of weirdos going after girls / women on trains and both times I walked up to the guy and told him... 'not today, not when I'm around'. And they both walked away. Women need to immediately shout out and alert others or at least shout out.
starpunk
He committed this offense last month. Yet he keeps on doing it.
It 'wasn't enough there' so he touched her can. Even that won't be enough for him to get his jollies and he'll take further steps. It won't stop there.
What do you think the 'Women's March on DC' (before the pandemic) was about? The USA had this disgusting Caligula who brags the exact same thing. These chumps need to be put into their place!
Peppe
He need to see mental doctor , what they teach at school ? Japan need open mind , too much strange people
Yohan
This guy needs a psychiatrist, this is not normal behavior.
Harry_Gatto
Read the first line of the article again.
lostrune2
Irresistible
Three goals
Women in Japan need to be more aggressive about this. They need to speak out. Heavy fines should be placed on the culprits who do this to women on trains. It's a crime and should not be thought of anything less. They also need to remove all the erotic magazines in convenience stores. It gives the impression Japanese women are just objects.
SaikoPhysco
@starpunk... the Women's March in DC was about overall women's rights across a wide spectrum and other countries did something similar but Japan was not one. Yes, the "disgusting Caligula" like figure sparked the March but it was barely about incidents involving groping... which again, isn't as big of an issue in the USA. Rape, on the other hand is. I don't mind being quoted and corrected but this article and my comment were within the parameters of the subject until you brought the DC March. I'm still trying to figure out why you felt it necessary to add that.