A 23-year-old man arrested for exposing his lower body to a group of high school girls in Tokyo last month told police Saturday that he has done the same thing about 100 times.
According to police, the suspect, Rentaro Hayashi, approached the girls as they walked home at around 7 p.m. on May 31 in Kita Ward. He undid his pants, exposed himself to the girls and then ran away.
Police said Hayashi, who was identified through street surveillance camera footage in the area, told them he had exposed himself to girls about 100 times since last June, mainly in warmer weather. He was quoted as saying he got a thrill out of seeing the look of surprise on the girls' faces.
© Japan Today
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Ah_so
You wouldn't want to get the old fella cold, would you?
Kobe White Bar Owner
Nuts are out more in hot weather!
Chip Star
This guy needs to be locked away as this behavior can escalate and is in no way healthy.
Do the hustle
A perverted flasher. Nothing really new here. I hope he close enough to the girls so they could actually see his micro-junk.
DaDude
Getting flashed is actually as common as train groping. Ask a Japanese female that you know and high chances they have experienced this. My local elementary school has a zapper tool they use to go after these type of people that come around school grounds.
seadog538
Indecent exposure offending is, according to a friend who is a retired Psychiatric Nurse, a very difficult deviation to cure. The recidivism rate is apparently very high.
Monozuki
From what I've seen of him on TV, I think he's a decent looking guy. And I didn't think he would go out of his way to expose himself to school girls at all. :‑)
serendipitous1
Surprised he didn't claim it's a pet one-eyed trouser snake that he has no control over!
commanteer
Every anti-social behavior can escalate, but that doesn't mean it will. We can't lock people away for what we think they might do in the future.
He is 23. Hopefully, he can get treatment to help him control his urges or channel them into socially acceptable behavior. There are plenty of accepted outlets for exhibitionists these days, especially if he is a decent looking guy.
Kapuna
He did this 100 times and this is the first we hear of it???
Jonathan Prin
100 times : so easy to remove your pants ? (like having a pee).
It probably means girls don't care that much.
Which I told my girls to do if ever it happens.
Psychologically-ill, I feel pity for him.
Pukey2
Fully clothed (I think):
https://www.tokyoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/Taro-Hayashiren.jpg
So if he undoes his zipper, so what? He can always say he needs to urinate. Doing it in full view of everyone in the streets is not that uncommon in Japan and is tolerated. I've seen it many times.
Luddite
Another sex offender. Time for a sex offenders register here.
Stewart Gale
“From what I've seen of him on TV, I think he's a decent looking guy. And I didn't think he would go out of his way to expose himself to school girls at all. :‑)”
Ted Buddy was a good looking bloke too....
Stewart Gale
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sensei258
Worked a case in Korea in the very early 1990s where the son of a local resident would stand in the Gateway of his property and masturbate as the elementary schoolgirls, one of whom was a military dependent, passed by. The case was never prosecuted because when we got to the property the mother was crying and begging and apologizing because the son had developmental issues and was doing that.
kurisupisu
One hundred times before capture???
Why is it possible to offend so much before capture?
garypen
Parents should teach their daughters to point and laugh at the perps' chinchins. It may not stop this behavior, but it'll definitely hurt the perverts' fragile egos, and reverse the power dynamic, giving the girls the power and making the low-life perverts the victims.
theFu
Girls should be taught to point and laugh loudly as a first reaction.
Brian Wheway
All girls should be allowed to carry taser stun guns, can you imagine it, he pulls out his weapon and the girls get out there weapons, who will come off worst?? I would like to know has the bloke been reported before? has this just been reported to the police? once or twice I could understand but he's allegedly exposed him self 100 times before and nobody has reported it?
WilliB
garypen:
Not sure about that at all, seeing that he gets a thrill from the attention. A can of spray paint sounds more useful.
Tiana Young
Keep letting these people get off with the minimum sentence or none at all and wonder why they keep doing it 100+ times.
garypen
Not empowered, humiliating attention. They want to see horror, shock, fear, etc. They don't want to be ridiculed, mocked, and laughed at.
stormcrow
I knew a guy back in high school who used to get his thrills by dancing in front of peoples' living room windows at night with nothing on except a Halloween mask. I found out about it because his mother and my mother were good friends and his mother was quite worried about her son according to my mother. I never discussed it with him but I figured he was having fun seeing the surprised looks on peoples' faces.
He went on to become a star football player and wrestler for the high school so I guess he was just a born performer.
Norman Goodman
The suggestion to reward a visual assault with a physical assault is evidence of its own sickness. In no way do I justify such a visual assault, the goal of which is usually to elicit negative reactions such as shock, surprise and fear. It also needs to be pointed out that its not the sight of the human body that is the real problem here, but rather suddenly blind siding people with something and they don't know what's coming. A knife? A kick? No, its just a dong. Of course the perp probably likes to think its his incredible dong that did it, rather than the shock of the confront strangers with a potential, actual attack. Who knows? Regardless the cure isn't violence. Its the perp finding a new and consensual outlet....which society...bizarrely, tends to make a difficult process while it complains about such behaviors. The illegality of prostitution comes to mind.
Norman Goodman
Tiana Young This is one man and we have no reason to believe he has ever been arrested, sentenced, charged, tried, jailed or anything like that before. But I will say that Japan is a relatively safe country and it has a lot to do with how the Japanese do things including not being draconian about small crime...which tends to push perps to worse crimes.