Police in Tokyo’s Taito Ward have arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of sexually molesting a a woman in her 30s as she walked home in June.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 10 p.m. on June 5. Kyodo News reported that the woman was walking along a sidewalk when the suspect, Yuji Nakashima, a temp worker, came up behind her and groped her. There was no one else around at the time, the woman told police.
Police said Nakashima was identified after an analysis of street surveillance camera footage which showed him loitering in the area for several hours before the incident. Nakashima is also being questioned about several similar incidents in Adachi Ward where he lives.
Police said Nakashima has admitted to the allegation and quoted him as saying he has been in a bad mood recently because his work hasn’t been going well.
© Japan Today
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purple_depressed_bacon
Do they actually stop and hear themselves when they confess drivel like this? Like, "oh I was cranky from work so I decided to go sexually assault someone". Unbelievable. Toss this waste of space in jail and leave him there to rot.
Disillusioned
Just another dimented sexual predator with a lame excuse. Give him a couple of years in the slammer to reconsider his life choices.
stormcrow
Official statement to police:
But officer I was drunk and lonely!
WA4TKG
Taito, isn’t that Ueno ?
WilliB
Slow newsday? Do they really want to report every single groping incident in the metropolis?
shogun36
someone give me a tissue...........
to get this thing out of my nose.
Alex
Again, I say, if every single person who had "a bad day" and was in "a bad mood" went around groping/harming/murdering people, we would live in a society of criminals. Always amazes me how these disgusting losers think such "excuses" are valid. Another one to throw the book at.
Brian Wheway
yet again, no sex offenders register
G&T
Legislation allowing chemical castration exists in France, the United Kingdom, so why not Japan?
Nuno Teixeira da Cunha
Walking in a street alone at 10 pm its never a good choice, that maniac must be held in prison for many years.
Badge213
Ah the standard Japanese answer: "Was stressed".
William Bjornson
"Man arrested for groping woman walking home in Tokyo"
In America, when things are going badly we just go out and shoot someone...
WilliBAug. 20 02:13 pm JST
Slow newsday? Do they really want to report every single groping incident in the metropolis?
Willi, read how many comments and the quality of the comments these 'titillating' stories receive and you'll see that this is 'entertainment' and 'stimulation' for many and, also, the weirdest part, opportunity for those who are in Japan but seem, somehow, to view the local culture with complete disdain verging on disgust in their views of Japanese society as though completely blind to their own crime ridden societies where these sorts of stories, here, are like nursery rhymes relative to the outrages occurring daily in their own polities, to take the opportunity to 'look down' upon others. C.S. Lewis, however questionable some of his views, said, ""A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you." which seems, somehow, apropos here with the understanding that 'pride' is the worst sort of self-blindness. And for many of the voices aroused here by these trivial stories of Human impulse gone wrong, the paraphrased echoes of "Methinks thou protest TOO much!" cannot be ignored. JT seems to have taken to heart the phrase "If it bleeds, it leads" to mean "If it's deviant, it's relevant" for its readership. Whatever sells, I guess.
Thomas Twatt
Or in America.
Tom Tit
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glad at least they arrested one. There are too many SA in Japan whether reported or not.