Police in Tokyo have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of sexually molesting a woman as she walked home in June.
According to police, the incident occurred late at night on June 10 in Meguro Ward, Fuji TV reported. Police said Toranosuke Yaegashi, who works at a Harajuku beauty salon, came up behind the woman, who is in her 20s, and grabbed her left shoulder. The woman told police he then put his hand up her dress and groped her breasts.
There were no pedestrians around at the time. Police said Yaegashi was identified through street surveillance camera footage. He was quoted by police and saying he was curious to touch the breasts of a woman he didn’t know.
© Japan Today
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starpunk
Disgusting. She didn't say yes and he just resorts to these stunts. He thinks he's being cool and cute by doing this? He's acting like an 11 year old at best.
Mocheake
If you're curious about that, why not go to a soapland? Now you go to jail as a sex offender, genius. Maybe logic wasn't in the equation when he dropped out of 3rd grade.
Vince Black
The top three stories in the crime section are all about men attacking or molesting women.
Japanese guys seem popular hey
Aly Rustom
Oh ok. That explains it then...
CREEP
rgcivilian1
" curious to touch the breasts of a woman he didn’t know." Now this is a new line that I hadn't heard.
Hiro
@P. Smith, is not that rare in other nations. Most countries has tons of these perverts. Difference is that in Japan they can catch you using the camera footage. Only problem is that Japan has a low crime rate so journalists has to rack their brains to put anything interesting on the news. In other nation, this is not even considered news worthy of paying any attention too.
GrungeHamster
No you dingus. You’re supposed to say
“I was drunk.”
”I have been stressed out at work recently.”
“I don’t recall.”
Bow deeply and you avoid any accountability. That’s Japanese justice.
sakurasuki
Other JT's article today beside this one
So many crimes toward woman in Japan these days.
Random
Six months in lockup should cure him of his curiosity.
WA4TKG
I never Perv’d out before, so I wanted to try it.
garypen
I've always been curious to punch the face of a sexual predator I didn't know.
Hervé L'Eisa
In my youth, you'd meet up with a girl at school or elsewhere, get to know each other a while, then if there was good chemistry you might get a kiss. It was called courtship.
In today's dysfunctional instant noodle, immoral society, people have digressed significantly. This numbskull has now ruined his future.
Parents, train up your children in the way and they will flourish.
Do the hustle
I’m gonna guess this creep has only touched his mother’s breasts 20 years ago so all breast’s would be from a woman he didn’t know.
Hopefully he’ll get some time in the big house and learn what it’s like to have a stranger fondle his breasts. Preferably a 200 kilo biker.
Paul
Obviously his parents haven't taught him anything! Most probably he comes from a dysfunctional family as so many do, in which nobody communicates with each. Even animals teach their offsprings how to behave and what they should or should not do.
Maria
Such men ought to be chemically castrated. They cannot control themselves and are a danger to women.
Zaphod
P. Smith
It seems you make big judgements based on the stories that you see in the media. And it seems you dont notice that in Japan, an incident like this not only gets solved by the police but also turns into story. How many countries would that apply to?
girl_in_tokyo
Hiro Today 08:37 am JST
Actually, that is not the case. There is a lot of sex crime in Japan, but most of it just doesn't get reported. The report rate in Japan is just under 4%, compared with 20% in the US.
The biggest problem is that sex crimes are not taken seriously enough and most sexual predators get off with a slap on the wrist.
Zaphod Today 03:24 pm JST
Actually, the conviction rate for sex crimes in Japan is extremely low. The police quite often don't even follow up on such crimes when there isn't video footage, as there was in this case. Much of the time the police just tell the woman not to go out alone at night, or some other victim-blaming response. Very often the police try to discourage women from even filing an official report.
But thanks to the #metoo movement, the reporting rate is going up and the police response is slowly improving. However, it will be a very long time before Japan can be said to be safe for women.
lostrune2
Didn't he just throw a brick
Oxycodin
Curious??? if you want some action either soapland, or those G-cup pubs will give you plent of time to spend your curiosity to your heart contents thats if you can afford it.