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Police in Tokyo have arrested a 32-year-old man on suspicion of killing a woman in her 30s at a brothel where she worked.
Police said Yutaka Imai, a contract employee, was a customer at the establishment in Taito Ward at around 11 a.m. on May 5 when he allegedly stabbed the woman in the neck with a knife, Kyodo News reported. The victim was found in a bathtub in a room. She was taken to hospital where she died about 90 minutes later.
Imai stabbed himself in the stomach and was found in the corridor outside the room. He was hospitalized and was arrested by police on Saturday after he recovered.
According to police reports, Imai told investigators that the woman refused his reservation at the brothel. He was quoted as saying, “I felt an irresistible urge to kill her after seeing how good her life seemed to be compared to my own.”
© Japan Today
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Spitfire
RIP,lady.
3RENSHO
Remind to NOT stay at this hotel...
tamanegi
“I felt an irresistible urge to kill her after seeing how good her life seemed to be compared to my own.”
Good god!
garypen
Psycho POS loser.
factchecker
Pathetic loser. Hope he hangs.
stormcrow
“ . . . after seeing how good her life seemed compared to my own.”
Really?! She’s a prostitute. People pay her money to have sex with them.
Thunderbird2
What a vile example of humanity he is - killing the poor woman because he perceived her life better than his. Loathsome slug!
Empress of the Universe
I thought prostitution was illegal….
wallace
Sex workers are human.
diagonalslip
all these guys who kill someone and then stab themselves are so much less efficient at the latter........ funny that.
falseflagsteve
What a scumbag, a loser of the highest order. Lock the cad up and throw away the key.
Nicolò
Is there a brothel? No way it's Japan, one of the most developed countries. I believe it's just a bathing service and a woman staff.
Mark
A high risk job like this should have a proper security.
WA4TKG
There it is again: “Taito-Ku”.
Isn’t this the Asakusa area ?
It seems they are making a vailed attempt to not make the area sound bad, when of course the North area is nothing BUT “Bath Houses”.
kaimycahl
@stormcrow I don't think she was a "Prostitute" she was a paid "sex worker" she worked in a brothel. Yes people pay her money for sex, but this was a controlled established work environment she was not a street walker soliciting sex. I think there is some difference, a prostitute don't refuse service, their mind set is any "Trick" they will do, working at a brothel and refusing his service suggest to me its business as usual where you can refuse service to anyone and the money was not that important.
“ . . . after seeing how good her life seemed compared to my own.”
Really?! She’s a prostitute. People pay her money to have sex with them.
Speed
Taito-ward is where the infamous Yoshiwara red-light district was during the Edo Era and afterwards.
Gee, I wonder why. She could tell he was a nutso loser.
TokyoLiving
Pathetic loser, send him to gallows !!!..
Well said..
GBR48
Treat sex workers with respect. They do a high risk job most of us wouldn't or couldn't.
Sven Asai
Personally I don’t see anything specific here or differences to other jobs or work. We all are somehow prostitutes and have to sell us one way or another. She sold sex, we others daily sell us by our muscle power or our knowledge or both. And we all also have risks to die or to be killed in all our other working environments.
shogun36
Idiot.
These fools harming and killing hard working women.....
Make an example of the scum and stretch him
Marco
Envy.....many prostitutes can make a lot of money in a month....much more than a salary man.....