Police in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Wednesday arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 41-year-old female acquaintance.
According to police, Hideo Miyake, a fisherman, beat and strangled Yoko Furukawa, a clothing store employee, around 3 p.m. on Tuesday in the town of Saza, Sankei Shimbun reported. Later that day, Miyake turned himself in to police who found Furukawa’s body along the side of a road just past 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, local media reported that in late October, Furukawa consulted with police by phone about some problems she was having with the suspect. However, she declined to file a formal complaint and police determined there was no threat to her life.
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porto
Disturbing. I wonder if nothing could've been done to prevent this tragedy. I think if she felt she was in enough danger to consult with police a formal complaint might have been the way to go.
Was she a clothing store owner or employee?
Japanoob
Above needs fixing. Thank you.
Mocheake
What other determination could they have made? We all know that even if she had filed a complaint, they would have done very little investigating; just listened for a bit and said something like, ''He sounds harmless. Don't worry about it.''
sir_bentley28
This is a tactic used by the police to MAKE the victim NOT file a protection case or to drop the complaint against the attacker/stalker. One of my friends' wife had a violent stalker following her and showing up at her job, where ever she went and would just show up at her daughter's school gate to "casually happen to be in the area"! They went to the police to file a complaint and the police asked them all these questions like "Did he touch you or your child?" "Did he unlawfully enter your home?" "How many times in a day would he call you?" And then the police said "Its not enough for us to file a case against him. Sorry for your troubles. Maybe you should just change your pattern and time schedule of doing things. He would loose interest!" So they left very angry without filing the case. I don't know if they did so or if he just gave up, but my friend and his wife would disagree with that line!
Random
Unfortunately he’ll probably only be sentenced to 15 years, if even that. Life is cheap in Japan.