2 Yomiuri newspaper delivery agents arrested for allegedly raping woman

I wonder if that'll be in my paper tomorrow...hmmm...

We will request our business partners to give their employees proper education as a preventive measure.”

I think people already know rape is wrong. if the person has the genetic or mental disposition to rape, education ain't stopping them, just exciting.

" "We will request our business partners to give their employees proper education as a preventive measure.” "

Come again? Businesses have to educate their employees now that rape is wrong? What is wrong with that picture?

might have to stop my subscription to the Daily Yom

Unless it was tied into the crime, what do their jobs have to do with this?

Why is the company apologizing?

What does "give proper education as a preventive measure" mean?

medievaltimes

what do their jobs have to do with this?

I am guessing here - but I suspect that they planned this assault as a part of their newspaper deliveries. Possibly in deciding when they could safely do the crime, but at least as a consequence of seeing her on previous deliveries.

Soooooooooooooo many rapes in Japan........

niku

Soooooooooooooo many rapes in Japan.......

Well, Japan is the country that brought the world "The Rapeman" a manga about an anti-hero who rights wrongs through rape...

Says something about attitudes to women in this country.

"proper education" Rape is wrong... Japanese need to be educated about this? sick country.

So I wonder how many months they will be docked, one, two maybe?

"We are really sorry about this. We will request our business partners to give their employees proper education as a preventive measure.”

This statement just kills me....hahahaha...huh?...hahahaha

S

Can ladies carry pepper spray in Japan?

what ever happened to that young, hard working paper boy? Ever notice people deliver papers here as a real job? How low can you go?

Remember that there must be thousands and thousands of newspaper delivery men in Japan and I'm sure their resume (c.v.) isn't so important. Can you ride a motorbike? Can you follow the same route every day? OK, you're hired. There are obviously some real losers who get such jobs (nothing against the law-abiding delivery people and nothing against the job itself which remains a useful service for those who still want to read a newspaper). One wonders how many rapes these two may have gotten away with.....

Lots of the Newspaper Delivery guys are actually University students.

Those delivery outlets will let them have a room, meals and some spending money in exchange for doing deliveries/helping out. The guys usually live upstairs above the shop and work-area in a dorm like setting.

Not a bad deal for an out-of-town guy that has limited funds. They work early in the morning than head to lessons.

Same way many of the guys selling newspapers in europe in the streets are often overseas students making a bit on the side.

Despicable what they did and they will be locked up for it.

Hey! That's a familiar handle serendipity628! What's up? Isn't the dictionary big enough for you?

Anyway, nice little blight on Yomiuri by JT headlining the story with Yomiuri. Does it matter they worked for another newspaper? Is it relevant they are only delivery boys and were not even employed by Yomiuri? I think the only relevant point in this headline is, yet another rape.

This aint the first case of newspaper delivery folks commiting a serious crime. Who remembers the 1st grade elementary school student who went missing a couple of years ago down South (around Shiga). The guy they pulled for it was working as a delivery boy for another major newspaper company. I seem to remember that he had "priors as long as your arm." Think his name was Kobayashi, however, I cannot be sure. Before that case, I also remember a couple of others.

Is this article some kind of dig at Yomiuri? What does the company have to do with it?

They aren't newspaper delivery men, the article calls them 'delivery agents' by which I imagine they mean the yakkish boors who come pushing boxes of cheap washing powder into the genkan and then by one means or another try to weedle you to sign up for three years' delivery of their crappy newspaper. Once they get their foot in the door, you're toast. Best thing is not to open the door in the first place.

****Maybe they'll be sentenced to a couple weeks of mandatory meetings with RA (Rapists Anonymous).

Was just wanting to correct the innocent image some of the earlier posters had of college newspaper delivery guys! ;8) The reality, as Cleo has pointed out, is often quite different. These guys are rough, bullying, and in many cases actual Y members.

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What kind of training can you give an employee to stop this? "Don't rape the customers." ?? On another note, these guys need to be locked up for a very long time. Disgusting.

No conviction yet. It's a bit premature to assume they're guilty.

No conviction yet. It's a bit premature to assume they're guilty.

Both of them admitted it according to police.

I had experienced being harrassed by 2 newspaper delivery guy. Normally they come alone but things have changed. They come in pairs (young and chimpira looks) and threatens/force everyone in the building to subscribe to their newspaper (Yomiuri). Nevertheless, when I retorted in calling the police they decided to back off but went to the other room next door and kept on forcing their newspaper for more than hour. The other guy also keep on knocking on all doors and finding some poor victim to open their doors. They are obnoxious and very arrogant.

Once many years ago, I listened through my door and watched through the peephole as one of these sales creeps harassed a female university student living next door. I think he was trying to force his way into her apartment and she even let out a few screams. I opened my door and rang her bell to check on her and let her know that I was watching him. Now when they come to my door they take one look at me and assume I wouldn't subscribe to a Japanese paper and move along. Many of these guys give me the creeps.

That's why you need an auto-lock apartment building. If the NHK or Yomiuri man wants you to let him in, you can just tell them where to stick it and hang up the intercom.

Haven't had a prob　with them for the last 5yrs.

How come? The care-taker company that services our building put up notices that any type of sales WILL NOT be accepted and prosecuted.

We had serious probs after the building went up, people pretending they were sent to fix our kitchen filters, coat the bath-room, and what not. Had about 4-6 calls a day of guys pretending to help us and being send by our care-taker company.

If they come I simply cut them　off via the intercom, they ring again and I put the cops on them.

What helped in my last apartment when they came(no central lock) was me opening the door and telling them in english to get lost. Those guys are scared of facing a round-eye who is ready to throw them out.

Those notices are now the norm in my area and they seem to work.

I am with Altria.

We also got video-intercom if they guys look like NHK, Asahi, etc guess what we are not at home.

Had fun once answered to 2 ladies turned out to be jehova's, all they asked if I gave them permission to drop a flyer into my mail-box. Told them I was a buddhist(works great on jehova's).

How many people read newspapers these days? I mean news written on paper rather than through the internet? Sales must be 1/3rd of bubble period....or less? All the wasted paper....waste not want not. I wish they'd go out of business entirely, the xxx delivery boys that is. They go dart and weave around this suburban Tokyo neighborhood at 4 a.m. like cockroaches. Beware if your out doing a coin laundry at that hour, which I often am, since I get jetlagged for weeks after flights. And like mentioned above, they do often travel in pairs. Probably the new guy and the veteran. I'll bet they work themselves up to do the dastardly like this crime as a kind of initiation or something.

medeviltimes,

Both of them admitted it according to police.

"according to police" carries no meaning in Japan. Do you have actual proof that they committed he crime?