3 girls, 3 men arrested over body found stuffed into drum in Fukui

Wednesday 07th October, 09:33 AM JST

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ratpack at 09:27 AM JST - 7th October

Wow...heroes!!! 3 guys and 3 girls v 1 guy.....so tough and macho.
bamboohat at 09:41 AM JST - 7th October

This guy languished for three days? Would he have lived if they had taken him to a hospital, or at least anonymously called for an ambulance from the parking lot?

If the three dudes are the one's that beat him up, how did the three girls get involved?

Did these girls know that some guy was in need of medical attention, and after he died, just helped to chuck his body in the sea with no guilt at all?

Were they too concerned about not getting caught they let some guy spend THREE DAYS DYING and hot help him out?

Horrible. I hope these three girls enjoy working for the yaks at the bottom end of the entertainment industry the rest of their sorry lives.
timorborder at 10:13 AM JST - 7th October

Comparisons with other countries are not relevant. What is at work in situations like this is the rule of the mob. It differs little from what happens when lynchings occur. Indeed, comparisons with "Lord of the Flies" are more to the point.

Anyway, the victim of this case should be mourned, while those who committed murder (and those who were accessories to it) should feel the full brunt of the law, even if they happen to be 17 year old girls.
Yelnats at 11:16 AM JST - 7th October

This place is going down hill.
PASHA_51 at 11:44 AM JST - 7th October

Terrible. Really saddening.
bobbafett at 11:55 AM JST - 7th October

people don't give a damn about one another when they have to crawl all over each other like ants in the streets and cram into each other like sardines on a train and are forced to line up and follow each other into public/cafe toilets where you are greeted with others stench and mess they didn't clean up etc....you just lose your empathy for those who are not directly connected to you.
GW at 12:33 PM JST - 7th October

Like I always say Jpn is a damn cold place, cold people, timorborder bang on with the lord of the flies thing, it applies in varying degrees to many areas of J-society.

Assault, kidnapping & murder, teenage girls & supposed young adult males what a said mix, sadly we will get more not less of this nasty stuff
jason6 at 01:02 PM JST - 7th October

Japan's finally caught up to the rest of the developed world in heinous crimes of greed, I guess. Mental exercise: if one were to murder somebody, why would they do it in such a big group?? Maybe more resources and assistance in disposing of evidence, but the associated risk of somebody ratting out the group exponentially rises..
dolphingirl at 01:19 PM JST - 7th October

So many questions here...as bamboohat mentioned: How were the girls involved? Why did they keep him for 3 days? Was the money dispute connected to the robbery? Still, the conclusion remains the same: horrible crimes were commited.
TSRnow at 01:21 PM JST - 7th October

What's a money dispute? Can anyone be more specific? Did they know this man or was it random robbery?
fritatten at 01:47 PM JST - 7th October

JT had an article a few weeks back arguing that the crime rate has by far not grown as much as the media make belief with their stories. It basically called for an article every now and than saying, "while there are crimes and rates are increasing, Japan is still one heck of a safe place compared to the rest of the world, so let's be happy about that instead of shaking our heads on the perceived end of civilization". Media attention and quality of their coverage does more for perceived crime levels than actual crime. While JT published the comment, I've never seen an article like the requested one, but even so in this case they omit an otherwise standard "increase of crime rate in [add prefecure name]". The point being: a crime like this is sad and outraging, but so are a million other crimes commited everywhere each day. To read a downspiraling of society out of this is less accurate than asking a psychic about ones hand-lines. There are things to hate and things to love about this country, but the fact that I've never even felt slightly threatened no matter what the time or where I was in Tokyo or its subways, definitely falls in the second category. Try the same in Paris, St.Petersburg or Rio and then come complain about crime-rates in Japan.
japangonzo at 04:22 PM JST - 7th October

Fukui is going downhill faster than Obama's popularity in the US!
animallover at 06:59 PM JST - 7th October

What a sad story!! Six people against a helpless young man.Very promising generation to keep beautiful Japan going on the right track. What was the money problem? debt or extortion? Oh, whatever the answer is, cannot bring the poor victim back.
Monoflow at 11:04 PM JST - 7th October

In Danmark they just started to discuss to reduce the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14. Younger people these days are much more grown up, than we was 30 years ago. Of course you will not 100% avoid the increasing criminal rate beyound youngsters in Japan, but I guess an age of criminal responsibility at least from 16 should get us rid off this trash for a while...
mnemosyne23 at 01:07 AM JST - 8th October

The poor man. Three days to die with no medical attention? That's torture, pure and simple. I'll be very interested to find out the nature of the "monetary dispute," though I agree with what many other posters have said in that it sounds like organized crime had a hand in it. Either that or these six rejects felt like imitating some yakuza heavies and then panicked when it got too real for them.