Drunken man dies after being robbed and abandoned on street in Shinjuku

Monday 23rd February, 04:10 AM JST

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likeitis at 12:22 PM JST - 23rd February

so how do you get him on his way if he is passed out?

Read the thread.

Here is a question: How do you get the pin number out of a guy who is passed out? How do you get him to the ATM? If they could do those things, they could have done a lot more than leave him in an alley on a cold night.

as there is no proof they illegally jacked up the price thinking they could fool a drunk guy, i don't think i need to prove anything.

Hey, wasn't it you that said:

He's the criminal thus far.

Prove it or take it back. All I am saying is that we can't prove who is in the wrong about the money. So I have not declared anybody criminal here. You did.
bobcatfish at 12:56 PM JST - 23rd February

hey, mr pot. You want them charged and found guilty with non-suspended sentences. if he can get his own pin number he can get his own taxi.
techall at 01:31 PM JST - 23rd February

73 and 74 year old female bar workers? I sure hope the 24 year old was a fox because I can't see any other reason for drinking in this place.
likeitis at 01:33 PM JST - 23rd February

if he can get his own pin number he can get his own taxi.

Stephen Hawking could also get his own pin number. Getting a taxi can be problematic though. I don't know if you realize it, but when motor functions go, one of the last to go is the mouth.
bobcatfish at 01:41 PM JST - 23rd February

"taxi!"
Midnightpromise at 03:52 PM JST - 23rd February

Negligent homicide, next case.
OnTheRecord at 04:27 PM JST - 23rd February

Japan is a dangerous place, heck!! its a place to be avoided.

Sure there is crime in my town, but nobody dies, and a barowner who acts like that!!! Gee, this is sure a weird story. Something seems amiss here, there re more facts to this i'm sure.

Glad i live in the safety of the States sometimes.
BBLeo at 07:09 PM JST - 23rd February

I like ages of this people. It is like 'Mafia' in full operation. Will all be charged for murder or just for robbery? Someone has to get suspended sentence to continue managing bar. Please ca we get next time more details of charges, and who is charged with what not just...The four under arrest have admitted to the charges. Cops said... suspicion of robbery and negligence resulting in death. Is anyone charged with murder? 'BOOZE, BOOZE UNTIL YOU DROP.'
TheVripper at 07:06 AM JST - 24th February

"The guy was left to freeze to death on a street in the middle of Tokyo. Don't the police patrol the streets around Kabukicho? For nine hours, not one member of the public could be bothered to tell the police that there was someone in trouble. Shameful."

Yeah, that's pretty weak. I witnessed something like that in Shinjuku a couple years ago. An old man keeled over in the middle of the sidewalk. Since my Japanese sucked, I waited for a minute to see if anyone else would help out. No surprises though, at least 50 people either walked over the guy or around him.

Eventually I hailed a cab, picked the guy up, put him in a cab and told the driver to go to the hospital. He might have had a stroke for goodness sake!

Yes, Tokyo might rank #1 in convenience, but dead last in people's ability to give a rat's ass about strangers.
ultradodgy at 09:15 AM JST - 24th February

How many people walked past him as he lay dying on the streets?

Arrest them as well.
Ranger_Miffy at 04:30 PM JST - 24th February

I was knocking around Kabukicho Sunday night. It was not freezing cold. The poor guy probably died in his own upchuck. Still, it is a sad story.

And what the heck is a "multipurpose rental space"? That could be anything and everything...
Ranger_Miffy at 04:31 PM JST - 24th February

The Vripper, Good on you for helping the poor guy. I really do wonder why people ignore someone passed out in the middle of the sidewalk...but then life here is built on doing that all day long, so that is probably it. Problematic situation solved. (Sigh).
vultor at 07:24 AM JST - 25th February

TOKYO — A 50-year-old man who had been drinking heavily in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district died Saturday after a bar manager and three others robbed him and left him on the street, police said Sunday. Police have arrested the bar manager, Mitsuko Ogawa, 73, and two female bar workers, aged 24 and 74, on suspicion of robbery and negligence resulting in death.

So, what the hell was the cause of death?
ForeignKiri at 09:28 AM JST - 27th February

Just reading the headline made me upset...

It's nice to know people can get you when your'e DOWN... no motor skils, ability to think clearly,in a druken stupor ... but yet its for the money...so to them its perfectly logical. What if he was an under cover cop... they woulda got busted right there!
ptolemy at 12:21 PM JST - 28th February

To be fair, passed out salarymen are seen on a daily basis. That is why people kept going on their way as they saw him on the street. In my neighborhood here in Nagoya I've tried to help them only to have them get irate at the help. So I quit and just step over them now. When I lived in Tokyo between 2003 and 2005 my home station was Kichijoji, salarymen were passed out on the platform chairs, steps, and entry ways on a nightly basis. Even the JR staff ignored them. Perhaps his drinking problem should also be looked at as a cause. He had already been drinking with colleagues and then went to another bar, alone, to keep drinking. Isn't drinking alone one of the signs of serious alcoholism?