Hawker's father visits Chiba police to be briefed on case

Wednesday 17th September, 12:58 AM JST

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blue_monday at 07:47 PM JST - 16th September

I think he needs to start a campaign against the statute of limitations.
romulus3 at 08:07 PM JST - 16th September

progress 0/10. Japanese hospitality 10/10, anger 1,000,000/10
Samuraiiki at 09:00 PM JST - 16th September

He is being protected by the authorities. The fact that they let him go so easy. Smells like a big rotten maguro fish.
romulus3 at 09:34 PM JST - 16th September

Samuraiiki, hmmm. so protection means sending 9 cops to his house? No the cops are just inept, thats all. Most probably his gaijin hating family believed a lie he said about the circumstances of the crime and chose too protect him because of the evil Hawker girl who had shamed their wonderful son and Japan and got what she deserved. If they want to catch this guy, they should tail the family in every way but the fact is that they just want it to go away and forget it. They have many domestic murders to bumble around already. An international crime will win no sympathy from home so its sent to the trash bin. This whole thing is shame on Japanese people as a whole. If a Japanese girl suffered the same fate in my country the police would have done their heads in to find the scum because the concept of GAIJIN is illegal in my country.
Dogdog at 10:01 PM JST - 16th September

Wow, some people take their dislike of Japan too far!!!

Non-Japanese or Japanese victim, the police in this country are totally inept at anything apart from forcing a confession out of a person who is already detained.

Non-Japanese or Japanese perp, the perp, if they don't hand themselves in or return to the their place of abode, will live a carefree existence in another part of Japan,

There are plenty of cases of Japanese on Japanese violence, where the cases have remained unsolved.

This case is about the incompetence of those in authority in japan, rather than an unfounded criticism of Japanese attitudes towards non-Japanese.
uberloser at 10:28 PM JST - 16th September

Not unfounded at all.Trust me. I decline to elaborate.
kjunluc2 at 11:08 PM JST - 16th September

"Suspicion of abandoning a body". Why not suspicion of Murder one?
Dogdog at 11:37 PM JST - 16th September

"Suspicion of abandoning a body". Why not suspicion of Murder one?

It's how it always happens in Japan.

The police begin with a statement of fact (the accused interfered with the 'natural' day to day 'events' of ) and then you develop the case according to facts of law (the accused aided in the death of/ the manslaughter of / the malice aforethought death of ).

Initially at this stage, Japanese law is more enlightened that Anglo-American law, then.............
meanmutha at 12:42 AM JST - 17th September

romulus. Always well said and you write for me. Cheers.
buggerlugs at 12:50 AM JST - 17th September

uberloser; if you are refering to personal experience, then I can support your comments and say from experience also "Not unfounded at all".

my condolences to Mr Hawker and his family.
NYC_Samurai at 03:30 AM JST - 17th September

I'm sure the majority Japanese are ashamed of this crime. What perplexes me is that they don't realize how great they would look to the world if they found and convicted this guy.
Thenewfront at 06:03 AM JST - 17th September

memyself; The woman was British not gaijin. We cannot expect Japanese to respect our individuality if we do not recognise it ourselves.

The father of this poor British girl, should demand stronger action. perhaps get a British tv documentary show onto the case to expose the japanese apathy to this crime.

Japan is a dangerous country for women with chikan able to persue their perversions without prosecution. Japan has a police force which is the joke of the world.

You should see the bad press they got from British media, re this and the Blackman case.
soldave at 09:13 AM JST - 17th September

Thenewfront - that's the thing though, she is not seen as the British girl who was murdered; she is seen as the gaijin who got herself killed.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Japan is a dangerous country for women. Especially not compared to places like the UK & USA in general. The crimes here seem to be a little more messed up and perverse but I would suspect that it is safer in that regard here.
pointofview at 09:20 AM JST - 17th September

There should be more international pressure and the information about the case should be shown on major news channels everywhere. because there will be inadequate coverage on NHK. The public should be hunting this guy down too.
romulus3 at 11:35 AM JST - 17th September

I hope he is spotted and apprehended by a tough British banker with good punch on him. That would really throw egg in the face of the j-cops and public.