Man served with new arrest warrant for killing woman in Tokyo condo

Thursday 26th June, 06:56 AM JST

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rjd_jr at 07:30 AM JST - 26th June

Sickening, no doubt if convicted and evidence pans out he will be executed.
jalways at 08:01 AM JST - 26th June

It is very disturbing for myself including my family to see the change in the Japanese culture and specifically Japanese people. The alarming rate of theft, burglary, rape, assault, murder is very mind boggling to this citizenship. I remember growing up knowing the only judiciary court hearing was done once a week. Now I am guessing that court hearings are done on a daily base as the increase in crime rate has skyrocketed in the short years. It is almost easy to predict that the crime rate will continue to increase and the so called copy cat figures will be out to shadow the plan that was previously done already that relates to crime. May I suggest that we be aware and alert to our surroundings and guard ourselves from the evil that prevails in this beautiful land of Japan. I will re-echo what I stated in an earlier post, that it is fair and O.k. to step out of the box and follow your heart in helping people. Lets start with a smile and keep your head up, stop sleeping on the trains it is getting old very fast. Do something productive and keep your minds occupied. I know that we can help the crime stay down if we were cautious and alert to everything that we do and if there is anything suspicious, REPORT IT!
japanyesterday at 09:31 AM JST - 26th June

man i cant even watch my parents cut up meat, how do these people pull it off?
asdfghjkl at 09:35 AM JST - 26th June

If guilty.... execution him!
LFRAgain at 10:16 AM JST - 26th June

jalways,

I agree. In the 15 or so years since I became a self-proclaimed Japanophile, I've been disheartened by what seems to be an upward spiral with regard to violent crime, both in its frequency and brutality. I did my undergraduate thesis on crime in Japan, and when I compare what I discovered in the research then with what seems to be happening now, it's disturbing. Japan used to boast being a safe country, but even the locals no longer cling to this, realizing the reality is more along the lines of "safer," emphasis on the “er,” rather than the once-presumed and simpler "safe."

It's a problem that plagues all industrial societies. It just took longer to catch up to Japan. To Japan's credit, traditional family and social structures that are are the underpinnings of social interactions here did a fair job of fending off the worst of rampant consumerism. But in the end, it looks like it's no match for the juggernaut of urban decay.
nutsagain at 10:37 AM JST - 26th June

Urban decay? In part your right but the real heart of the matter is moral decay. Yeah I know... what is morality anyway? Our grandparents knew and could demonstrate it through simply showing good manners at all occasions and treating others as they would like to be treated. It's that simple... Yet we cannot do it. Or so it seems. The new role models? Brand goods, Sex in the City, new stuff, Sex in the City, endless shopping sprees and to consume, consume, consume.

Here endeth the sermon.
fds at 11:07 AM JST - 26th June

i wonder if its a growth in crime or a growth in the news reporting of crimes. before the police used to keep serial crimes quiet so they could try and catch the perpetrators or blow off minor crimes in order to avoid the paper work. now the news won't let them.
LFRAgain at 01:12 PM JST - 26th June

Nutsagain,

Fair enough. I'm as much a card-carrying liberal as one can find, but even I know that somewhere along the way, society and people have lost the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, when there very clearly is a difference. As someone pointed out on another thread about some idiot college student defacing a World Heretige site, for many, the distinction is made only at the point of getting caught. Otherwise, anything goes, it would seem. Not my grandparents' or even my parents' generation, to be sure.
LFRAgain at 01:19 PM JST - 26th June

fds,

You may be on to something there. It seems that over the years, as the Japanese legal system has come under greater scrutiny from within and without for the way it both categorizes and reports crime, more things are making it to the public view. The drop in conviction rates in court stands as a evidence of this, I suspect. I don't know. I wonder if there's been a profound change in the way the media gathers its news. For example, where I'm front, there are reporters whose sole job is to cover a particular police precinct and report on what happens there. How do Japanese journalists chase down the news here, besides having much of it fed to them through official mouthpieces?
VS at 01:55 PM JST - 26th June

The believe the sentence should be the same as what they perp did.

But I have to say, japanese people are not aware of dangers around them.
VS at 01:57 PM JST - 26th June

by the way, it was obvious to me that the perp was someone who lived in the apt if there was no videos of anyone suspicious leaving the premises. the cops should have opened all apartments where no one answered to and do a search. they could have saved that girl.
LFRAgain at 04:50 PM JST - 26th June

the cops should have opened all apartments where no one answered to and do a search. they could have saved that girl.

I believe Japanese law has some provisions regarding illegal search and seizure. Not opening a door or not being home is not probable cause enough to enter a person's home without permission.
Eizenhauer at 07:28 PM JST - 26th June

Yeah, I agree with jalways, we should keep our eyes open all the time and keep our minds at higher alert level when we are out of our houses. This poor woman died and probably screamed for her life at least once. Whoever heard the scream obviously didn't do hack all about it, or thinking "ah, someone is having fun"... React! Report! Call the police! Do something! If i was in Akihabara on the day when that loonatic killed 8 people i would have taken a bicycle (abundant everywhere) and hit the psycho real hard with it to save those people's lives.