Osaka tennis coach arrested for indecent behavior with high school girl

Thursday 05th February, 10:28 AM JST

OSAKA —

A 59-year-old male tennis coach was arrested on Wednesday, accused engaging in indecent behavior with a minor and thus violating the Child Welfare Law.

According to police, Meiji Kamaguchi, owner of the Osaka Tennis Academy located in Suminoe Ward of Osaka City, engaged in indecent behavior with a pupil of his who was 16 at the time, which included taking her clothes off and embracing her, in his house and his car between March 2002 and April the following year.

Police said the girl lived with a dozen or so other female pupils in the dormitory built into Kamaguchi’s house, and that a male pupil’s dormitory was also nearby. The tennis pupils came from all over the country, and attended a private high school in Osaka prefecture.

Police received information in December last year that the former student was subjected to indecent behavior, and another student has also claimed she was subjected to similar behavior. Kamaguchi has denied the allegations.

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tmarie at 02:08 PM JST - 5th February

How about we wait to find out if he is guilty before we burn him at the stake.
Yelnats at 02:38 PM JST - 5th February

% year sentence suspended for 7 years. He will claim he was drunk.
herefornow at 02:45 PM JST - 5th February

Do you think he asked her to practice her forehand or backhand grip?
VA2Tokyo at 02:59 PM JST - 5th February

Herefornow --- LOL!! I say backhand.
dennis0bauer at 03:07 PM JST - 5th February

i guess he showed her some moves
samsarks at 03:07 PM JST - 5th February

well,it is good he has been arrested.let him face the law to its full extent .
harkins at 05:55 PM JST - 5th February

VA2Tokyo - What 'IF' he is innocent? And what IF it was your father being accussed? As much as there are a lot of perverts out there, it strikes me that there are just as many people prepared to make false accusations these days.

Are there any repercussions in Japanese law for falsely making these types of accusations?
BBLeo at 07:55 PM JST - 5th February

What a big 'dormitory' built into his house. 'He was a King looking for a princess.' I wonder is there are any more that will come forward. Another one did report similar issue, is there any more. This bastard should be sterilized and punished with maximum sentence. Oh boy, II like to be his judge. 'Was he ever in Australia for 'GRAND SLAM?'
shouganaika at 10:03 PM JST - 5th February

altria, good one. I had to read twice to catch it
martyman at 10:28 PM JST - 5th February

Lets do the math, she is 22/23 years old now and the information passed was Dec 2008. Why would it be an issue now? Is there a statue of limitations for the prosection of certain crimes? I am not condoning the alleged indecent behavior, but can only see maybe either revenge for the behavior or payback for bad grades.
PepinGalarga at 12:54 AM JST - 6th February

if he plays hardball he will get off scot free. there's no physical evidence.
Molenir at 06:16 AM JST - 6th February

There are apparently other victims though. My experience is, when you have a sexual predator, theres never just one victim. And as the article says, at least one other person has stepped forward admitting that she was also molested.
likeitis at 08:57 PM JST - 6th February

My experience is, when you have a sexual predator, theres never just one victim.

We have someone experienced here.

My experience is that when one object of sexual attraction goes, he/she will be replaced. There is no need to make this a "sexual predator" thing. Its just human nature to find a new "partner".

So I wonder why he did not just date them on the up and up? Oh yeah! Its illegal!

My experience is, for every female who complains, there are 2 or more who did not give a crap. But they come forward even slower than the ones with a complaint, female modesty being what it is.

Yeah, there are more, we both know it. But I am not going to weigh that fact down with buzzwords like "victim" and "sexual predator" to assist gross assumptions of intended harm or damage done. There are reasons the others have not come forward, but I doubt you will ever accept all the possible and even very probable reasons because it ruins the fun of assuming the worst.
Molenir at 03:45 AM JST - 7th February

My experience is, for every female who complains, there are 2 or more who did not give a crap. But they come forward even slower than the ones with a complaint, female modesty being what it is.

Maybe I'm misreading the tone of your post here. But it sounds to me like you are saying that this is nothing. She waited for awhile, so wheres the harm. This whole attitude really bothers me. Girls who are raped often feel too ashamed, and too afraid to come forward until years later. It doesn't change the fact that a crime was committed. Nor does the time mitigate the suffering those individuals went through. Those who commit these crimes need to be held accountable. Even years later. Maybe you've just never seen the results personally, when someone you know and care about is hurt like this. Seen their personality change completely afterwards, and remain changed for years. If you did, if you had any experience, you wouldn't make posts like the one above.

Its not about accusing someone, or thinking the worst of them. In fact I rather hope I'm wrong. I hope sincerely that its a girl crying wolf with a friend backing her up. I just suspect that it isn't, and apparently so do the police. That says a lot to me right there, especially considering how hesitant the cops often are to believe sex crime has been committed.
likeitis at 12:20 PM JST - 7th February

Maybe I'm misreading the tone of your post here. But it sounds to me like you are saying that this is nothing.

It is something. A woman is complaining. There must be a reason, although it could be incriminating of the man or inciminating of herself. On that, I think we agree.

Girls who are raped often feel too ashamed, and too afraid to come forward until years later.

This is not about rape. Its about molestation. But the delayed reaction also applies, yes.

Those who commit these crimes need to be held accountable. Even years later.

Yes. But I also wish that those who may have set the stage to the crime could also be held accountable.

Assuming that this really did happen, again, I point out that he had no option to date this woman when she was a teenager. He had no option to treat her in a correct and decent manner or in an open fashion. No surprise he went the sneaky lowlife route then, is it?

You may believe that a 16 year old is in no way prepared for such a relationship, nor should be raised to be. But I would argue she is even less prepared for her tennis coach to abuse his authority and molest her.

I would not be surprised if the whole arrangement of dorm and being a tennis coach were centered around his desire to date a girl or two of this age. You may condemn that. But it seems that the result of the condemnation might have been this whole scenario, and got teenage girls involved who were not interested instead of keeping it with those who might have been. He spread his desire thinly among many girls, because to place it all in one would have been actually more risky, and that is no matter how that one girl feels about it.

Maybe you've just never seen the results personally, when someone you know and care about is hurt like this. Seen their personality change completely afterwards, and remain changed for years. If you did, if you had any experience, you wouldn't make posts like the one above.

Or not. I learned long ago that one crying woman is not a representative of her sex. As much as I may pity that particular woman, I know others who are pretty non-chalant about things like this. Heck, I knew one who talked about her own rape like it was the most fabulous gossip going. That was a rare one, I know, but it proves a point: Not all women would view this as molestation or something to pout their lives away about. Some "victims" may not be coming forward because they feel afraid. But others might certainly might not be coming forward because they fail to see the problem.