This is an update to the story I mentioned in a previous blog post about the Sumo murder case.
The stable master Junichi Yamamoto (formerly known by his Sumo name Tokitsukaze) andYuichiro Izuka, Masanori Fujii, and Masakazu Kimura, the three other Sumo wrestlers involved in the assault which resulted in the death of 17 year old Takashi Saito have been indicted as of Friday, February 28th.
Three students at Kyoto Sangyo University have also been given warnings after more Japanese graffiti was discovered at Florence Cathedral. One of the students gave excuses saying that he was so excited to be at a place he so respected, and since there was other graffiti there as well, he just went ahead and wrote.
The story in English on Mainichi can be found here:“Exec arrested for saving naked photo of junior high school girl on his mobile phone” It says the guy met the girl online (probably on one of the cell phone dating cites) then offered her a million yen to send him a photo. He got the…
Although this is just being reported now, the suicide happened in June of 2007! Although the family of the Indian student who committed suicide asked the Otemon Gakuin University to investigate, the school let this case sit on a shelf for 3 years. The university made no report until the bereaved family hired a lawyer…
Just a few brief notes about recent news stories that have come out. More message board posts from Kato have been found recently describing such things as The type of girl he likes His frustrations at not having a girlfriend By now everyone has seen translations of some of his message board posts describing each…
The story in a nutshell… a drunk driver speeding hit a family’s wagon from behind and pushed the wagon off the road and into Hakata Bay in Fukuoka. The 3 children aged 4, 3, and 1 died from drowning. The mother and father lived. Prosecutors asked for a 25 year sentence, but the court decided…