Friends Kill Girl Over LINE Message, Dump Body In Mountains

Japanese netizens have been horrified by the news that a sixteen year old girl was effectively murdered by lynch mob over messages she sent on the popular smartphone application, LINE.

Since six out of the seven arrested in connection with the crime are still only 16, their identity is protected by the Japanese Juvenile Law, prompting many netizens to call for a change in the penal system

Japanese police search the mountain area where the victim’s body was found.

From Yahoo! Japan:

“We All Assaulted Her Together”: 6 Acquaintances Of 16 Year Old Girl Arrested On Suspicion Of Disposing Of Her Body, Hiroshima Prefecture Police

In the case where an unemployed girl (16) (Higashi ward, Hiroshima) has been arrested on suspicion of illegally disposing of a corpse for having abandoned a female body in the mountains of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, which is assumed to be her former classmate (16), the prefectural police Kure division investigation team further arrested 6 people who were acquaintances of the girl on July 17.

Those newly arrested are Seto Taihei (21; unemployed) of Bessho, Yurihama, Tottori Prefecture, two 16 year old boys, both of whom live in Yonehama, Tottori Prefecture, and three 16 year old girls, all of whom live in Kure.

According to the investigation team, Seto denies the allegations, “It’s true that I went to the scene, but I didn’t dispose of the corpse”. The remaining five people admit the charges, with some saying that “we all assaulted her together”.

The six arrested suspects were complicit with the girl who was previously arrested, and are suspected of having disposed of a female corpse in the mountains of Tochibaracho, Kure, in late June.

Police say that the six disposed of the corpse at dawn, the woman got into the car with the girls in downtown Hiroshima, and went to the mountains. Seto is assumed to have been the driver of the car.

The girl who was arrested first explained that “We headed for the mountains in the car, and I got out of the car with the victim. I punched, strangled, and murdered her”. However, the girl and the victim did not hold driver’s licenses, and it was revealed that the girl had exchanged messages with acquaintances on the smartphone application LINE, where they had said “We’ll get arrested too”. The participation of the other six people surfaced during the course of the investigation.

Regarding her motive for the crime, the girl testified that “She had been slandering me on LINE”. On July 17, the girl started to talk about “assaulting [the victim] with her friends”. She said that there was also some money trouble between the two. Police are investigating the detailed course of events, with the prospect of pressing charges for murder.

source:http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/friends-kill-girl-over-line-message-dump-body-in-mountains.html

Photo Of Student Inserting Public Tap Into Ass Causes Waves

Netizens have been shocked by the latest in a whole series of prank photographs posted on Twitter.

Over the past few months, prank photographs have been everywhere, with some not only attracting significant online attention, but also resulting in serious repercussions for those involved.

Now, a man thought to be a university student is at the centre of a scandal for inserting a drinking-water tap at a public park into his now public posterior.
Are these prank photos showing Japan’s lighter side? Or are they taking things a step too far?

In the never-ending series of prank pictures posted on networks such as Twitter, a photograph where a man who looks to be a student in his twenties takes down his trousers in a public park and seems to stick a water tap into his bottom was posted online. The poster tweeted “Getting filled up”.

The man in the picture is apparently a student registered with the law faculty of Kokugakuin University (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo). The photograph was actually uploaded on May 10, but the university’s office of student affairs explained that “Information about the picture only reached us in late August. We are in the middle of an investigation, which includes finding out whether or not the man in the picture is one of our students. Our response to the picture will be decided after this.”

It is possible that the act of revealing the lower half of one’s body in a public place can amount to the crime of indecent exposure. The location of the park where the photograph was taken is unknown. The man has already deleted his Twitter account.

source:http://www.japancrush.com/2013/pictures/photo-of-student-inserting-public-tap-into-ass-causes-waves.html

Foreigner Arrested For Smashing Statues Of Buddha At Sensoji

2ch netizens have been shocked by the news that a Saudi Arabian man who is a graduate student at one of Japan’s most prestigious universities had been arrested for smashing Buddhist statues after he was reported to police for doing so at one of Tokyo’s major temples.

The man, a student at Keio University, admitted the smashing Buddhas at Sensoji Temple and hinted that he had been responsible for other, similar crimes.
The story, filed under “crimes by foreigners” by Sankei MSN, has prompted some responses that relate to fears of an increasing foreign presence in Japan, while others have pointed out that idolatry in all forms is forbidden in Islam, and might therefore have prompted the man’s behavior.

From MSN Sankei:

Buddha Statue Smashed at Sensoji Temple, Saudi Arabian Graduate Student At Keio University Arrested; Implicated In Damage At Other Temples

The damage to the statues.

At around 1:10am on June 11, there was a call to a police box of the Asakusa division of the Metropolitan Police that stated “a foreign man has smashed a statue of Buddha” at Sensoji Temple, Taito ward, Tokyo. In the grounds of the temple, police also discovered four other statues of Buddha that had cracks in them. When the man, who had been close to Sensoji’s main hall, was voluntarily questioned by police, he admitted damaging the statues of Buddha. Therefore, he was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

The arrested man is Saudi Arabian national Mohammad Abdullah Saad (31), a graduate student at Keio University resident in Minamikase, Saiwai ward, Kawasaki City. The man is said to have hinted that he “has smashed Buddhas at other temples”, and police are in the process of confirming this.

In the small hours of June 11, the suspect allegedly smashed three stone Jizo bosatsu and one bronze statue of Kannon.

According to police, the statues of Buddha that were damaged were those in small wayside shrines without doors and those in the open air.

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source:http://www.japancrush.com/2014/stories/foreigner-arrested-for-smashing-statues-of-buddha-at-sensoji.html