A top executive with Japan Rail has killed himself after being arrested for groping a schoolgirl, which he denied even in his suicide note.
The 56-year-old branch manager of JR’s Hanwa Line was accused of touching the nether regions of a 17-year-old schoolgirl through her clothes whilst on a train, and was arrested and charged under Osaka prefectural anti-groping laws.
He protested his innocence despite the girl’s accusation, saying “I may have brushed her arm but I have no recollection of groping her.”
Police attempted to prolong his detention whilst they “investigated” further, but courts decided it was safe to release him despite his insolent protestations of innocence, and also denied a police appeal against this reckless decision.
Shortly after his release he went missing, only to be discovered dead in an Osaka public toilet, having apparently hanged himself. He left a note proclaiming “I am not a chikan.”
Online there are some doubts about the case:
“You can’t help but think that a world where the mere suspicion you are a dirty chikan is enough to force you to suicide is insane.”
“Don’t kill yourself if the accusation is false!”
“If it was just a false accusation, you wouldn’t normally kill yourself over it. He was probably guilty.”
“No, it was a false accusation so he killed himself as there was no way to clear his name?”
“He wouldn’t have killed himself if he were actually doing it and got caught.”
“”Even if you are a chikan, it is not worth killing yourself over.”
“Haven’t you people been falsely accused of something? If nobody will believe you are innocent you might well decide to kill yourself.”
“Why don’t the mass media go an quiz chikan victims on how they feel about this for once?”
“He could have recovered from the charges.”
“It was over for him, I doubt he would have been able to recover from this. He could have lived on peacefully in seclusion I suppose.”
“There is no way he could have recovered and started over – he was a career executive in a huge company, come on.”
“Why do you guys only ever assume chikan are innocent and condemn everyone else?”
“Why does this country assume all those accused of this are guilty and that they deserve to die? It’s madness.”
“JR will soon need to consider men-only carriages!”
“Cameras and separate carriages are needed.”
“What were the courts thinking to allow them to release this man!”
“What was this girl doing out of the women only carriage.”
“If it was a false charge he should have worked to fix the rail system so it stops producing all these cases.”
“Right. The real problem here is the rail system which keeps cramming together passengers and so producing both these chikan and all the false accusations. If you can arrest chikan, JR should also be held accountable for creating this environment.”
Men of Japan are in great danger. Japanese women are the apex predators there.
Great graphics, Artefact, once again you’ve outdone yourself.
You know that something is wrong with your country when you need to keep people of different gender away from one another.
“Don’t Kill yourself if the accusation is false.”
Shit. Don’t kill yourself even if the accusation is true! Jeebus.
I can see why he killed himself. I blame the police.
Such a sad society… What can actually help the japanese to not to be so depended on the own image?
The bottom line here is that a man was driven to suicide over possibly groping a girl. Even if he was guilty, the system has failed. And if he wasn’t, the girl and her supporters have just indirectly killed a man. If he was innocent, I hope she stews in her guilt. And if he wasn’t, I hope she realizes that a grope isn’t worth driving a man to suicide over.
And to all you kids saying “suicide isn’t the answer”: shut the fuck up. You’ve never been there. And if you have, then kudos for being a successful train businessman before being accused of raping a girl, you self-righteous little twats.
guilty for being male; just like everywhere else
Kind of reminds that older news about student that commited suicide after similar accusations (and IIRC, the women admitted they were falese and were doing it only out of spite/greed).
When people commit suicide because of that, it shows how brainwashed, hierarchical and antique the society of the whole Japan can be in reality.
God damn it japan.
He probably did it because he thought even if he was proven innocent it would ruin his career.
The depressing thing about this is, if he was indeed innocent, the girl will probably be laughing and joking about it with whoever she hangs around with.
if, would be me – false accused.
I would wait in prison and when I get out. I would kill girl, her family, cop, prosecutor, and judge. Then I will made a video of this, and uploaded it on you tube.
To reminder all of those scumbags, that I will not tolerate mistakes and false accusations.
Their courts are sure biased. If it was a random salaryman, not Japan Rail executive, he wouldn’t be released so easily without police forcing him to admit the guilt.
Know the best way to prove your innocence? Killing yourself.
If you can’t prove your innocence, and feel your life is over, then you often don’t think logically. Shame you think people with suicidal thoughts are rational.
Damn those molestation pics are hot. Can’t help but fap fap fap
Wouldn’t it be interesting if it turned out that the girl’s father also worked for JR in a position such that thanks to this guy killing himself, her father finds himself in a position to take the departed’s now-vacant post or at least get a promotion to the next higher position?
I heard there are even cases in which the girls team up with others and threaten to report some rich looking white collars on train as chikan if they don’t give em money.
Not Worth Killing Yourself Over. D:
Quite disconcerting if you are in the railroad business and learn the hard way what can happen on what you have, in a way, been helping to bring about. And if you have to have second thoughts about your job, you won’t be able to run for long.
Doesn’t really matter if he did or didn’t do it. Once the media gets hold of it his reputation and standing in the community are destroyed. Even if proven innocent later no one will care.
It’s a shame men have to be driven to self destruction over something so trivial as grabbing someones ass.
Yeah. Decriminalize groping!
yeah! Decriminalize it!
come on! It’s japan!
It should be legal to be a chikan
-captain ‘murika
The worst part of it is that pricks or “swag” gives some men the right to in a sense here in the USA. Some women even love it. To me, it’s not even right let alone “gentlemanly” to even look at a woman that insistingly. Men should always be a Gentlemen. Hold doors open and shit like that. True we can act like monsters or brutes, but only when a lady isn’t present ya know?
Speaking from a “nerd,” Women should be feared tbh…some of them are fucking monsters.
Women are objects and should be treated as such. Deal with it.
It’s true, but also true for men, sadly.
And you are a spineless worm. Deal with it.
Why should we? I’m kind of baffled why men are still shoehorned into an very old and outdated role model.
We still have to take immense pains upon us to give people benefits who simply don’t deserve them.
Why should we have to prostrate ourselves to adhere to old ideals and rules when the other side doesn’t have to adher to their part anymore?
Do you really think any girl will thank you for acting like that? No! Most of the time they’ll either think that you are a creep or simply want to get into their panties.
Of course they take it anyway since it benefits them, but don’t expect them to respect you or act in a “lady like” manner.
There used to be two sides to this, one is gone, why trying to keep the other alive when it only detrimential to you?
I hate to admit it but I agree, men are not the only ones that should be pushed into being gentlemen. If women don’t want to act as proper as they should and be ladylike, why should a man have to act as a gentleman?
I prefer to act as ladylike as I can to everyone, not saying that I am a pompous prissy girl or anything but I always follow “Treat others how you wish to be treated”. It’s really not that hard of a saying to follow as people try and make it sound. @.@
If women want to act like idiotic bimbos then men should have the right to act like jackasses.
That’s how I see it.
It’s still the same old routine for men that it was a hundred years ago. The “perfect gentleman” of yesteryear, the “sexy jerkass”, and the powerful and wealthy elite are still the three roles a man must play to be “sexually liberated.”
Not many men can pull that off. The rest of them are still stuck with having to be patient and lucky. Some of them can’t cope with it. And now their outlets (some criminal) are being taken away from them (often a good thing, too). Worse, even the archetypes are seeing those outlets taken away.
So while I wouldn’t say “take pity on men” or “women have it better”, I will say that you have to view this as a traditional social pressure on men that’s at least as powerful as the equivalent ones on women that make them wear makeup and short skirts. It’s part and parcel of living in a time when these roles are being redefined, and many people are being left behind as a result.
You can be whatever kind of man you want. There’s no “should” and there’s no “always be”.
Be whoever the fuck you want and let the world deal with you as it sees fit.
Umm…sexual assault isn’t trivial, like…at all. But I agree that no one should feel the need to kill themselves over groping.
And may luck be with you, because when you try that you’ll be regarded as some sort of fruitcake who can’t be a real man (unless you’re hot, rich, or both).
they dont get it do they?
if you get arrested for something like this. and then got released in a way its described in this article. people will still think your guilty even if your innocent. his good name was destroyed and would probably have destroyed his career as well.
welcome to japan, where anything that false is flase and anythang true is flase buoi.
Name of Manga/CG please T.T
Can somebody tell me what’s the name of that manga?
redlight – Stop It You Train-Molester
midnight express
The only thing interesting is the manga. What is name?
You could say that this guy is a true samurai. He actually commit suicide to defend his honor.
If it me I would have hire people to harass the girl and her family. Mongrel need to learn their place.
I would have sued the police for wrongful arrest and prolonged detention then slapped the bitch with a defamation lawsuit.
In most first world countries they have to either have a case or they must let you go.
Suspicion and a verbal accusation is not enough.
Yeah..in first world countries…but this got me confused though..japan is rich…but what category does it belong to? first world? or what?
well, some people there still think in barbaric ways…
well, yeah i agree..
should have sued the police and sued the girl for oral defamation..
bet she was ugly
-captain ‘murika
When it comes to rape or sexual harassment accusations, such legal procedures are typically thrown out the window. Look at Strauss-Khan. A very rich man, yet accused of raping a maid, and despite the maid having no solid proof to her claim, the proceedings still went on.
At this age, if you’d have to lose precious time because of a snowballing trifle, you wouldn’t be very much against giving it all up.
You don’t defend shit by committing suicide. It’s just self-gratification and masturbation.
You fix the shit, THEN do whatever you need to do. Suicide is a cop out and the fact that they think suicide can solve anything reveals fundamentally ignorant and infantile side of japanese mentality.
No, it’s suicide. You try being in a high-pressure position where you can’t make the slightest error. Then get accused of something that immediately makes you seem guilty in everyone’s eyes, and lose your closest and most loyal peers out of fear that the businesses’ reputation will suffer. Then lose your family because your wife can no longer trust you. Then see your face in all the papers and on TV, with the words “chikan” written under them. Then be told you’re guilty over and over, until you want to die.
Not every successful businessperson is an evil tyrant, or an elite who can get away with murder. Some of them are nervous and hard-working people who have so much stress in their lives they want to commit suicide when something like this happens.
Because there’s no way she was telling the truth, right? Idiot.
They can both be telling the truth, even. It’s quite unthinkable, but he could still be, say, a pickpocket. Or bug planter.
Hewwww, when I saw the picture I thought the artist Redlight has commited suicide. Thankfully not.
Another reason not to ride public transit. Haha…
I’m so happy I do not need to depend on public transportation.
It doesn’t matter whether or not you did the crime so long as your male you will always be guilty
So why do all of those rapists(even teachers) consistently get off with no punishment?
Power brings corruption. Women also get away with it quite routinely. At least, the few who’ve been permitted to get that high up in the traditional social ranks.
Governmental jobs operate under an entirely different set of rules. And by that, I mean they’re above the law, thanks to a corrupt system.
JR is a private company.
JR is a private company since 1987. It does have the image of a public railway, but it’s not actually one.
Come to think of it, I rode the Hanwa-Line almost every day when I lived in Japan. I wonder where their branch office is at.
The railway is less corrupt than the schools?
But if he was a public railway exec. then would that not make him a government employee.
Just in this case he also happened to be an exec so that makes him an even easier target for empowered paupers.
Once you get arrested for this crime of molesting girls on train, even you are not yet proven guilty, the stress in you builds up when other ppl around you suspects you. I guess he thinks the only way to clear his name is to die.
Then either don’t go around other people or stop giving a fuck. Ending your life is not the solution.
You try being in his position before you open spouting your inane gibberish.
In the US he could counter sue and maybe get some money.
and maybe leave japan
You are not in his shoes. So you don’t know how hard he has got it in Japan!!!
@14:24 There are things worse than death. I.e. being fired because of your reputation as a molester, then getting a divorce because you are a molester, then being unable to get another employment because you are a molester, then your neighbors are watching your every move and talking behind your back, because you are a molester. Then your property is vandalised because you are a molester. And nobody even wants to speak to you because you are a molester. Your bartender won’t serve you drinks. Because you are a molester.
And this goes on. Forever.
@11:19
You know what else “adversely affects your life”? Death. And it’s quite permanent.
Japan is a very judgmental society where everyone cares about their image and public perception. Frankly, they had a point, because image is very important in Japan. A poor image could adversely affect your life there more so than anywhere else. If you do not get in line, that society will give you a hard enough time to make you want to kill yourself.
Being born a woman in Japan automatically makes you one of the highest members of society!
Nope, all they do is make coffee and sandwiches.
I agree..well and cakes…
-Captain ‘murika
>have vagina
>sell body for money
>receive expensive ‘gifts’
>receive public assistance
>’earn’ more tips than male coworkers
>never go without a roof over your head
>have penis
>have to beg for money, just eat from the dollar menu
>have to fight for custody, even if the woman is declared ‘unfit’
>get labeled a rapist, molester, deadbeat, pig, etc
>forced to sleep under a bridge, after everything goes south
yeah, women have it so hard…
Why does ‘sell body for money’ and ‘recieve expensive gifts’ rank high on on things that are meant to make life easy?
Men can whore too, and if they did, they’d know it wasn’t all sunshine and free cars. That shit is horrible, you get paid less the more you do it and nothing ever feels right again.
Fuck you, you know nothing.
14:23
u mad bro?
>have a vagina
>get a degree in ‘liberal arts’
>work as a ‘secretary’, for nearly nothing
>boss compliments your work performance
>have sex, later call it ‘rape’
>fired for missing too many days
>strangers see your ‘baby bump’, give up their seat
Yeah, women sure have it so hard.
>Have a vagina and a penis
>AWESOME!!
>:D
Yay Futanari!!~
Men whining about how women are privileged are just as annoying as women whining how men are privileged. Gender makes a lot of difference, fucking deal with it.
>Have a vagina
>I fuck you
>I rape you
>I train you
>You love me
>You bear me kids
Having a penis is awesome.
>Have a vagina
>Get lower wage than your male coworker for the same job
>Get harassed by your boss
>Get fired if you dare get pregnant
>Get harrassed on train
>Get raped
and so on ….
Yeah, woman sure have it so easy …
@Anon 09:11
for themselves, while their husbands slave off at work.
I want to have one has a wife. Such class they have.
(09:12 same)
*as [not has]
Not as high as a policeman. Hehehe.
Japanese women are treated like shit, especially in the workforce. This guy probably had some other shit going on that forced him to commit suicide, since sexual harassment is a-ok in the Japanese corporate world.
Or he wasn’t exactly young.
I’m curious how far up your ass you had to reach to pull that one out.
in view of the public officials being able to openly molest children it is ridiculous to see such charges being nearly imposable to defend your self from….and the police being such prominent
offenders in the molestation of kids …how can they even face the public and say any thing about other people….
fap-alicious ass for sure
If you need to go, use a soapland or redlight district. I am sure they will have what you want, whatever fetish that might be.
This sexism needs to stop.
Men-only carriages are the only way to go, so guys can at least relax and not fear to have a career ending accusation pop out of nowhere and destroy their lives.
And make no mistake, an accusation like that in Japan can pretty much destroy a japanese guy.
Btw, I was using for over 2 years a very crowded JR Line that brought me to the Shinjuku hub and it was so crowded that I accidentally came in contact with many people and I am quite sure the only thing that saved me from being accused of being a chikan was that I am not japanese.
hmmm….so what i got was…
“You can’t be arrested or accused of being a chikan..if you’re not Japanese”
well then…japan, i shall go and groping school girls , shall be done.
-captain ‘murika
What is your ethnicity/nationality?
Carriage for men, carriage for women… We are traps supposed to go in this system?
In my van.
There shall be a Hideyoshi carriage!
The Bus.
@pirateking
not so sure about that, I’m asian and I just
came from tokyo and its overly-crowded ‘yamanote loop lines’, and there were three instances where the back of my hand came in contact with other women’s rears (due to people rushing out, I was pushed against other people), but I was never accused of anything.. it wasn’t a light ‘brush’ either, almost a ‘full on’ contact
Gender segregation? Holy incestuous Batman, Japan is turning Islamist. lol
Or a mental ward.
A while back a woman sitting next to me on the train quickly got up and stepped on my foot as she left. It took me a few stunned seconds to realize that I might’ve touched her arm with my fingers as I was reaching for the phone in my inner jacket pocket.
That’s called “a bitch”. You run into them from time to time, just like you run into “pricks” from time to time. Pay no mind, and just be thankful she didn’t scream “rape!”.
well, people suck, just forget about it : )
Yeah why do only females get their own carriages? Guys need one too.
If all the females are in their own carriages, then all the men will also be in their own carriages, won’t they?
It’s voluntary and not 50/50, so no, not at all.
I believe some railways do offer male only cars too. Just not many.
Better fix do away with this guilty until innocent shit and holding people without trial.
Do away with the intense interrogations for what are minor crimes.
Next much tougher standard for joining the police force so you have police who know the difference between a serious claim and someone crying wolf.
The Japanese national police might need to fire half of their detectives as they won’t make the new requirements.
Better still, don’t treat a grope like a serious case of murder or a gangbang rape. It may be wrong, but you don’t go around hanging people for being crass jerks, so why ruin a man’s life over it? It’s not like woman don’t play a little anonymous grabass from time to time.
“And make no mistake, an accusation like that in Japan can pretty much destroy a japanese guy.”
You have no idea how Japanese society actually works, do you? Hint: it’s not like what you see in anime and on SanCom.
Actually, Seems you don’t know anything about Japanese society or in this matter, any society what so ever.. Something that damaging will have LARGE and wide ramifications on someone’s personal life! Read the news, something like this has ALREADY happened, and a man’s entire life was DESTROYED. Even though he was finally found innocent, it was too late because his life was DESTROYED!
What are you? American, Brazilian?
Isn’t being filthy foreigner making you more of a target? Especially if you got a backpack or/and are fat/ugly.
Well, there’s always things like girl brushes against you then accuses you of groping her and have her pimp back her up. Pay up or get accused and deported.
Think before you post.
Lol! *facepalm*
By the artists description of the said events in the pictures at the top, he did and it must have been so good a feeling for the old man he went to heaven…. *_____*
Dat ass grab.
What are you doing to Kuroko?
Dat ass pinch.
*Rawr*
What I don’t understand is, if you honestly did not do it, what need is there to commit suicide? Doesn’t that just show that you couldn’t handle that you did do it?
What a loser.
Nothing says guilty like suicide.
With his income he can rent loli’s by the hour. Why be greedy and try for free? And why not buy her off to drop the charge anyway? 50K yen and a new cell phone would have done the trick.
Not everyone is a sex fiend who wants to get away with murder. Some of them are so worried about their reputation that they will kill themselves over it. Especially in Japan.
“I have no recollection” is not much of a denial.
It’s not a denial, it’s a refusal to admit guilt. These things matter in law.
I bet it suffers in the translation. Many japanese statements are vague like that. It’s a cultural thing.
I think this was all just a misunderstanding. I think what he meant to say was: “I am not a chicken.”
It answers so many questions.
didn’t read, fapped to the picture
the end
Weak country, weak society.
Weak post, by a weak mind.
innocent people don’t hang themselves
Crawl back under your rock of ignorance.
not when honor is involved, white piggu
Piggu is not a Japanese word, stupid weaboo.
You sure korean
clearly you’re too stupid to under humor, you filthy otaku.
who is with me, in praying for a final devastating earthquake and tsunami too end all tsunamis, to wipe the japanese nation from the face of the earth?
Seriously , they are THE most vile species to have ever infected the earth. Tho, some of the chicks are pretty hot and always MORE then willing to come running to us westerners for satisfaction, seeing as all there men are such vomit endusing herbivore losers.
Oh yeah? Shouldn’t it be the guilty ones who don’t hang themselves because they keep looking for new opportunities to molest women?
It doesn’t matter if the courts acquitted charges against him. The fucked up Japanese society at large has already laid the sentences down; they’d disown him, curse him when he’s not looking, and isolate him from everyone else. And he’s lost his job and his entire family would have to suffer constant strange looks and laughs from their collegues and classmates.
To summarize…
1. People will always remember what you are charged in court for, and not that innocent verdict they’d give you later.
2. You are an asshole. I hope you get incarcerated for an embarrassing crime you never committed.
[quote]People will always remember what you are charged in court for, and not that innocent verdict they’d give you later.[/quote]
The courts never declare anyone innocent. A trail either ends with a “guilty” or “not guilty” sentence. If irrefutable evidence in your favor is discovered, the charges are simply dropped without a verdict.
IANAL, TINLA
should doing seppuku infront that girl house to proof his is innocent and to gain his dignity.