Here is another one of those stories that pop up every now and again that seem to indicate some Japanese men have a definite problem interacting with members of the opposite sex.
In this episode, Daisuke Nunomura, a 28-year old male employee of Skymark Airlines has been arrested for abusing a female coworker whom he locked in his car for five hours at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
Nunomura originally met his 28-year old cabin attendant victim about two years ago, and immediately started to bombard her with e-mails and letters. Apparently upset that she spurned his love attack, Nunomera ambushed the woman and forced her into his car, where he held her captive for about five hours, during which Nunomura allegedly head-butted the woman.
The woman eventually was able to escape by telling Nunomura that she needed to go to the toilet. She an e-mail message to a friend when Nunomura left her alone.
Nunomura admits to the charges against him, but refuses to give police a reason for acting as he did, telling them, “I’ll tell you about the motive for my crime later.”
Ain’t love grand!
Is it possible to email the police directly? If so, what’s the “emergency” email address? I’d be surprised if this service isn’t available.
Good question, Nick.
I checked it out using Japanese GOOGLE (click here for search results in Japanese) and found out that each prefecture has its own emergency (110) mail address that people can use to report crimes. Since they are prefecture-specific, the mail address you need to use is different depending on the prefecture you are located (or where the crime is located, I guess).