Tatsuya Ichihashi Captured! Tatsuya Who?
Don’t give me that shyte. If you’ve been in Japan for the last few years, or you’ve followed big news stories out of this country, you know about the Lindsay Hawker murder.
Ok, for those of you not in the know, I’ll catch you up.
Just over two and a half years ago, female Nova English Teacher, Lindsay Hawker from the UK, went missing. Police found a note with Ichihashi’s phone number and name on it in Hawker’s apartment. When police showed up to question Ichihashi at his apartment, he fled barefoot from the scene and the police on scene didn’t make much effort to go after him. After that, police discovered Hawker’s body in a bathtub on Ichihashi’s balcony, buried in sand. I know, I know… a bathtub on the balcony?! Filled with sand?! WTF?!
Anyway, local police were left hanging their heads in shame while a national manhunt ensued. Hawker’s family came to Japan to put pressure on police to capture the alleged (let’s face it, there’s nothing alleged about it - A bathtub on his balcony, for Chrissakes!) murderer. Particularly, Hawker’s father was very vocal, almost to the point of being annoying. But, when a loved one is taken from you, you’ve got the right. I guess.
I shouldn’t have to say it, but, personally, the murder of a foreign national living in Japan doesn’t need to be more in the spotlight than the murder of a Japanese citizen. I mean, Japanese or foreigner, a murder’s a murder. But, fair or not, once the story of the murder and the escaped suspect got rolling, all other murder news seemed to take a back seat. I mean, how many foreigners living in Japan are going to remember this murder case above all others reported in the last few years? About 98%, probably. Personally, the murder and dismemberment of a young Japanese lady whose remains were flushed down a toilet by her businessman neighbor sticks in my mind the most. But, I suppose that’s because the most important person in my life is a Japanese woman. I can’t say for sure, though.
Anyway, Ichihashi apparently had cosmetic surgery. However, he was reported via a phone tip to police because he was wearing a cap, sunglasses and a mask. Hey, genius. Way to go with the incognito getup. I mean, what the hell did you have the surgery for anyway? Hey, Ichihashi! I’m talking to you! Oh, you can’t talk now? Right, right, I see, you’re kind of busy now. Ok, an interview later, then? Alright, thanks dude!
And, Ichihashi’s old man keeps talking about how his son needs to be brought to answer for his deeds and stop disgracing the family. Give me a break! Ichihashi paid for his own cosmetic surgery and life on the run by making 10,000 yen per day at a construction job?!
Expect to see the father implicated for aiding a fugitive.
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One of the things I’ve noticed about Japanese media since I’ve come here is how once a story like this crops up, you’re just assaulted by the coverage of it. I was familiar with this story only in passing until this week. Now you can’t turn on the TV (not that I watch it much anyway) or read a Japanese newspaper without seeing one of this guy’s faces.
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‘Bout time this idiot got caught.
p/s - Good to see you back in the ol’ Mikan, Billy.
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@Blue Shoe:
Yeah, I’ll definitely be avoiding the TV news for awhile.
@JT:
Hey, Man! You still in Japan? Shoot me an email, either way.
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CIRCUS!!!!
It spawned me to add Sakakibara’s pic to my blog. 3 posts down. As a public service announcement
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There’s another killer on the loose - the one that left a Shimane student in pieces on a mountainside. Let’s hope they get that monster before he kills again. The news mentioned no leads yet.
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@Chris B:
Yeah, what that guy did is so far beyond imagination, I don’t blame you. The murdered kid’s father said it was so hard to walk around knowing he could be just steps away from the guy who did that to his child.
Awful…
@Chibaraki:
Here’s to hoping…
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Finally caught the sick mother f#@%&#r.
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They caught him, but not because they were actually trying.
If the perp isn’t a speeder (non-Bosozoku) or a drunk driver, the cops don’t feel particularly motivated to collar a suspect.
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It bothers me that he has still only “officially” been charged with abandoning a body. BTW the bathtub is more sinister than it may first appear. It actually wasn’t sand that he used but some kind of decomposition material similar to lime. I guess the idea was that if left long enough the body would fully decompose. Anyway, they got him let’s just hope the Keystone cops don’t lose him like they did 2 years ago.
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@Tornadoes:
Yep. Hopefully, he’ll confess quickly.
@CrazyGaijin:
The official charge of abandoning a body is par for the course. I’m no expert on Japan law, but I’m sure it has to be easier to get the arrest warrant quickly when circumstantial evidence points most strongly to an act. Abandoning a body is pretty cut and dried, the elements of the crime being few and easy enough to prove to a reasonable degree of certainty.
Hope they’re building a good case for a murder charge, but knowing the confession rate is so high here, it’s likely they’ll go for that first.
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Not make this into a media circus? Is that possible?
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If he confesses, and there’s no need for a trial, I guess it won’t turn into one. I’m doing my best not to have enough free time to watch TV and get sick of the news
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They finally got the bastard. Good! I hope they hang the sick piece of shit.
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[...] References: MSN Regional : Japanese man charged with murdering British woman 7:10 to Tokyo: Tatsuya Ichihashi captured Telegraph : Tatsuya Ichihasi refusing to eat Japan Probe: Examining the new face of Tatsuya [...]
Defendant Ichihashi becomes a popular person as “a handsome man” on the Japanese bulletin board.
It is supposed that I “love Ichihashi” a note insulting the woman whom I write it, and is crowded and late Lindsay and the bereaved a lot.
I am very sad as the same human.
Because “he is a handsome man, I forgive rape and violence, imprisonment”.
I am pretty that there is a feeling of the apology for Lindsay.
Lindsay should have sent goodwill to Ichihashi.
Prostitution was performed in the English conversation school where Lindsay worked. She should have sold herself, too.
The bereaved of Lindsay receive 100,000,000 yen from a parent of Ichihashi.
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