Kyodo via Yahoo: Man held for allegedly holding woman captive in Tokyo for 3 months
A 24-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of holding a 19-year-old woman captive for more than three months in Tokyo by use of a collar, police said. Yasuyoshi Kobayashi, a resident of Sapporo, is suspected of calling the woman, whom he had got to know through the Internet, out to a Tokyo hotel around March 8 last year, and then punching her in the face repeatedly and warning her not to escape, the police said. He then used the collar in confining her in both the hotel room and his house in Tokyo's Adachi Ward at that time until June 19, they said. The woman managed to escape that day while Kobayashi was not watching her for a while and she then filed a criminal complaint in July, leading the Metropolitan Police Department to launch an investigation. Kobayashi was quoted as telling the police he does not remember the incident.