English teacher murdered in Shinjuku (nudge, nudge)

[EdHill]

Does anybody have any more details on this?

[INDENT]Extradition proceedings commenced by Homusho.
TOKYO, April 5 KYODO
The Ministry of Justice today commenced extradition proceedings against an Australian resident yesterday, a spokesman for the Ministry announced.
On the 7th of May, 2004, English teacher Derek Irvine (30) was found dead in his apartment in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The cause of death was a massive heart failure brought on by drug overdose. Investigators treated the death as suspicious, yet according to police sources, the investigation bore few leads. Almost two years later, prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Mr. Robert Trebec (27) from Australia to face criminal charges relating to the death. The claim for extradition was based on a document Mr. Trebec himself published on the Internet under the pseudonym, 'Kevin Bon Bevan'. The Australian Foreign Ministry is yet to comment.
==Kyodo[/INDENT]

[Taro Toporific]

Does anybody have any more details on this?

[INDENT]Extradition proceedings commenced by Homusho.
TOKYO, April 5 KYODO
...prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Mr. Robert Trebec (27) from Australia to face criminal charges relating to the death. The claim for extradition was based on a document Mr. Trebec himself published on the Internet under the pseudonym, 'Kevin Bon Bevan'. The Australian Foreign Ministry is yet to comment.
[/INDENT]

Well we covered the "Greatest f*cked gaijin novel ever written"which included Mr KEVIN BON BEVAN.

....Customs officials, who seemed very young, but also very serious]KEVIN BON BEVAN[/B]. 5/3/1979. SWALLOW WHOLE.

Read 'Kevin Bon Bevan' here
http://kevinbonbevan.com/index.htm
http://kevinbonbevan.com/indexjapanese.htm

[Charles]

Does anybody have any more details on this?

[INDENT]Extradition proceedings commenced by Homusho.
TOKYO, April 5 KYODO
The Ministry of Justice today commenced extradition proceedings against an [SIZE="7"]Australian[/SIZE] resident yesterday, a spokesman for the Ministry announced.
On the 7th of May, 2004, English teacher Derek Irvine (30) was found dead in his apartment in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The cause of death was a massive heart failure brought on by drug overdose. Investigators treated the death as suspicious, yet according to police sources, the investigation bore few leads. Almost two years later, prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Mr. Robert Trebec (27) from [SIZE="7"]Australia[/SIZE] to face criminal charges relating to the death. The claim for extradition was based on a document Mr. Trebec himself published on the Internet under the pseudonym, 'Kevin Bon Bevan'. The [SIZE="7"]Australian[/SIZE] Foreign Ministry is yet to comment.
==Kyodo[/INDENT]

What more do you need to know?

[Mike Oxlong]

Why the hell should Australia (or any country for that matter) extradite one of its own citizens to Japan?!? Japan, although a signatory on international extradition treaties, refuses in most cases to send their own J-criminals back to the overseas locations where they raped, robbed and pillaged.

[Ketou]

What more do you need to know?

A lot more....do tell.

[etto_neh]

Gonna vent here, gomen..-

I hope that I speak for the other couple-million FG in JP who can't be bothered by asking, "WhyTF doesn't J-media bother with the fact that though marijuana will get one deported (regardless of marital status-trust me), absolutely every drug is easily available here anyway?"

If not clear enough- It takes little effort to get whatever you want in any city in Japan. Albeit at a premium, it's there.

[Mulboyne]

Japan, although a signatory on international extradition treaties, refuses in most cases to send their own J-criminals back to the overseas locations where they raped, robbed and pillaged.

You are right that Japan does not often extradite its nationals but I'm not sure you are right to say that they have signed up to international extradition treaties. According to the MoJ website, Japan only has bilateral extradition treaties with the US and South Korea. Apparently, Japan is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

* A request from a foreign country for Japan's extradition of a fugitive is processed in accordance with the Law of Extradition (Law No. 68 of 1953).
* When there is an extradition treaty between the requesting country and Japan, Japan will extradite the fugitive as a matter of legal obligation under the treaty, subject to applicable restrictions provided for by the treaty and its domestic laws.

As of July 2005, Japan has concluded bilateral extradition treaties with the United States of America and the Republic of Korea.

The treaty with Korea was only concluded in 2002. Article 2 of the Law No. 68 linked to above requires Japan to not extradite its nationals unless a treaty of extradition provides otherwise which is why the issue of Fujimori's nationality was pertinent. According to this 2001 report (PDF) , Australia had a total of 303 cases of extradition for all countries between 1981 and 2001. Japan did extradite to Australia (which could not have been a Japanese national) and Australia did extradite to Japan (no details on nationality) so some extraditions are considered by both even in the absence of a treaty.

The whole issue of extradition is one that has come up before on FG in relation to child abduction. Children's Rights Network of Japan has a list of Japanese citizens wanted under international warrants. One interesting case is Etsuko Tanizaki (Allred), who is a US citizen of Japanese ancestry, and Daren (sometimes Darren) Allred, a US citizen, who are both wanted on charges of parental abduction. Etsuko is the mother of the two children and Daren is the step father. Here is her former husband's account of the case. They are both said to be living in Aichi prefecture where Daren works with Interac.

[FG Lurker]

I hope that I speak for the other couple-million FG in JP who can't be bothered by asking, "WhyTF doesn't J-media bother with the fact that though marijuana will get one deported (regardless of marital status-trust me), absolutely every drug is easily available here anyway?"

One word: Yakuza.

[kurohinge1]

Outstanding research, Mulboyne-san, as usual.

EdHill - can you please link to the original article when you post. I can't find any reference to the case you mentioned. I certainly hope this isn't some publicity stunt for the "Greatest f*cked gaijin novel ever written"

But it did get me looking at some interesting articles on foreign crime in Japan, like this one: Foreign criminality in Japan

Among the 20,007 [foreign] people arrested in 2003 :

83,3% were from Asia
10,9% were from South America
1,3% were from North America (0,8% from USA)
1,5% were from Europe
1,2% were from Russia
1,3% were from Africa
0,5% were from Oceania

The US seems to have some naughty neighbours who're almost doubling their continental statistics - are Greenlanders that rowdy?

[homesweethome]

I really liked this part of that article:

In addition, many problems are never reported to the police by the Japanese, especially when they can settle the issue between them. So again, once foreigners are involved, the chances are much higher that the police be involved and that it appears in the statistics, which explains why Japanese have such a disproportionally low rate of offences (0.049%) compared to crime (0.291%).

Have a problem with a neighbor? Complain about it at the PTA meetings and Undo-kais, If the neighbor is a gaijin, call the police!

Thanks for that great article!

[Taro Toporific]

The claim for extradition was based on a document Mr. Trebec himself published on the Internet under the pseudonym, 'Kevin Bon Bevan'.

EdHill - can you please link to the original article when you post. I can't find any reference to the case you mentioned. I certainly hope this isn't some publicity stunt for the "Greatest f*cked gaijin novel ever written"

Nice spoof but [B] “]
Robert Trebec = Bob Trebek, Alex Trebek's younger brother

Sorry Mr EdHill/Adam/Kevin Bon Bevan/Trebec, your IP address is the same.

[homesweethome]

Nice spoof but [B] “]

That's a grrrrreat "first post"!

Homushou

Ha! ha! ha!

[blackcat]

Have a problem with a neighbor? Complain about it at the PTA meetings and Undo-kais, If the neighbor is a gaijin, call the police!

thats very true I think, Ive had that happen to a friend twice, just over a parking area,(not an offical park either) his wifes japanese too, but the neighbors just called the cops, two different towns.

The xenophobia that runs quietly in this country is amazing, still waters run DEEP.

as for the story...well hes a FG, who here gives a shit?! look at the bais reporting of FG crime to FG victims...night and day.

[Ketou]

[Mulboyne]

Have a problem with a neighbor? Complain about it at the PTA meetings and Undo-kais, If the neighbor is a gaijin, call the police!

I think that is still generally true but, in the cities at least, I think people are getting a bit more inclined to involve the police at an earlier stage. When the media reported the Miyoko Kawahara case, admittedly exceptional, the media reporting kept wondering why the neigbours hadn't got police involved much earlier.

[homesweethome]

I think that is still generally true but, in the cities at least, I think people are getting a bit more inclined to involve the police at an earlier stage.

Well, so far I have had the police at my place three times in about a year. As you can see from the pics I don't live in a major metro area either. In fact several times I have had people from out of the prefecture 'camp out' in my driveway.



View looking out my window



You can see the 'neighbor's' roof just barely in the second photo. He just likes to make things up, and I have to go to the police station and provide an alibi or try to convince the good officer that what he says happened actually didn't happen.

Not a lot of fun let me tell you.

He just doesn't like having an FG living next door I guess.

[Greji]

You just don't understand the uniqueness of the Japanese HSH! They are required by tradition and long cutural history to be envious of a rich FG living next door that has two out-houses, compared to their indoor one hole shitter!

[emperor]

They are required by tradition and long cutural history to be envious of a rich FG living next door that has two out-houses, compared to their indoor one hole shitter!

Luxury! We used to DREAM of having a hole to shit into!

[homesweethome]

You just don't understand the uniqueness of the Japanese HSH! They are required by tradition and long cutural history to be envious of a rich FG living next door that has two out-houses, compared to their indoor one hole shitter!

Outhouse?Indeed!





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