Pepper Lunch Assault

[Mulboyne]

The Yomiuri reports (Japanese) that a the manager and another worker at a Pepper Lunch in Shinsaibashi, Osaka assaulted a female customer last week and stole her money. Closing the shutters just after midnight, the manager produced a stun gun and told the woman in her twenties not to move or he would kill her. They drugged her with sleeping pills, took her away, bound her and, when they had raped her, stole 55,000 yen. She was left bound in a garage but managed to free herself and find help. The police have arrested the men and the restaurant has been closed. There were no other customers at the time of the assault.

[Mulboyne]

Here's an interesting TV clip, unfortunately with no subtitles. Yoko Tajima wonders why the rape at Pepper Lunch story has received relatively little coverage. It did receive TV coverage when it initially came to light but she claims that most newspaper articles were fairly small affairs tucked away inside. Tajima wonders whether it has to do with the fact that the president has political connections. One of her comments, based on rumours from 2ch, is given a lengthy edit during the broadcast. Interestingly, one of the presenters notes that when Japanese first started going abroad, there were always warnings about these kinds of crimes overseas and yet now Japan seems to have its own fair share.

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[halfnip]

I have a buddy who ate at Pepper Lunch a few weeks ago and got so sick, he was apparently able to shit through a keyhole literally. Regardless of this story, I would not recommend that anyone eat there unless they are willing to lose 15 pounds of water in 3 days......