'Foreigners' murder author

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Bay corpse identified as underworld writer
Mainichi / Sept. 13, 2003---A chained body found in Tokyo Bay with weights attached has been identified as a freelance writer who recently published a book exposing foreign mafia infesting the Kabukicho underworld...The victim, Satoru Someya, wrote in the postscript of his book, "Kabukicho Underground," that he felt he had put his life in danger because of his work.
"I may have turned the whole of Kabukicho against me because I wrote this book ... I am having my work obstructed by mainly foreigners"...

...the back of his skull smashed in two places...then fatally stabbed the concussed writer eight times in the back before transporting his body to a Tokyo pier. The attackers put diving weights around his waist, coiled a chain around his body and tied his arms before dumping the corpse into the sea. His body was found on Friday morning.

[Pizzicatoblue]

All because he was speaking his mind...It sickens me to my stomach.

[Taro Toporific]

All because he was speaking his mind...It sickens me to my stomach.

Mo' sickening is that they can't seen to get rid of a body properly.

Slice-n-Dice, then dump dudes! Sheesh.

... The attackers put diving weights around his waist, coiled a chain around his body and tied his arms before dumping the corpse into the sea. His body was found on Friday morning

[Neo-Rio]

Good point. You'd think if they were professionals that they would make him vanish quiety. If you were going to murder somebody and make a point of it, you'd at least let people find the body... and not leave it under water!

[Big Booger]

Hydrochloric acid, 55 gallon drum.. a few days.

[jim katta]

[bejiita]

Naw, if they really wanted to send a message, they would have left his body in Kabukicho. Sounds more like the work of amateurish fucked-gaijin criminals to me. A few of whom might just be lurking on this board reading what I write.... Ack!

Now if they were true criminals, they'd have just buried his body at the bottom of Fuji-san.

[Video-Link Japan]

Jeezuz.. that really caught my attention this morning because we just filmed a pretty cool 30 minute interview with journalist writer Velisarios Kattoulas who has finished his new book on 'The Modern Yakuza' and I thought O-My-God.. but this was a different guy. Guess you have to wonder what Satoru Someya wrote that cost him his life, let's face it if you play with the bulls sometimes you get the horn!! You'd think they wanted his remains found as a warning because otherwise.. theres plenty of ways to vanish people.

[Steve Bildermann]

Brick Top: You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are you?

Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."

[American Oyaji]

I've heard that pigs can do that.

[American Oyaji]

I just had a thought.

It wasn't foreigners who are USED to handling and disposing of bodies.

It was amateurish Japanese hired by Ishihara.

[Taro Toporific]

You'd think if they were professionals that they would make him vanish quiety.

.... At least then his memory won't just fade away meaninglessly and the fruit of his work would get some exposure.

Writer's tale a true-to-death murder mystery

By MARK SCHREIBER / Japan Times, Sunday, September 28, 2003

"Kabukicho is not the kind of place where common sense gets you very far. Of course, there are places there where you can walk safely]

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Bay corpse identified as underworld writerMainichi / Sept. 13, 2003---A chained body found in Tokyo Bay with weights attached has been identified as a freelance writer who recently published a book exposing foreign mafia infesting the Kabukicho underworld...The victim, Satoru Someya, wrote in the postscript of his book, "Kabukicho Underground," that he felt he had put his life in danger because of his work.
"I may have turned the whole of Kabukicho against me because I wrote this book ... I am having my work obstructed by mainly foreigners"....

Notice the FOREIGNERS' names: "Ryoichi Fujii" and "Kumamoto". Sheesh.

Third man arrested over writer's death
T he Japan Times: Nov. 24, 2003 Tokyo police arrested on Sunday a third man over the death of freelance journalist Satoru Someya, whose body was found in Tokyo Bay in September, according to investigative sources.
Ryoichi Fujii, 34, who works at a locksmith company, was placed under arrest for allegedly abandoning Someya's body...A 31-year-old man with the surname of Kumamoto, an employee of another lock firm, was arrested Saturday, also for allegedly abandoning the victim's body, and a 42-year-old man who works in the lock industry was arrested for allegedly threatening Someya's acquaintances

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Bay corpse identified as underworld writer
Mainichi / Sept. 13, 2003---A chained body found in Tokyo Bay with weights attached has been identified as a freelance writer who recently published a book exposing foreign mafia infesting the Kabukicho underworld...The victim, Satoru Someya, wrote... I am having my work obstructed by mainly foreigners"...

JAPAN: Writer pays the ultimate price for his best-seller
--Tapping into growing public concern in Japan over a recent wave of burglaries by locksmiths, Satoru Someya's book Kagi no Seisho (The Key Bible) quickly became a best-seller. It also cost him his life.South China Morning Post / Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Two locksmiths in police custody are expected to be charged with murder over the killing of 38-year-old Someya, who went under the pen-name of Kuragaki Kashiwabara and was famous for exposes on Japan's underworld.
The locksmiths, Keizo Sakurai, 42, and Yoshihiro Kumamoto, 31, were arrested in November last year on suspicion of kidnapping Someya and holding him...Someya and Sakurai initially co-operated on the story, but they later argued and Someya was reportedly planning to publicly criticise the locksmith.

[kurohinge1]

JAPAN: Writer pays the ultimate price for his best-seller
--Tapping into growing public concern in Japan over a recent wave of burglaries by locksmiths, Satoru Someya's book Kagi no Seisho (The Key Bible) quickly became a best-seller. It also cost him his life.South China Morning Post / Wednesday, January 14, 2004...

According to Tokyo police, about 11,000 homes in the city had their locks picked last year, an 81 per cent increase over 2002.

[GomiGirl]

According to Tokyo police, about 11,000 homes in the city had their locks picked last year, an 81 per cent increase over 2002.

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Call me crazy, but I think I had somebody in my apartment yesterday. I got home from work around midnight and the cat was completely spooked about something and a few things were amiss around the place. But nothing has been stolen.

* inside door was slightly ajar
* futon and extra pillows/blankets had fallen down from my closet
* drain cover in unit bath was moved

Either that or it was just a futon that fell out of the cupboard and spooked the cat. She is seriously jumpy and will not go into my room or on my bed. I have never seen her this scared before and it has continued for over 12 hours. I felt bad about leaving her by herself today.

[Taro Toporific]

Call me crazy, but I think I had somebody in my apartment yesterday. I got home from work around midnight and the cat was completely spooked about something and a few things were amiss around the place. But nothing has been stolen.

Reminder: Japanese burglars ONLY steal cash. If you didn't have cash, nothing would have been taken by a traditional Japanese crook.

[GomiGirl]

Call me crazy, but I think I had somebody in my apartment yesterday. I got home from work around midnight and the cat was completely spooked about something and a few things were amiss around the place. But nothing has been stolen.

Reminder: Japanese burglars ONLY steal cash. If you didn't have cash, nothing would have been taken by a traditional Japanese crook.

Never keep cash at home (not in my bank either).

I will check my knickers drawer again just in case. But why would the drain in my bath be moved?

[Alcazar]

Never keep cash at home (not in my bank either).

GomiGirl, Taro, I'm curious, where are Japanese keeping their life savings physically if they aren't in bank accounts-safe deposit boxes at banks etc? Surely not station lockers? I heard that so many Japanese are just hoarding mondo amounts of cash at home because they don't trust the banking system?

[Alcazar]

But why would the drain in my bath be moved?

Maybe some people in other places had hidden stuff down there?
Or maybe, 'Is that where that live web-feed is coming from'?.........
http://www.livegaijindrainhentai.com

[GomiGirl]

But why would the drain in my bath be moved?

Maybe some people in other places had hidden stuff down there?
Or maybe, 'Is that where that live web-feed is coming from'?.........
http://www.livegaijindrainhentai.com

Guess who clicked on that link??? D'oh - one born every minute.. Got me Alcazar!!

I guess that some people keep money at home. I know a few people (sans-visa) who were doing that.

I think it was just my kitten who moved it to see what was there.. (lots of long red hair actually so she had lots to play with)

[Alcazar]

Guess who clicked on that link??? D'oh - one born every minute.. Got me Alcazar!!

Crazy thing about Japan is you never know! . Like you said, your kittten probably just got scared with falling futons coming down, so I wouldn't worry.

Seriously though, if Japanese hoarded their money at home, they wouldn't have many places to hide a stack of cash, especially if they lived in an apartment. My family here has one of those 200 year old Japanese wood cupboards with sliding doors etc, and that has a secret compartment, but the compartment is only small, say lunchbox size. Japanese would maybe hide stuff under floors, or in the ceiling insulation area...hmmmmmm.......a bit risky.... I read about Japanese house-breakers using a blowtorch to melt glass in a window near a door or window latch, make a hole so they could unlock the door, and then go in-that seems funny to me. I guess noise is a major issue though.

[maruosan]

The first time that I went to a Yatai (demise) I was so impress, [I still think is a great place], time after I went again with a friend (Japanese) and he told me that everything was control by the Yakusa, that they own many of the business or people had to paid them in order to keep the shops open, my disappointment was worse when my friends told me that almost any street business: oden, ramen, yakitori has to paid the yakusa of the area that they want to work in (my friends say that is the same everywhere in Japan), I still cannot believe that happen here..

[Captain Japan]

Exec faces 18 years for murdering freelance writer
Mainichi

Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded that a middle-aged man who conspired with two others to abduct a freelance writer and murder him before dumping the victim's body into Tokyo Bay be sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Keizo Sakurai, 43, former president of a lock firm, was the ringleader of the abduction and murder of writer Satoru Someya in 2003, according to prosecutors.

Sakurai, with two others, confined Someya, 38, in an apartment in Tokyo's Shinjuku-ku in September 2003 after the victim allegedly wrote a story in disfavor of the former president, prosecutors said in the Tokyo District Court.

One of the two accomplices later stabbed Someya on a boat on Tokyo Bay and dumped the victim into the sea.

"He intended to erase a man he disliked through violence. Therefore, there is no room for leniency," a prosecutor told the court when demanding Sakurai be sentenced to an 18-year prison term.

Lawyers for Sakurai claim that he has shown regret over the killing and asked for a lenient ruling. (Mainichi Shimbun Japan, March 1, 2005)

[Captain Japan]

Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded that a middle-aged man who conspired with two others to abduct a freelance writer and murder him before dumping the victim's body into Tokyo Bay be sentenced to 18 years in prison.

A get-out-of-jail early card...
Hit man jailed for 14 years for brutal murder of freelance writer
Mainichi

A hit man who brutally stabbed a freelance writer to death and threw his body into the sea in revenge for a defaming article was Tuesday handed a 14-year prison sentence in the Tokyo District Court.

In handing down the ruling on Yoshihiro Kumamoto, 33, Presiding Judge Shoji Ogawa blasted Kumamoto's actions.

"After binding the victim with chains, he stabbed him several times in the back and threw him into the sea. It was absolutely brutal," Ogawa said.

Kumamoto was approached by 44-year-old office worker Keizo Sakurai, who asked him to murder 38-year-old writer Satoru Someya for writing an article in a magazine that defamed Sakurai, according to the ruling.

In the predawn hours of Sept. 7, 2003, Kumamoto led Someya onto a boat in Tokyo Bay and stabbed him to death, the court heard. Sakurai was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for the crime and is in the process of appealing his sentence.

[Big Booger]

14 years for murder seems a bit light. What are typical sentences for murder here?

For such a brutal murder, certainly a life sentence or even death would be more appropriate?

[dimwit]

Gangsters often get reduced sentences provided that no innocent bystanders were injured. Generally, we have the same problem back home; if you are a Jamaican involved in a drive-by 10 years tops regardless of the number you killed.

[dingosatemybaby]

14 years for murder seems a bit light. What are typical sentences for murder here?

For such a brutal murder, certainly a life sentence or even death would be more appropriate?

Machi no Dani Guy who Committed a Really Nasty Homicide: 14 years

Nick Baker, for Having Bad Stuff in His Suitcase: 14 years

Something seems a bit anomalous here.