Every year, thousands of Western girls head for Tokyo, where they’re easy prey for rich Japanese men. Killers like cannibal Issei Sagawa or Joji Obara target mainly foreigners.
PART ONE
One danger of the video series is the portrayal of someone like Issei Sagawa as typical, he most certainly is not. However, Joji Obara’s serial rapist-murder activities, seem less startling.
PART TWO
From the series description:
“I really wanted to eat her. She looked very delicious,” confides Japan’s most notorious cannibal, Issei Sagawa. Twenty years ago, he murdered and ate a French student. Protected by his wealthy father, he escaped prison and regularly trawls the bars of Tokyo. The murder of British hostess Lucy Blackman revealed just how dangerous working in Tokyo can be. Leading suspect, Joji Obara, filmed himself drugging and raping more than 150 girls. Worryingly, he’s not the only rapist targeting foreign hostesses. “Sexual violation to a hostess would happen every night,” alleges nightclub worker Rob Cox. He claims Tokyo’s police are in the pay of the Mafia. “The police and Mafia work hand in hand to make sure the sex industry keeps spinning.”
One does have to wonder about Obara’s charges.
Still, Obara and Sagawa (“for eating I never kill”) are not typical . . . but watch this and then go see the freakonomics documentary that includes a section on sumo murders.
In reality, Japan is not unusual in that the red-light district and club culture is full of predators who can be extremely dangerous. The news folks here are over-simplifying things and creating a sense that Tokyo is more dangerous than the same sort of culture in any other major city in the world. Girls who go out with strange men should always take precautions, regardless of what country they are from or wherever they live. Foreigners in a strange land face their own peculiar dangers, yes . . . but . . . girls who behave responsibly and use some forethought are less likely to become victims . . . however, crazy people like Sagawa and predators like Obara exist all over the planet.
Be safe . . . be sensible . . . enjoy life and have fun but do so with reasonable caution as much as possible.
Peace,
Brian
