Here's the latest update on this case from
Japan Today:
TOKYO —A 48-year-old Japanese man was served a fresh arrest warrant Monday on suspicion of killing a Filipina woman whose body he also allegedly dismembered at an apartment in Tokyo’s Odaiba waterfront area, police said. The suspect, Hiroshi Nozaki, 48, allegedly admitted to the charges, saying he killed Honiefaith Ratilia Kamiosawa, 22, because she ignored him despite his devotion to her and that he dismembered her body as he wanted to possess her.
Some other body parts of hers have also been found in a coin locker and a canal in Tokyo. Nozaki allegedly strangled the Filipina and cut up her body in the 26th-floor unit of a high-rise condominium in the Odaiba waterfront district on April 3. The apartment was shared by Nozaki, Kamiosawa and two other Filipinas, all of whom worked in the same food service shop in Roppongi.
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My comments:
This was not the first time that Hiroshi Nozaki committed this perverse crime. He had just been let loose after serving 3.5 years for mutilating another body. He was not convicted for murder in the first case for lack of evidence, and was meted a prison sentence
only for chopping up the body which carries a maximum penalty of 3.5 years. Even the Japanese themselves are puzzled why justice had been served so loosely on this man the first time he committed this crime. Is it possible to be charged only with mutilating a body and not for murdering the person?
I remember another Filipina was murdered some 10 years ago in our neighborhood, about 1 km from where we lived. Her corpse was likewise beheaded. I remember how the Japanese police kept bugging me at my office as she was my client, until I challenged them to prove that I know anything about the murder before I allowed them into my office. To this day, the crime remains unsolved.
I do not know what's with the Japanese. But if you look at their
manga or comic and pornographic literature, it's so full of bloody, sordid violence. A Japanese TV commentator mentioned that perhaps the man is afflicted with a psychological disorder of deriving sexual satisfaction from cutting up the bodies.
Another interesting development. Yesterday, the Japanese Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that held a woman psychologically incapable of judgment when she killed and cut up her husband into pieces due allegedly to domestic violence. This woman was given 15 years in prison. Although the court accepted the unanimous psychiatric opinion of insanity due to protracted violence, the Court asserted that the woman so methodically carried out the crime up to disposal of the body parts that refutes the argument of insanity.
Japan is peaceful on the surface, but there is raging insanity underneath.
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