Café & Guest House is a local Internet celebrity homestay in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
With its cost-effective accommodation fees, inexpensive specialty hot pot and stove batayaki, and antique Japanese architecture, it is often recommended by travel magazines and self-media, so it is popular with young people and attracts tourists from all over Japan every year, especially young single female guests.
The convex house itself is "safe for single women to stay alone". On many travel review sites, you'll see many praise reviews – "The owner is gentle and takes good care of the girls, especially if you're staying alone." We were kindly said goodbye every time we left".
The owner, Takei Toshiharu, often updates photos of him playing with female residents on social platforms, so that outsiders will think that he is a good boss who is funny and hospitable.
Over time, out of trust in Takei, many female repeat customers of Okaya, and even female residents live here alone for two or three months.
However, these female residents could not have imagined that the boss in front of them, who seemed to them to be kind and respectful of women, was actually a despicable and vulgar perverted color demon!
From the first step they took into the homestay, the boss calculated them and secretly plotted against them:
Drug rape, secretly taking obscene videos and nude photos, extortion...
This homestay, which focuses on "safe check-in for single women", has become extremely unsafe because of the existence of the owner Takei.
What the female resident did not expect was that Takei was still a person with a previous record of sexual crimes, and he even escaped the punishment of the law, has been at large, and has repeatedly committed crimes.
It all started on August 8, 2019.
At that time, Takei drugged the wine of the single female resident Ako, and Ako, out of trust in Takei, did not think much about it, so she drank the wine that Takei gave her, and then lost consciousness and fainted.
Takei took advantage of Ako's inability to resist and sexually assaulted her. Afterwards, Ako called the police in September, and Takei was quickly arrested and prosecuted, but was finally acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
Committing sexual assault but getting away with it made Takei not only not retreat, but became more and more arrogant.
He took advantage of the convenience of running a homestay to intensify the drug and sexual assault of female residents in the store, and secretly filmed the process of sexual assault throughout the process, made into videos or photos, and then saved them on the computer, and constantly "revisited" them when he was idle on weekdays.
Less than a year after his arrest and release, in July 2020, he repeated his old trick and drugged and raped his son B.
Unfortunately, after B Zi woke up, her body developed severe sleepiness and scattered memories, and she was completely unaware of the terrible things that happened to her.
So she moved in again in August, but she was still killed, but she still didn't know and lost her memories before and after sleeping.
He has behaved like a beast many times, but Takei does not feel a trace of guilt, but becomes more and more proud. He believes that the last acquittal was a gold medal given to him by Japanese law, and even if he is arrested again, he will still be found not guilty, and the police may not target him again.
At the same time that Takei was overconfident and constantly committing crimes, the Okayama County Police had already been investigating him in depth.
In March this year, the female resident Czi called the police, claiming that after staying at the guesthouse in Takei the night before, she began vomiting the next day. It was not until the hospital examination that I found that an unknown drug appeared in my stomach.
Coupled with Takei's previous experience, the Okayama Prefectural Police quickly locked him up and began to investigate the victims from the list of female residents of Okaya for many years.
The Okayama Prefectural Police had always known about Takei's crimes, but had not been able to legally obtain definitive evidence.
Until recently, Takei handed over the evidence.
Because he had a dispute with the female resident Dzi and was rude to Dzi, the police came to the homestay to investigate, and used this as a reason to search his homestay, and found many pornographic videos and nude photos of the victims on his mobile phone and computer.
Subsequently, the police formally arrested Takei on charges of "forced intercourse" and "forcible indecency."
However, after being arrested, Takei looked relaxed, he flatly denied it, and shamelessly claimed:
"Those female guests are volunteering! I didn't take the drug! And didn't force them! ”
He insisted he was innocent and did not apologize or reflect on the victims.
After Takei's arrest, many female residents called the police, suspecting that they had suffered the same thing.
From the confession of the female resident, the police learned that Takei's commonly used sexual crime routines:
He usually pretends to be "gentle and caring, humorous and sunny", talks to female guests, often shushs and asks for warmth, and closes the distance between him and female residents.
After a little familiarization, he would pretend to be drunk in front of the female guest, and then rub on the female guest to coquettish and test the female guest's reaction. He usually chooses female residents who endure in silence and stays away from female residents who will directly push him away and curse angrily.
Once he chooses a target, he will find ways to create opportunities for solitude. The most common is to secretly drug the female guest's wine, and then bring the wine to the female guest's room, claiming that he wants to have a long conversation with the female guest, but in fact it is an evil intention.
When the female guest woke up the next day, he would pretend that nothing had happened and warmly send the female guest out of the hotel.
According to the date of the photo, Takei may have been drugged and raped female residents since it opened four years ago.
After Takei was arrested again, neighbors near the homestay spat bitter water to the police one after another, and it turned out that Takei was still a bad ruffian.
According to neighbors, Takei was not a local but was born in the nearby city of Kasaoka. His mother's whereabouts have been unknown since the divorce, and his father, an alcoholic, died early. He lived with his single brother in an apartment in Kasaoka City, and he was obviously not rich, so he suddenly managed to raise a sum of up to 35 million yen to start his life, buy the land for the homestay, and carry out a major renovation.
But since the B&B opened four years ago, neighbors have been overwhelmed. Takei often broke fences erected by neighbors, threw roof tiles at random on other people's fields, and even raced on narrow roads. Whoever expresses his displeasure will be reluctant to say that he knows a senior lawyer.
In addition, even though the guesthouse has the slogan of "good value for money", some female guests have paid Takei more than 1 million yen for the room.
Eko ran away from home because of a fight with her parents, and has been staying here in Takei ever since. During her stay, she withdrew more than 1 million yen from her parents' account.
Eko's mother was shocked, and Shun Fuji found Takei. Takei said it was a legal room charge. However, the room rate of this homestay is 3,000 yen per night, and the two meals are 6,000 yen per night, which does not reach more than 1 million.
Therefore, E's mother suspected that Takei was blackmailing her daughter, but E-son denied it. E's mother was worried that her daughter was also drugged and raped, but E-zi also denied it.
Regarding the rape case committed by Takei, the police said:
"Although drug rape has been a technique for many years, it has been on the rise in recent years. Ordinary people do not have rape drugs, and Takei's operation of a guesthouse is very likely to be a planned crime. He will most likely target first-time guests. ”
The creepiest thing is: I paid for a homestay, happy and ready to enjoy leisure time, but I didn't expect to be drugged and raped in confusion.
Therefore, as soon as the news came out, it caused Japanese netizens to worry: Will it be impossible to stay and eat outside at ease in the future?
"Just by looking at the photos, I can see that this homestay has a good atmosphere and the price is also cheap, so single women can stay alone with peace of mind. If it looks like that, I want to stay.
It is also for this reason that despicable sins cannot be forgiven. Whether it is a homestay or a hotel, no matter how the guests lock the doors and windows, the operation and management will have a master key, so it is difficult for guests to protect themselves. Coupled with the drug in food and wine, it is even more difficult to prevent.
At the same time, this incident will also affect those who seriously run guesthouses, so Takei's meanness is unforgivable. ”
Some netizens questioned: Why can Takei still operate a homestay as usual after being arrested in 2019?
"I was arrested and prosecuted in the summer of 2019, and I was arrested again this year, so for three years, it was treated as if nothing happened and still operated externally? Is there really no problem in doing such a thing and still being able to operate? ”
Some netizens said that if this incident is not severely punished, foreigners will have a worse impression of Japan.
"My impression of Okayama Prefecture has deteriorated. If the person concerned does not take a secret photo without the consent of the person concerned, it will be difficult to restore people's confidence in Okayama Prefecture if it is not severely punished and relevant regulations are not enacted. If the state does not take action to remedy similar situations, it will be too late for foreigners to suffer. ”
Some netizens mentioned that eating in restaurants is also not very safe, and they have lost confidence in the security of Japan.
"Not only homestays, but also eating in restaurants will encounter a similar situation, right? I don't know what drugs are mixed in the food in front of me, and to be honest, it's really dangerous. Is it only necessary to be careful in all aspects of the future to avoid turning the long-awaited trip into a tragedy of a lifetime? I feel that this is not the reassuring and safe Japan of the past. ”
What this netizen said is not alarmist. Recently, a case of suspected drug rape occurred in a famous high-end restaurant in Osaka, and the prisoner was a Michelin-starred chef.
Chef Enomoto, one of Osaka's most popular Michelin-starred restaurants in Naniwa District, Osaka, has been hailed as "one of the leading Japanese chefs in Kansai".
However, it is such a good old man who was recently arrested by the Osaka police on suspicion of repeatedly drugged and raped guests.
Enomoto was accused of putting sleeping pills in wine in December and February this year to rape female customers who came to eat.
High-end Japanese food shops like his main business are generally very small. There are only 6 seats in the store on weekdays, and the small private room inside is for drunk customers to rest, but he did not expect that it was used by him to sexually assault female customers.
Some netizens questioned the Japanese government's handling of similar incidents.
"Shouldn't the government thoroughly investigate and severely punish? There have been too many similar things lately, but the government has not come up with a corresponding defensive countermeasure. ”
As this netizen said, even if Takei and Enomoto are currently arrested by the police, sex crimes like them of "drug rape" exist in today's Japanese law and are very difficult to convict.
In March 2019 alone, four criminal trials of sexual violence involving drugging and rape were initially acquitted, three of which were later overturned and re-convicted after a series of difficulties.
This is due to the fact that in Japan's current law, there are problems such as "difficulty in obtaining evidence" and "difficulty in conviction" for victims who are drugged and raped, and victims who lose consciousness and are sexually assaulted.
Current Japanese law requires that the perpetrator of a sex crime must prove "atrocities" and "threats," that is, the victim must show corresponding "resistance" in the process.
In addition, courts throughout Japan have cited "whether the victim has traces of desperate resistance" as the main reason for the verdict.
In this regard, the victim said: "Does the absence of resistance mean that there is no sexual assault?" ”。
Outsiders have never been able to understand the difficulties that victims cannot resist when they are suddenly violated because they are physically and mentally stiff and unable to move. What's more, after being drugged, they often lose consciousness and thus lose the ability to resist.
Therefore, those lustful devils who drugged and raped will easily escape the punishment of the law, and Takei will be sure that this time the law will also acquit him.
And the color devils of these sex crimes often commit crimes again, and the probability of a second crime will even reach 100%.
However, Takei's dream of "wanting to be innocent" may be in vain.
Recently, Japan's Ministry of Justice is discussing amendments to the Criminal Law on Sexual Violence. In the pilot plan drafted, the perpetrator and behavior, as well as the state of the victim, were specified, and for the first time, "refusal of difficulty" was included in the law:
The perpetrator makes the victim ingest alcohol and drugs, and in the victim's unconscious state such as sleep, when the victim "refuses difficult", the sex crime is established.
However, at the seminar, Spring, a general association that advocates for victims of sex crimes, said that the ambiguous and poorly defined term "rejection difficult" is actually easy to misunderstand. This will cause victims to suffer secondary injuries at the scene of evidence collection and trial, and it will also be "difficult to convict".
In this regard, lawyer Junko Nakayama hopes that the trial plan can make anyone understand:
The essence of sex crimes is that the victim does not consent but is forced to perform sexual acts.
In this way, Japan still has a long way to go in terms of criminalizing and punishing sex crimes.