TOKYO — Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday arrested a psychiatrist who runs a clinic in Shinjuku Ward for allegedly sexually assaulting a feminine affected person final 12 months.
The arrest is way from the primary for Jun Izawa, the 55-year-old director of Tokyo Clinic. On Monday, police accused him of participating in non-consensual sexual activity with a affected person final August.
In 2022, the positioning for weekly tabloid Flash reported on Izawa’s trial for assaulting his then girlfriend. During the trial proceedings, witnesses described a string of horrific home violence incidents.
“Domestic violence”
On August 3, Izawa appeared in courtroom to face assault fees for the extreme abuse of his former girlfriend, aged in her 20s.
Izawa, showing unkempt and graying, repeatedly interrupted proceedings. When the prosecution introduced pictures of the sufferer’s bruises and Line message exchanges as proof, Izawa abruptly stood up, demanding to see the pictures and accusing the sufferer of mendacity on the stand.
The sufferer testified that she started relationship Izawa in April 2021 after initially being his affected person. “It began when he invited me out for a meal after he saw me outside of regular clinic hours,” she testified.
They began residing collectively in October. Izawa’s perspective then modified drastically, she testified.
“I began to experience domestic violence,” she stated. “I was instructed to take large quantities of multiple medications, including Abilify, which is used to treat schizophrenia, and I was practically brainwashed.”
According to the sufferer, the bodily abuse was relentless. “Punching and kicking have been on a regular basis occurrences. He would hurl abuse at me whereas poking me with an umbrella, and pinch my arms with DIY rubber-band clips as ‘punishment,’” she recalled.
The abuse culminated in late February 2022 when Izawa forced her to pick up trash on the street near his car while wearing only her underwear. Izawa then fled the scene to avoid public attention.
Panicking, she slit her wrists. After she was rushed to the hospital and received stitches, Izawa became enraged the following day during an argument and tore open the freshly sutured wounds. The injury severed her nerves, permanently destroying the sensation in her left hand. The incident finally prompted her to file a police report.
Freely dispensing prescription pills
Throughout the investigation, Izawa denied the charges, dismissing the victim’s claims as “a woman’s delusion.”
However, Izawa’s darkish historical past extends past home violence. Medical insiders and former sufferers advised Flash he was infamous amongst drug-seekers for freely shelling out prescription tablets.
In 2007, he was subjected to an inspection by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for excessively prescribing the extremely addictive psychotropic drug Ritalin. He was fined
Former sufferers reported consultations lasting lower than a minute, noting the clinic functioned extra like a pharmacy.
Multiple ladies have come ahead alleging Izawa preyed on susceptible, emotionally unstable younger ladies through the use of what’s termed on their web as pien-kei, which means to make use of prescribed drugs as bait.
One former affected person claimed Izawa out of the blue uncovered his genitals throughout a session, providing her copious quantities of treatment or “weight-loss pills” if she touched him.
Another girl, looking for remedy for insomnia, alleged Izawa groped her thighs, prescribed 19 tablets a day, and later confirmed up at her dwelling. When she refused him entry, he stuffed 500 tablets into her mailbox over the course of every week.
Arrest document
Izawa’s arrest document additionally contains an assault of a male affected person that resulted in a fracture. In 2008, he was accused of stalking a former feminine affected person.
After the aforementioned girlfriend lodged her grievance citing abuse, police launched an investigation. In March, Izawa was accused of violating the Stimulants Control Law for possessing 0.28 grams of kakuseizai (methamphetamine) at his dwelling.
Later that month, Izawa was re-arrested for assault in opposition to the identical girl, together with kicking her within the thigh. The following month, he was arrested once more for quasi-forcible indecency in opposition to a feminine college scholar in her 20s who was a affected person. He was suspected of touching her chest throughout a session on the Tokyo Clinic beneath the guise of checking her lungs.
That May, he was re-arrested for defamation of a feminine affected person. He despatched false messages 5 instances to the girl’s father’s office. In July, he was re-arrested for pressured sexual activity with one other feminine affected person in her 20s. In that case, he was suspected of calling her again after a session and pushing her to the ground.
In August of final 12 months, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government revoked Tokyo Clinic’s designation as a welfare-receiving medical establishment and an impartial residing help medical establishment because of his convictions in a number of felony circumstances involving affected person victims.
“He says he didn’t do it or doesn’t remember, but I don’t understand how he could forget,” the primary sufferer advised the courtroom in August 2022. “He injured me badly enough to need stitches and smashed three of my cell phones. I want him to quickly admit his crimes and apologize.”