OSAKA (TR) – The downtown Minami space of Osaka City is usually full of vacationers every day. However, a brutal assault involving the proprietor of a buying and selling card retailer occurred within the distinctive leisure district often known as “Ota Road” final 12 months.
Over a roughly two-week interval in February final 12 months, Koji Takeuchi, 29, Mitsuteru Hashimoto, 24, and Ryo Yamashita, 37, allegedly threatening the sufferer on the streets of Naniwa Ward and compelled him to eat Hashimoto’s excrement blended with on the spot meals.
They additionally electrocuted his genitals after which set his legs on fireplace.
The three have been indicted on fees of coercion and assault.
“Mistake at work”
Yamashita ran the buying and selling card retailer. Meanwhile, the sufferer is a former worker. Yamashita invited the sufferer to begin working there in December 2024. He was tasked with serving to out with customer support and different duties. The assaults started the next January.
The incident got here to gentle when police arrested Yamashita and Takeuchi for separate crimes. During the investigations, a video of the person’s assault was discovered on a smartphone within the possession of one of many suspects.
A social affairs reporter tells the location of Shukan Bunshun that the assault was as “punishment for him making a mistake at work.”
As they pressured the sufferer to eat on the spot meals containing excrement, they threatened him: “I’ll poke you in the eyes. Hurry up, we don’t have time.”
This was not a one-time prevalence; Yamashita tried to power the sufferer to eat excrement on the road on different events.
“On another day, they are also suspected of shaving the victim’s hair with clippers, wrapping aluminum foil around his genitals, and then plugging it into an outlet in electrocuting him,” the reporter says. “They are also said to have sprayed alcohol on his legs and set them on fire. These videos were found on the smartphone seized [by police]. Naturally, the victim wants them to be punished.”