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[cornishmuppet]

I was sure someone had to be helping him. Just the fact that he apparently got the job by going up to the company boss in the street and begging for it would have made me suspicious, and at the time he wouldn't have had time to grow his hair or beard.

Glad they caught him in the end. There were some pretty scathing comments about the efficiency of the Japanese police posted as comments on an article on a news website I was reading yesterday. "Keystone Cops" was the one that seemed most accurate. Wikipedia has some interesting information about his first escape, 9 officers, or something, starting around outside for two hours because they weren't allowed to knock without due reason, something like that. At least they've caught him though. Hopefully it actually IS him....

[Apsara]

[gaijinalways]

Well, and it's a stretch, but I do think it's odd with the amount of press initially that before he had plastic surgery he wasn't picked up. People would see his face sometimes, as he was living in a company dormitory.
I mean, wouldn't you recognize someone who had been on the news living in your own dorm?

Wouldn't you wonder why a construction worker was getting plastic surgery (it's not like he was making a bundle)?

As to the keystone cops analogy, actually not all the police officers were there when he escaped, a mere 4 at that time. Still seems odd that he could get away.

Seems to me the police should have put more pressure on the relatives, as obviously someone was helping him as initially he had litle or no money.

[Apsara]

[cornishmuppet]

[/quote] As to the keystone cops analogy, actually not all the police officers were there when he escaped, a mere 4 at that time. Still seems odd that he could get away.[/quote]

Nine, according to this article

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5139609.ece

While before all the keystone buffoonery began she was probably already dead, it makes my blood boil reading that section about the police. Couldn't 'knock', couldn't 'restrain him', couldn't jump down after him for 'health and safety' reasons.

Obviously the article takes a certain stance, and has certain "inaccuracies" - "a club in Tokyo�s gay quarter, Shinjuku" (er, not all of it), judging from what I've seen of Japanese police I wouldn't be surprised if this is exactly how it went down.

Their training must specialise in checking bycycles for lights, cars stopping at stop lines, and old men riding without seatbelts. Nice job, boys.

[Apsara]

[gaijinalways]

The parents urged him to give up recently, not when he first disappeared.

People can state what they want, it doesn't mean it's true. In other words, I believe he was getting help, as his own income was not enough to support an initial life on the run. Some people strongly suspect the father's side of the family, so it may not have been the father directly, but rather a relative.

They didn't investigate the parents harddrives nor tap their phone lines, so I'm not sure what you mean by a 'full' investigation.

[Apsara]

[Cool Teacher]

Lots of sepculation here. I think seome people should read more on this case and write less.

I know Nishinari-ku where he got his job and there are many day labourers there who will work for very little money. I doubt anyone who employs them is scrupulous about checking their identity.

I think there is too much snide talk about how Japanese would let this happen so long but think about it. The new photographs of him came out very recently and he was caught very quickly. Someone did a good job here, so let's be thankful for that.

[gaijinalways]

I want to backtrack to part of my earlier post. From the news accounts I read, I do think he got the surgery earlier (prior to taking the construction job), so I don't the workers could have known (they stated that they recognized him from the after photos when those were released in the media). They don't specifically say when he got the first surgery, but I'm assuming it would be obvious if some's face changed dramatically while you were working with them that it would be suspicious (especially if it's done for noncosmetic reasons).

cool teacher posted

[Cool Teacher]

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200911110126.html

[cornishmuppet]

[gaijinalways]

Thanks cool teacher, I stand corrected. I think it's unusual for a day laborer to live in a dormitory (if you follow stories about the men in Sanya in Tokyo, you'd know what I mean), so I'm not sure if he was still a day laborer .

[Cool Teacher]

[ShioriEigoKyoushi]

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