Family Ties

Posted on 6/2/2005 by Younghusband

As said on countless occasions, Japan is screwed up. But I guess it is heartening to know that they value the family unit.

*from “Mainichi Daily News”:http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050602p2a00m0dm002000c.html*
YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa — Despite having labeled a man as “worse than a pervert” for performing indecent acts on his 7-year-old daughter and then e-mailing images of his deeds to friends, a judge allowed him to walk free.

The Yokosuka Branch of the Yokohama Family Court handed down a three-year sentence for breaking the Child Welfare Law on the 39-year-old Mie Prefecture man.

“Your words and acts while sexually abusing your own daughter caused her severe mental damage,” the presiding judge in the case said while handing down the ruling, but then he suspended the sentence for five years. “It’s a matter of course that your should go to jail. But then it’s hard on the girl if her father is in prison. Don’t ever do something like this again.”

The trial showed the man had molested his 7-year-old daughter on at least 10 occasions from August last year to February, using his mobile phone camera to film his deeds. He then sent the photos to a friend he had met through a pedophile website.

On the opening day of the trial on May 25, the judge lambasted the man.

“You’ve gone past mere perversion. You’re worse than a pervert. You’ve done something a normal father couldn’t even imagine doing. It was not the act of a human being. What are you going to do about the future of the daughter you’ve hurt so badly?” the judge told the man.

The man admitted his guilt.

“I’ve done something terrible. I want to make it up to my family.”

About Younghusband

Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game. "Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
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9 Responses to Family Ties

  1. Chirol says:
    6/2/2005 at 6:50 pm

    I’m at a loss for words.

    YH or Cuzon: Do they have the death penalty in Japan? And is this normal like in Europe where they give VERY lenient sentences to felons or an exception?

  2. Younghusband says:
    6/2/2005 at 7:44 pm

    They do have the death penalty in Japan (by hanging), but it is usually done in a quiet manner on holidays etc and is like 4th page news. Out of the public eye and very low key.

    As for sentences, Japan has no legal precident, but I will let the Lawman Curzon explain more about that.

  3. Grendel says:
    6/2/2005 at 9:52 pm

    Just a coincidence, I wrote something about that this afternoon. Foreign Policy published a detailed article…

    “Death penalty in Japan”:http://grabic.blogspot.com/2005/06/death-penalty-in-japan.html

  4. Plunge says:
    6/3/2005 at 2:35 am

    I’m flabbergasted. I mean, yeah, perverted stuff happens in Japan, but this is such a travesty, such a miscarrage of justice, I’m at a loss.

    I’m curious as to the reaction in Japan over this. Can anyone enlighten us as to how people are taking this?

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  6. Mike says:
    6/3/2005 at 3:07 am

    This judge isn’t thinking clearly. And yes Japan is “screwed up”. In my two trips to Japan I found it the oddest society I have ever seen.

  7. Younghusband says:
    6/3/2005 at 5:52 am

    I love the “Mainichi Shinbun”:http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0506/02cult.html:

    bq. For cult leader Hakumajinkyoku, sticking his finger — as well as a tobacco pipe — into the vagina of his female followers is not debauchery, but a sacred ritual

    Welcome to Japan!

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