A failure to communicate among the on-site security detail and no real-time images that could be monitored are cited as security deficiencies that led to the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The bar that was the site of the attempted sexual assault is seen deserted in December. The signboard and entrance curtain are gone. (Issei Yamamoto)
OSAKA A concerted effort by two good Samaritans helped police thwart the imminent gang rape of a woman who was being drugged at a bar.
Dozens of police investigators stormed the bar in a bustling commercial district in the Kansai region last September to rescue the woman.
Police arrested the bar owner, 50, an office worker, 23, and a caregiver, 34, the following day on suspicion of “attempted constructive forcible sexual intercourse” for plotting to sexually assault the woman after rendering her unable to resist.