Antique dealer accused of robbing woman after ‘papakatsu’ relationship sours
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 13, 2021
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a male antique dealer over the alleged attempted robbery of a woman he met online last year, reports the
Sankei Shimbun (May 12).
At around 10:00 p.m. on December 12, Mitsuru Oki, 64, got into a scuffle with the woman, aged in her 30s, inside a hotel room in Shinjuku Ward. He also tried to steal her bag containing about 17,000 yen in cash.
The woman was not hurt in the incident, the Shinjuku Police Station said.
Upon his arrest on Wednesday, Oki denied the allegations. “There was no violence from me,” he told police.