Aided by sleeping pills and social media, ex-Osaka teacher raped ‘more than 300’ men
By Roland Shichijo on March 13, 2021
OSAKA (TR) – By the time Osaka police arrested Takahiro Hojo, 42, on suspicion of rape last year, investigators had used photographs seized in his residence in Osaka City to estimate that the number of victims in the case exceeded 100.
During his trial, Hojo said that the actual figure
far exceeded 100. “The number of victims was more than 300,” he told the Osaka District Court.
On February 18, the court handed Hojo a 20-year prison term over the drugging and raping of 10 confirmed male victims over a two-year period ending in March 2019, according to the