Talk:Murder of Yasuko Watanabe

Victim's notebook of her clients

Your thoughts on how to handle this information. I have removed the unsourced statement: "It was discovered that she had kept a detailed diary of her many clients, included one of her bosses at TEPCO." (revison 07:52, 18 June 2012‎). Haven't been able to ascertain veracity on the bit about the bosses.

Shinichi Sano's book (Sano, Shinichi (佐野眞一) (2000). 東電OL殺人事件 (snippet). 新潮社.), it (p.56) mentions a boss named Akira Ohira (大平明) (son of fmr. Prime Minister), who in conversation with the author claimed he was able to pull strings with the police to find out (through an intermediary) that his own name did not appear either in the victim's address book or her 1996 notebook (techō (手帳)) (i.e., "client list diary"). Sano intones this does not entirely make this man in the clear, commenting that "1996 was not the only year that the police collected her notebook on". Doesn't establish Ohira's name being in the notebook.

Also think the phrase "detailed diary" misleading. An LA Times article says "She kept a detailed journal of the men with whom she had sex--at least 88--including dates, times and fees.."[1]) but I think "meticulous record of every transaction" might be more apt description. Don't think she gave out graphic details. Ripped from a webpage[2] a sample entry was "1996 Dec. 12, <? gaijin 3 men (401) 1.1 man>". This is supposedly the entry for when the victim accosted Mainali for the first time, and serviced him and two housemates at Apt. 401. --Kiyoweap (talk) 13:13, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Information on victim's journal re-added.

I've put the journal/diary bit back in to the article, minus the unsourced part about TEPCO bosses. It is a critical piece of information in which her killer's name might have been found within.

Markmark28 (talk) 04:31, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

How many years did Mainali serve?

Although he was acquitted in the first trial from lack of conclusive evidence, he was subsequently convicted on appeal by the Tokyo High Court (Dec. 22, 2000[4]), and given an indefinite term (life) sentence. He went on to spend fifteen years in prison, until exculpatory sets of DNA evidence emerged linking an unidentified third man who had sexual and violent contact with the victim in the immediate hours before her death. Mainali was released in June 2012, and deported back to his native country, pending the retrial.

This paragraph is poorly written. I would assume he was arrested shortly after the murder, acquitted in 2000, but then convicted on appeal shortly after, so he spent a total of 15 years in prison before being released and deported in 2012. But why "he went on to"? This implies the going on took place after the immediately preceding statement, December 2000. Can we change it to "He spent a total fifteen years in prison"? Or is "fifteen" a misprint for "twelve"?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:27, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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