<figure id="attachment_289049" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-289049" style="width: 2568px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="201951ee"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/32ed4f548674e95f05348789c059e7ef.jpeg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-289049" class="wp-caption-text">Hanamori was transferred to the Takanawa Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in August 2009.</figcaption></figure>
 The man&#8217;s conduct was extremely dangerous, and the injuries he inflicted on the man were serious.
 The presiding judge condemned the man&#8217;s crime.
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 On February 28, the Tokyo District Court (Presiding Judge Ken Nomura) sentenced Hirotaka Hanamori, 26, to three years and six months in prison for assault and other crimes. In August 2009, Hanamori ambushed Mr. A, a junior at university, for about 3 hours. In August 2009, the defendant allegedly ambushed Mr. A, a junior student at the university, and poured highly concentrated sulfuric acid on him at Shirokane-Takanawa Station (Minato-ku, Tokyo) on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, causing him to suffer serious injuries that would require approximately three months of recovery.
 Mr. Hanamori followed Mr. A, a junior student at the University of the Ryukyus who worked for a real estate company in Akasaka, Tokyo, to commit the crime, causing severe burns to his skin from his face to his chest. The day after the crime, Hanamori fled to Okinawa. The next day, Hanamori fled to Okinawa and was found by the Okinawa Prefectural Police at a park in Nakagusuku Village, near where he was hiding.
 Hanamori and Mr. A belonged to the same &#8220;University of the Ryukyus Film Society,&#8221; and when Mr. A met Hanamori by chance on a street in Tokyo in July 2009, Hanamori told him about his grudge against him, saying that he had called him names as a &#8220;tame&#8221; when he was in college. Since then, Hanamori had been following her several times until the incident occurred,&#8221; said a reporter from the society section of a national newspaper.
 At the trial, the prosecution argued that the keloid scar on the victim&#8217;s face would last a lifetime, and that Ms. A was &#8220;unable to walk around with her skin exposed due to the scar. For Ms. A, a sentence of three years and six months seems light.
 In an article distributed on September 10, 2010, FRIDAY Digital introduced Hanamori&#8217;s &#8220;bully boy&#8221; days, based on the testimony of those involved. We would like to look back on Hanamori&#8217;s life leading up to the incident (some parts of the article have been corrected).
<h2> Grasshopper as a pencil sharpener: &#8230;&#8230;</h2>
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 Upon receiving the news of the incident, a person who knew Hanamori from his elementary school days testified as follows
 I was surprised when I immediately realized, &#8216;It&#8217;s Hanamori-kun! I was surprised. The reason why I remembered him is because Hanamori-kun was a notorious bully at school. He would sneak around and relentlessly bully kids he didn&#8217;t like. He even forced the boy to eat caterpillars and slugs.
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 Hanamori was born in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He had a father who was a well-known osteopath and a mother who was Chinese and a medical professional. They were well-off, but were kept at a distance by those around them. A classmate from elementary school recalls the following
 [Joon&#8217;s father] was busy with work and didn&#8217;t interact with him much, but he was very attached to his mother and often spoiled her. He was good at studying but not good at sports, and he did not participate in many school events such as sports festivals. He floated around in class and was always alone.
 I sometimes broke every single one of the exhibits that everyone in the class had made, or stuffed live grasshoppers into the pencil sharpener shared by the class. He was quick to lose his temper, and people thought he was creepy.
 As mentioned above, Hanamori was a persistent bully to his classmates. The mother of one of his classmates continued, &#8220;Hanamori&#8217;s bullying was very aggressive.
 Hanamori-kun&#8217;s bullying became quite an issue at the parents&#8217; meeting, and the details of the bullying made me want to turn away. There were stories not only of violence such as throwing stones at the targeted child and beating him, but also of feeding him insects and cow dung. He would grab his tormentor&#8217;s weakness and mentally push him to the edge, saying things like, &#8220;If you tell on me, I&#8217;ll kill you.
 When Hanamori entered a local junior high school and then a private high school, he became even more isolated. He changed his environment at university, where he met Mr. A. He understood that Mr. A &#8220;spoke to him as if he were a friend.
 Hanamori committed the crime for the unfathomable reason that he &#8220;talked to her as if she was a friend. Did the incident stem from the refracted emotions that had been smoldering inside him since childhood?
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<figure id="attachment_298155" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-298155" style="width: 2042px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8eae2c13"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/03/dec6c118af8c9ce50581da714385943d.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-298155" class="wp-caption-text"> Hanamori was transferred to the Takanawa Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in August 2009.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_298157" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-298157" style="width: 986px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a945aaa9"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/03/a47a6f9d14796abe10f90888ed0330d6-1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-298157" class="wp-caption-text"> Hanamori was transferred to the Takanawa Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in August 2009.</figcaption></figure>

 Shinji Hasuo

 A man who poured sulfuric acid on a junior at university, causing keloids on his face that would last a lifetime, has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison. The motive for the crime was that he had been "talked down to". The testimonies of those involved introduce the horrifying experience of being bullied by a bully who "made him eat slugs.

Sentenced to only 3 years and 6 months in prison&#8230; &#8220;Sulfuric Acid Man&#8221; who &#8220;made keloids on the face of a junior student&#8221; tells the horrifying story of his &#8220;bullying days.

Sentenced to only 3 years and 6 months in prison… “Sulfuric Acid Man” who “made keloids on the face of a junior student” tells the horrifying story of his “bullying days.

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