A famous professional table tennis player “indecently acts against a student’s mother”.

After the suspect’s arrest was reported, a woman in her 30s, perhaps convinced that she herself had been victimized, went to the police to report that she had been subjected to an indecent act. The man was arrested again.

On September 30, the Saitama Prefectural Police Warabi Police Station re-arrested Kaii Konishi, 43, a professional table tennis player from Toda City, on suspicion of indecent assault. In June 2007, at a ping-pong school in Toda City where he teaches, he allegedly performed an indecent act on a woman in her 30s, the mother of a student, under the guise of giving her a massage. Konishi has remained silent when questioned by the police.

FRIDAY Digital” reported in detail on the incident in which Konishi was first arrested in an article distributed on August 26 this year. We would like to recount and look back at Konishi’s elaborate tactics and the meat of the story (some content has been corrected) — the following is a summary of the suspect’s story.

He seemed to have given up: ……

‘Would you like to come and observe now?’

The man called the mother of one of his students on the phone in the evening, just as the heat wave had eased somewhat. When the child went outside for a run and they were alone, the man reached for the mother’s body.

On August 20, the Saitama Prefectural Police Warabi Police arrested Konishi on suspicion of indecent assault. Konishi is a well-known professional table tennis player. He allegedly groped a woman in her 40s at the table tennis school where he teaches.

The suspect is from Hebei Province in northeastern China and started playing table tennis at the age of seven as Song Haiwei. He came to Japan during his first year of high school and entered a sports powerhouse high school in the Northeast.’ He is a well-known name in the world of table tennis, having won consecutive All-Japan Table Tennis Championships since ’04 and a bronze medal at the ’10 World Championships as a member of the men’s team.

After becoming a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2004, he married Anne Konishi, a member of the women’s table tennis team at the Sydney Olympics, in 2010. At the time, they were talked about as “the big couple in the table tennis world. He changed his name to Kaiwei Konishi after the marriage. In ’14, Anne opened a table tennis school “WEILAI”, which means “future” in Chinese, in Toda City, Saitama Prefecture. The alleged incident took place inside WEILAI,” said a reporter from the society section of a national newspaper.

WEILAI” was a table tennis school with a good reputation, with students coming from other prefectures to attend the school where top athletes directly instruct. However, the trouble occurred between past 5:00 and 5:30 in the evening of August 7.

The suspect, Konishi, calls the mother of one of his students, Mrs. A, on the phone and asks her if she would like to come and observe the school. When the child went out for a run and the two were alone, Konishi allegedly committed an indecent act on Ms. A in the instructor’s space in the school. Distressed, Ms. A consulted the police two days later on August 9, saying, ‘I was touched at the table tennis school my child attends. Based on the statements of the persons involved, the police arrested Konishi.

(The same before).” In response to the police investigation, Konishi denied committing the crime for the purpose of indecent assault with the following surprising statement.

I touched a woman’s body for a massage.

Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on August 21, this magazine’s photographer filmed the suspect’s transport to the police station. He was sitting in the backseat of the convoy with his mouth tied in a straight line, his expression showing signs of resignation. He looked straight ahead and did not hide his face from the press.

The police received other inquiries about Konishi, which led to his re-arrest as described above.