Sharp glare from behind brown hair… Former ballet instructor “indecently assaulted his student, a junior high school girl, for 30 minutes” – the alleged obscenity
The suspect told the police, “I played with him and tickled him, but I don’t think I committed any indecent acts.
The man told the police that he denied the charge.
On June 15, the Mukojima Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Takeshi Kuratani, 49, an unemployed man living in Yokohama City, on suspicion of indecent assault without consent. Kuratani is a former instructor who ran a ballet school. He is alleged to have hugged and touched his student, a teenage junior high school girl.
The alleged incident occurred at around 5:00 p.m. on December 29 last year. The location was Kuratani’s ballet school in Sumida Ward. On that day, after the lesson, he was doing year-end cleaning with his students. When the cleaning was finished, Kuratani left Ms. A behind and sent the other students home.
Once alone with Ms. A, the suspect Kuratani hugged her from behind, calling it skinship. Ms. A must have been unable to resist Kuratani’s actions. In April of this year, Ms. A’s mother reported the incident to the police after receiving a consultation. The incident came to light.
He did the same thing to other students.
The photographer for this magazine photographed the suspect’s sending off to the police station on June 17. From behind his long brown hair, he glared sharply at the press.
As mentioned at the beginning of this article, Kuratani denied the charges. On the other hand, he told the police that he had done the same thing to other students. Former Kanagawa Prefectural Police detective and crime journalist Taihei Ogawa said.
I believe the police were looking into extra charges after being consulted by Mr. A’s family. As a result of the investigation, they must have found that the suspect Kuratani was frequently causing problems and decided to arrest him.
If it is true that Kuratani committed the crimes, his tactics were very systematic, such as making other students leave so that he could be alone with Ms. A. He also had a strong attitude toward the instructor and was difficult to deal with. He also took advantage of the weak position of the students, who find it difficult to take a strong attitude toward the instructor. This is an extremely vicious crime.
There were about 10 students at Kuratani’s ballet school. More crimes against girls may be revealed in the future.




PHOTO: Shinji Hasuo
