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<p> What did &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In &#8220;Playback Friday,&#8221; we revisit the topics that were hot at the time. This time, we will introduce the <span class="strongInContent">article &#8220;Osaka Junior High School 1st Grade Dumping Case: This Magazine Discovered X Suspect&#8217;s Sexual Habits, Family, and Bottomless Evil,&#8221;</span> which appeared in the September 11, 2003, issue 10 years ago.</p>
<p> In the early morning of August 13, 2003, two first-year junior high school students, Mr. A (13) and Mr. B (12), both boys and girls, went missing in Neyagawa City, Osaka Prefecture, and Mr. A&#8217;s body was found late that night and Mr. B&#8217;s body eight days later on August 21. X (45), a contract employee, was arrested. FRIDAY&#8217;s interview with X revealed his 45-year history of evil deeds, which were riddled with abnormal sexual urges (All ages and titles are current at the time. (All ages and titles are from that time, and descriptions in parentheses are taken from past articles).</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Junior High School Boys and Girls Go Missing in an Early-Morning Shopping Arcade</span></h3>
<p> At around 8:20 p.m. on August 21, &#8217;15, X was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body of Ms. A on a street in Joto-ku, Osaka. Mr. A and Mr. B, who attended the same junior high school, were approached by X in the early morning of August 13 when they were near a shopping street near Neyagawa-shi Station on the Keihan Line and were believed to have been taken away. The following testimony was published in this magazine at the time.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;The security camera in the arcade caught them walking back and forth in the shopping arcade at 5:08 am. About three minutes later, at 5:11 a.m., another security camera near the station captured X&#8217;s light wagon car heading in the direction of the Neyagawa Station rotary, and six minutes later, at 5:17 a.m., it caught them driving off in the direction from which they came. It is strongly suspected that X approached the two men near Neyagawa-shi Station and abducted them during this short period of time,&#8221; said a reporter from the society section of a national newspaper.</span></p>
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<p> Eighteen hours later, at around 11:30 p.m. on the same day, the two were seen running away from Takatsuki City. The cause of death of Ms. A was asphyxiation, and the body of Mr. B was decomposing, and some of his bones had turned white. Both were wrapped with adhesive tape around their faces, and Mr. A&#8217;s body had stab wounds and cuts that reached as far as the bone.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">Jailed for 12 Years for Repeated Violence and Confinement</span></h3>
<p> X grew up in a public housing complex in Hirakata City, Osaka Prefecture. He had parents who worked together and a younger sister, a family that could be found anywhere. However, when he was in junior high school, he pranked a young boy in a public lavatory and was sent to a juvenile reformatory for the same offense. After coming out, he joined a local motorcycle gang and did whatever he wanted. He is a bad guy from the bottom up,&#8221; said an acquaintance who knew him at the time.</p>
<p> In 2002, when he was 32 years old, he approached a junior high school boy and asked, &#8220;Where is Neyagawa City Station? and robbed a junior high school boy of his cell phone and cash. He was arrested on suspicion of robbery, arrest, and confinement. A person who met X in prison described the situation as follows: &#8220;In prison, X was saying to me, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to go to Neyagawa City Station,&#8217; and he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to go to Neyagawa City Station.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> But when we met again after his release, he confessed to me, &#8216;Actually, I was caught for robbery and confinement at that time. I knew he was a bisexual pedophile because he said, &#8216;Little girls are like little sisters and brothers, they are fun to be with, and they are cute,'&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p> After his release from prison in October 2002, X found a job as a decontamination worker at a nuclear power plant on an Internet job site in December and began working in Fukushima Prefecture. A colleague at the time told us.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;X came to our company in late July. He dragged her to the dormitory in Minamisoma, where he had worked before, and they went at it for a week, even though it was a women-only area, and he was fired after his moans leaked out all over the dormitory. He also said that he had a wife and a stepdaughter who were married in prison.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> His work attitude was surprisingly serious, but after work, all he could think about was sex. He always had a bottle of Viagra on hand, and would boast that he had pulled it out three times at a delicatessen in Sendai. When I looked at his genitals in the bathroom of his dormitory, I found them uneven. He laughed and said, &#8216;Women will be happy to see that. When we went to a convenience store together, he would look at a boy browsing through a comic book as if he were devouring it.</span></p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">The &#8220;Osaka Murder Row&#8221; in the summer of &#8217;15</span></h3>
<p> During the summer vacation from August 9 to 16, 2003, X went back to his parents&#8217; house in Neyagawa. On the way there, he stopped in Tokyo and participated in an orgy he found on an adult website bulletin board for two days in a row, and also tried to pick up girls in Akihabara. He reported his itinerary to his acquaintances on LINE and Facebook. In the early hours of the morning of the 13th, he turned on Ms. A and Mr. B near Neyagawa Station. X&#8217;s behavior on that day was particularly dizzying.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Around 11:30 a.m. on the 13th, he met with a former fellow inmate at the Osaka Prison in Sakai City as if to create an alibi. After that, he moved to Kashiwabara City and purchased adhesive tape at a convenience store near where Mr. B&#8217;s body was found. Returning again to the Neyagawa area, he dumped Mr. A&#8217;s body in a parking lot in Takatsuki City and returned to his home in Neyagawa City at around 11:30 p.m.</span></p>
<p> On August 16, after the crime, X went sightseeing at Tsutenkaku Tower and drove back to Fukushima, where he worked. He returned to Osaka the same day.</p>
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<p> At around 1:00 a.m. on the 21st, X&#8217;s car was found in a coin-operated parking lot in Doyama-machi, Kita-ku, and he was followed for 19 hours by investigators from the prefectural police, who arrested him on the street in Joto-ku that night. During the pursuit, he stopped by the scene of the dumping of the body of Mr. B, which led to the discovery of his body.</p>
<p> The focus of the case narrowed down to whether or not X had murdered the two. However, X, who had been chatting with them when he was first arrested, had turned silent.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">Even after being sentenced to death, he continues to wield his surroundings.</span></h3>
<p> X was indicted for the murders of Mr. A and Mr. B, and his trial began in November 2006 <span class="strongInContent">.</span> He also pleaded not guilty to manslaughter of Mr. B, claiming that his death was caused by heatstroke <span class="strongInContent">.</span> In December 2006, the court denied most of X&#8217;s claims and sentenced him to death.</p>
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<p> There was no direct evidence that X committed the murders, and the motive for the murders remained unclear. In particular, the murder of B-kun remained a mystery due to the poor condition of his body, and there was room for dispute. Naturally, the defense appealed to the Osaka High Court on the same day. However, an unexpected situation arose.&#8217; On May 19, 2007, X suddenly withdrew the appeal on his own. The reason given was that he had become desperate due to a problem with a detention center staff member.</p>
<p> The defense attorney asked the court to invalidate this withdrawal of the appeal. The Osaka High Court ruled that the appeal was invalid, but the prosecution appealed against this decision, and a hearing to determine whether the withdrawal was valid or not continued for some time. However, during the hearing, X filed a second motion to withdraw the appeal.</p>
<p> Although X himself did not give a reason for this, it seems that he was dissatisfied with the way he was treated in the detention center at the time, including restrictions on correspondence. At that time, X wrote in a postcard to his lawyer, &#8220;I will be hanged until my execution, thinking only of cursing the staff of the letter writing department. Thus, on August 25, 2009, X was sentenced to death.</p>
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<p> A man who lived in the same cell at Tokushima Prison, where X was imprisoned until October 2002, said the following about the reason for the withdrawal of the first appeal.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;&#8216;Even if you commit a crime, you can receive a pardon if the year changes from Heisei. When he was in Tokushima Prison, he used to say this all the time. He also said, &#8216;In order to receive a pardon, you have to have a fixed sentence. Even if he was sentenced to death, his sentence would not become final if he appealed. So I think he suddenly withdrew it after the change of the law to Reiwa on May 1, &#8217;19&#8221; (from &#8220;FRIDAY,&#8221; September 24, &#8217;21 issue).</span></p>
<p> In the end, X was never pardoned; it seems certain that he was only thinking of himself, not facing up to his crimes until the very end.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" X&#39;s &quot;murder schedule&quot; in the summer of 2003."></div>
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<figure id="attachment_436488" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-436488" style="width: 4124px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="385d6868"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/08/7c43025048c131d52f80c34fb9cc9428.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-436488" class="wp-caption-text"> The parking lot of a logistics company in Takatsuki, Osaka, where Ms. A&#8217;s body was found (from the September 24, 2009 issue).</figcaption></figure>


 Kei Kato (1st), Takashi Yoshida (4th)

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 In this issue of Playback, we look back at what we reported 10, 20, and 30 years ago. In this issue, we look back at the career of the perpetrator of the "Neyagawa Junior High School 1st Grade Murder Case," which took place in August 2003, and his history of abnormal sexual desires.

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