I’ll go to your parents. I’ll go to your parents, I’ll kill your parents… The defendant, in his 20s, laughed in court.

They said, “We will bury him. Bury him. Disembowel him.”

On October 20, the Tokyo District Court held the first trial of Yuto Oshiro (24 at the time of his arrest) and Kaito Oshiro (25 at the time of his arrest), representatives of a construction company, who are accused of robbery, arrest, and confinement of a male client for three months and assaulting and injuring him.

According to the indictment, in January of this year, Yuto and Kaito, who were friends, conspired to break into a man’s house with a number of others. They then put the man in a car and abducted him to an accommodation facility in the suburbs, where they held him captive and assaulted him while moving him from place to place for about three months until the end of April.

Kaito, who entered the courtroom first, was wearing a navy blue jacket over a white T-shirt and flashy patterned half pants underneath. He smiled when his eyes met those of an acquaintance in the audience. Next, Yuto entered the courtroom wearing a black suit. He wore glasses with transparent celluloid frames and looked slender compared to the stoutly built Kaito. Despite his appearance, the courtroom revealed the gruesome assault by Yuto and the other defendants, which was hard to bear to hear.

When the judge asked, “Is there anything wrong with the indictment? Yuto answered, ” No, ” and Kaito admitted, “No.” The judge asked, “Is there anything wrong with the indictment?

You have the money, give it to me. I’ll go to your parents. I’ll kill them!

At the man’s house, Yuto and the other defendants hurled threats at him, punched him in the face, cut off his head with clippers, and robbed him of about 850,000 yen in cash, gift certificates, nine luxury watches, and other property worth a total of 3.2 million yen.

After that, they put the man in the back seat of the car and moved him around. While in the car, they continued to threaten him, saying things like, ‘We’ll bury you. While they were on the move, they continued to threaten him with words such as, ‘We’ll bury you, we’ll tear you apart. He inflicted second-degree burns on 10% of his body (burns that extended beyond the epidermis to the dermis) by forcing a hot frying pan on him and pouring boiling water on him,” said a reporter in charge of justice for a national newspaper.

What prompted the horrific assault?

The male victim said, “It’s my fault.”

A company A, where the male victim worked, was the main contractor and received complaints that some of the interior crossings installed by the construction company represented by the Yuto defendants were floating. When the man told them that he would pay approximately 700,000 yen in compensation after the cross-laying was redone, Yuto asked for cooperation from Kaito and others, and around mid-January, they temporarily detained the man and succeeded in recovering the unpaid money. After that, an acquaintance who was in financial trouble with Company A told them, ‘If you can recover the unpaid money, we will pay you a few percent of the recovered money as a reward,’ so they locked up the man again. This time, he caused the current incident.

The assault on the man escalated, and video was captured and shared of the man being stabbed with a screwdriver and beaten on the finger with a hammer. The video of the assault on the man was shared, showing his obsessive attempts to squeeze money out of him, including forcing him to make fraudulent phone calls and to be involved in a special fraud case.

On April 30, the defendants crashed into a cab in Toshima Ward, and the police found a man in a passenger car and took him into custody.

The man had suffered serious injuries, including broken ribs and burns over his entire body, resulting in a six-month recovery from the assault during confinement. He was also suffering from symptoms such as blurred vision in his right eye. He was malnourished and had dropped from 80 kilograms to 60 kilograms, and was severely emaciated. Even so, the man defended the defendants for a while, saying that he was not locked up and that it was my fault,” said an investigator.

We wonder if we will hear any words of remorse from the defendants at the upcoming trial.