<figure id="attachment_463144" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-463144" style="width: 868px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="05bd9cc5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/362b90d3e9768edce200535d8b57d799.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-463144" class="wp-caption-text">Moe Harukawa fulfilled her dream of working at a Pokémon Center, but &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> The murder weapon was wrapped in a towel and tied with a rubber band</span></h2>
<p> Inside Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. At around 7:15 p.m. on March 26 at the &#8220;Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo,&#8221; which is crowded with many children and fans,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> A man and a woman were bleeding and beaten to death.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Two people, a man and a woman, are bleeding and lying on the floor.</span></p>
<p> Two people, a man and a woman, were bleeding and lying on the floor.</p>
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<p> The scene was a commercial facility on a weekday night during spring break. Customers running away, store clerks screaming. In an instant, the happy space was transformed into a &#8220;murder scene&#8221; with no escape.</p>
<p> When the testimonies of investigators and security camera footage were pieced together, the extremely strong murderous intent and obsession of the suspect, Hirokawa Hiroki (26), emerged.</p>
<p> On the day of the incident, Hirokawa had gone out to eat with his mother in the morning, but after they parted, his steps were like a &#8220;countdown to the murderous act.</p>
<p> When he arrived at the basement floor of Sunshine City at around 6:45 p.m., he peeked inside the restaurant twice from outside. It is believed that he was checking the work status of Moei Harukawa, 21.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Approximately 10 minutes before the crime, the suspect entered a restroom near the store. He left his backpack in the private room and submerged his smartphone in the toilet bowl. He probably intended to cut off communication with the outside world and erase evidence.</span></p>
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<p> After leaving the restroom, Hirokawa stepped into the store without hesitation. His target, Ms. Harukawa, was inside the counter. Hirokawa went around the inside of the counter and, without giving her time to resist, stabbed her multiple times in the neck and other parts of her body with a knife-like blade wrapped in a cloth.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It took only about a minute from the time the attack began until the suspect decapitated himself and lost consciousness. The murder weapon, a blade left at the scene, was wrapped in a towel and bound with a rubber band, which may have been calculated to prevent it from being carried or from slipping at the moment of the crime.</span></p>
<p> Hirokawa, who continued to attack his former girlfriend while crying and yelling, also took his own life shortly afterwards. There were other store employees and customers around, but Hirokawa did not even look aside as he targeted Harukawa alone.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_463118" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-463118" style="width: 6000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="748fb72c"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/04/a0236a7ec916bb97533e900619bc301b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-463118" class="wp-caption-text">Just after 7 p.m. on March 26, a violent act was committed at the Pokémon Center in Sunshine City, Ikebukuro: &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> She was a bright and kind girl. &#8230;&#8230;</span></h2>
<p> A woman who lives nearby told this site about Harukawa, the victim of the attack,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> She was really polite and proud of her daughter.</span></p>
<p> She was really polite and proud of her daughter,&#8221; she said in tears.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> She was the eldest of three siblings and took good care of her younger brothers and sisters. I often saw her carrying her family&#8217;s bags to the store on the weekends. She was a bright and kind girl who cared for both her father and mother. &#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p> She will be sorely missed.</p>
<p> He enjoyed playing basketball since he was a child and would always say, &#8220;Good morning!</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;Good morning!</span></p>
<p> Harukawa enjoyed playing basketball since she was a child and always greeted her neighbors with a &#8220;good morning&#8221; whenever they passed by. She finally found her &#8220;dream&#8221; of working part-time at the Pokemon Center.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> For her, working here was a dream come true. When the police advised her to change her job for security reasons, she said she was determined not to quit her job and that it was her dream to work here,&#8221; said an investigator.</span></p>
<p> Hirokawa told Moei, &#8220;You&#8217;re the only one who can help me,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Hirokawa was persistent in urging Moei to quit the Pokémon Center because it was not for her.</span></p>
<p> Hirokawa was persistent in his pressure on Moei, telling her that the Pokémon Center was not for her.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> I don&#8217;t know if that was the decisive reason for the breakup, but it is said that for Moei, the denial of her cherished dream was one of the major factors in her decision to part ways with him. It was the place of her dreams that she had finally grasped. To try to take it away from her must have been an unbearable betrayal for her.</span></p>
<p> Ms. Harukawa tried her best to live up to her last days at her dream workplace. And the distorted love-hate relationship between Hirokawa and the suspect nullified everything, including the restraining order by law and the request for surveillance by her mother. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department plans to send the suspect to prosecution for murder, leaving the suspect dead, but the future that was stolen from him will never return&#8211;and the future that was stolen from him will never return.</p>


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