A doctor arrested for the seventh time “locked up” a female patient in her twenties in his clinic and indecently treated her.

“During the ‘blank time’…”

He said, “I was very useful. I’m not sure how many times I’ve had trouble with them. But I didn’t know that he had caused trouble many times. ……”

The master of the bar the reporter frequented sighed. The person who was “causing trouble repeatedly” was Jun Izawa, 55, a psychiatrist and director of the Tokyo Clinic, a psychosomatic medicine clinic in Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo.

As mentioned in the introduction, the clinic was a well-known clinic in Kabukicho that dispensed medicine as requested by patients. Meanwhile, an incident was uncovered. On April 1, the Shinjuku Police Department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced the arrest of Izawa on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse. This is the seventh time Izawa has been arrested. When he was arrested in March 2010 on charges of violating the Methamphetamine Control Law and assaulting a woman, he was sentenced to two years and four months in prison the following year.

Isawa resumed his clinic in May of last year after his release from prison. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare is considering revoking his medical license in response to the prison sentence, but it will take some time before a decision is made. During the “gap” before the disciplinary action is taken, the suspect caused trouble again.

The modus operandi of the current case is extremely despicable.

The incident occurred in August of last year. The victim was a female patient A in her 20s. When the medication she was taking ran out, she searched the Internet and visited Izawa’s clinic for the first time because her hospital was closed for the vacations.

After examining Ms. A, Isawa accompanied her to the pharmacy where she picked up her prescription, and when Ms. A received her medication, Isawa took her back to the clinic saying, “I still have to see my doctor. There were no other staff members at the clinic, and when Ms. A was left alone with the suspect, he locked the entrance and “locked her up,” allegedly committing an indecent act.

She thought the clinic was the place to commit the crime.”

After being victimized, Ms. A consulted her boyfriend on the same day. The man searched the Internet and learned of Izawa’s past arrests, and reported the crime to the Shinjuku Police Station. When questioned by the police, Izawa remained silent, and Ms. A said, “After I became a victim, I couldn’t trust people anymore. I was robbed of my daily life.

Former Kanagawa Prefectural Police detective and crime journalist Taihei Ogawa explains.

It is true that the crime was committed in the seclusion of the clinic, and there is little evidence, making it difficult to prove. If there had been no complaint from the victim, it might not have come to light. The suspect may have taken advantage of the difficulty of the investigation, and targeted a time when he was alone with the victim.

The fact that the clinic reopened shortly after he was released from prison suggests that the suspect considered the clinic as a place to commit the crime. In a clinic, it is difficult to determine whether touching a female patient is a medical act or an indecent act. If the allegations are true, this is a malicious act that exploits the suspect’s position and location.

The police are investigating further, believing that Izawa may have committed additional crimes.