Tokyo Massage Parlors: Tokyo Vice extract: Behind the Lucie Blackman story
Tokyo Vice extract: Behind the Lucie Blackman story
Lucie Blackman, a former British Airways stewardess, was working in a hostess bar in Japan when she went missing. Jake Adelstein, an American reporter on the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, was assigned to investigate.
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The tapes were in part-chronological order, but no tapes had been made around the period when Lucie had vanished. At the end of October the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office officially indicted Obara on the first of many charges. But he was still not talking. No one should have been surprised. He had graduated from the law department of Keio University. He knew the law, and how the police worked. Not only did he initially refuse to admit knowing Lucie at all, he also claimed that all the victims had been paid prostitutes who had consented to having sex with him.
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This is an edited extract from ‘Tokyo Vice’ by Jake Adelstein (Corsair, £8.99). To order a copy for £7.99 plus 99p p&p, call 0844-871 1515
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7832817/Tokyo-Vice-extract-Behind-the-Lucie-Blackman-story.html

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