Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Murder Case of Ear Cleaner Aesthetician

On Oct 21, prosecutors requested the death penalty for the suspect who is allegedly a murderer of the Ear Cleaner Aesthetician.

The reasons why this case got attention from nationwide are;

1) The first case prosecutor requests death penalty under the newly introduced jury trial system. Jury system has been introduced into Japan’s trial system since May 2009. It is because it has been pointed out for a long time that there were huge gaps between the judgments of the professional judges and common sense of ordinary people. Professional judges tend to sentence relatively light penalty to even the criminals who committed crucial homicides. Japan’s citizens called for more strict penalties to such criminals.


Since this jury system started, many cases had been judged by juries already. But this is the very first case prosecutors seek for death penalty. So, how the first judge by juries is going to be is the one of the reason why this case gets attention.

2) Weirdness of victim’s job: Ear Cleaner Aesthetician
This case’s victims were the young woman (20) who worked as ‘Ear Cleaner Aesthetician’ and her grandmother (78), killed by one of this young woman’s clients, 40-year-old man, of Ear Cleaner Aesthetic Salon.
Wait. Nobody knew that ear cleaning salon can be a business in Japan, until this case was appeared to public. Ear Cleaning salon is a place where young woman cleans your ear in a small Japanese style room, privately closed for anybody but just a young woman and you. And a young woman will clean your ear, putting your head on her thighs.

No need to say, this murderer needs to be strictly punished based on a law. This is a criminal case.


On the other hand, what I want to say to young women is just put yourself away from this kind of weird job.




Image Pic of Ear Cleaning Salon


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