The Story of a Sexual Predator and Serial Rapist Killer

He drugged and raped over 400 women and killed two.

S.A. Ozbourne
13 min readMar 13, 2021
Joji Obara & the two hostesses he killed, Carita Ridgway and Lucie Blackman (Source:hk.appledaily.com)

“I lost my daughter and everything we’d ever share with her. I’ll never know the grandchildren she might have had. Her future disappeared because one man wanted to satisfy some weird sexual urge.”

-Mother of Carita

Traveling to a foreign country for work is always a risk. With no friends, family or people you can trust to help or support you, it can be quite scary. Especially if you don’t speak the language. But sometimes, moving to another country and starting fresh can be more trouble than just finding an apartment or getting along with coworkers. It can sometimes become dangerous.

This story is about one of those dangerous people who took advantage of young girls coming to work in Japan. Using his vast amounts of money, connections and resources, he was able to convince more than 400 girls to come to his apartment.

What they thought was a nice, Japanese businessman wanting to speak English and share a drink with beautiful foreign women, turned into a date with a serial rapist who used drugs and chloryform to incapicitate…

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S.A. Ozbourne

Canadian in Japan. Teacher, Crime writer, video editor, and pet lover. Follow my journey via my monthly newsletter: https://bit.ly/team-ozsome-subscribe