Man arrested for mailing threats to Ayumi Hamasaki's home
 

On the 12th, Shibuya Metropolitan Police arrested Motokichi Fujii* (42) at his place of employment in Nishishin-cho 1, Akashi, Hyogo on charges of extortion after he sent a threatening letter to singer Ayumi Hamasaki's residence and attempted to extort money from the president of Avex Group Holdings, the parent company of Avex Management. Shibuya police are investigating how he obtained Ms. Hamasaki's home address.

"Deposit ¥500 million in the specified bank account within one week. Otherwise, I'm gonna burn the company president's house down. Boss's orders," wrote the suspect in a letter mailed to Ms. Hamasaki's home, trying to extort money from the company president. According to Shibuya police, he has admitted to the charges.

Fujii brought up names of other female singers belonging to Avex Management and made arson threats. His identity surfaced as he had written his full name and address on the envelope.

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translated by twofourths@LJ

Yeah, I saw this last night. Some guy mailed threats to Ayu's home saying that he'd burn down someone's home (I initially thought they meant Ayu's, but it seems like it's one of the heads at avex) if they didn't pay up...

It's kind of crazy if he actually thought he could get away with it...

omg =O

How stupid can you be?

ohmygod!! creepy!!!
Boss??
Yakuza?
Poor Ayu! D:
I'd be frightened!

omg this might have something to do with the drug scandal shes in! ayu! stay away from these meth heads.

She probably IS involved with the yakuza...

^* Aa, you're looking suspicious now, Hamasaki. :lech

This story...
Just..........

Lol.~ :lmfao

lol, such a dumb***

Only dumb criminal would do something like that

That is rather alarming. I'm not sure how sending the letters to Ayu would really do anything. That, and the rather weird fact that he signed his full name and address.

Anywho, I'm just thankful this doesn't happen more often. =|

EDIT: lol. Ayu could totally rock a yakuza persona. We could join her gang. xD

my reaction:


EPIC FAIL

LOL Of course he get's caught after putting his FULL name and FULL address on a letter.

uh either he's a damn idiot, or he or someone else wanted him to get caught :shrug

after kuu , its ayu..... so many crazy people

He wrote his own full name and his own address?! Maybe he want Ayu or other artists to recognize him. I salute him actually :D

well, that's kinda scary, and just weird o.O

Oh God. At first I was worried, but then after finding out he signed his name and address...that's just LOL.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6185/0052h.jpg

^ they didn't know

you salute a sick and twisted criminal who was mailing threats to ayu? wow... :no

Seems like the guy wanted to get caught, really. :P He probably never intended to go ahead with the threats and was waiting for someone to come get him.

Still, it's a little unsettling.

lol yeah that's just wrong on every single level

the guy obviously has some issues of his own

He wrote his own name and address? what a retard...:laugh

what an idiot man.. LOL

It sounds too American to be Japanese. :(

I left America to get away from American ways, and looks like i've found it here. Ugh.

This guy is such a crazy - -*

my only reaction
http://i49.tinypic.com/jf7sqx.jpg

omg ayU!!
its so scary :l

Wow. Full name and address huh? Might as well include a photo of himself too. I do hope he's not some sort of scapegoat for the higher-ups though.

Maybe he really didn't care if he did get caught?
That guy either has balls or he's just ******* stupid.
Thats bold.

Wonder who and what type of person his "boss" is?

:roflmao

holy. ****. O_o thats really rather stupid...

:roflmao That guy is too stupid XD
I believe that Ayu laughs over him :laugh

Thats scary.
So stupid to leave address and think to not to get caught smh

Wow, just goes to show there are dumb criminals everywhere in the world. :laugh

OMG! It's not very nice.

baka! :P
I wonder how he got her address :thud

What livejournal community was this posted at? Just curious

LOL, EPIC FAIL

This is going to be dumb criminals in Japan of the year :yes

WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS HOW SOME POSSIBLY RANDOM GUY GOT AYU'S HOME ADDRESS, YET NOT ONE OF US EVEN HAS IT?! and yeah that is pretty moronic to put your full name and address.. It almost makes you wonder if it was someone inside of avex?

this is scaryy~~
thanks God no one's hurt..
and i wonder how did that guy know Ayu's home add?

Wah thats scary indeed!
Stupid man though, writing name and everything there. Maybe he just wanted to be caught? :P

i hope she stays somewhere else for awhile, or moves!

i know Japan's supposed to be a safe place and all but that doesn't mean dangerous people don't exist there, and she's really not protected enough.

I hope nobody else was involved in this and I hope it doesn't have anything to do with the drug scandal or with anything bad that she might have gotten caught up in. Ayu will be okay, she has protection and probably is always staying with people and changing residences often.

Well, that was really shocking... And it appears that his behavior seemed to be not only threatening, but also more of those "scammers" techniques...

i think there is something wrong with this man...hahaha..

Ayu not protected enough? haha that's funny (not to be rude). Ayu most likely has body gaurds with her around the clock (even at home, since most likely they have become friends to an extent and don't just have a proffessional relationship.) I'm sure she doesn't stay at the same house (or apartment) every single night; most likely she changes living places rather frequently.

lol. This should be on that tv show the worlds dumbest criminals or something.

Honestly I'm sure she is fine. She is one of the most protected stars in Japan from what I can tell. It seems she has staff and protection with her at all times.

Honestly its not that difficult in Tokyo. Not to sound like a total stalker (haha) but there are only two areas in Tokyo where most celebs live so that narrows it down quite a bit. Also most celebs just walk around these areas unattended so celeb citings are pretty common actually. You can just go on 2channel and read the threads saying "I saw so and so here" "they are likely to live here" etc etc. Ayu is one of the few Japanese celebs who don't really seem to go out anywhere on their own so she is probably more difficult to track down but any disturbed fan (like this guy probably is) would know how to spot Stan or someone. Also someone could just follow her van back from music station, heyx3 etc etc. I only know this cause the place I always stay in Tokyo is in one of these areas.

this lol



thanks for this info thou. is good to know that this guy is gonna be on jail

OMG? just because of mailing Ayu? tsk tsk tsk...
welll, I think the man was try to make some fun with ayu (joking) maybe~

What was that guy thinking? lol

:yes
this is so.... -.-

Maybe...there are others reasons about the name on the letter?

1. to be indebted to sb? Maybe his debt was so big that he prefer to go to jail than die.

2. Someone could be able to put his name on the letter because that person wanted to hurt him. Maybe the account is not his own account.

3.He has psychological problem.

o.O whatever as long as there is no thread to Ayu...

I'd laugh at the man's stupidity, but it didn't seem so funny anymore when ayu herself sounded like she was scared half to death (latest TA entry). :no

world's dumbest criminal much?

Well, I think the scary thing was that he knew where she lived. I guess ayu got scared if some stranger could find out where she lived. It would be a closely guarded secret.

It's just a mentally ill fan... There are lots of those everywhere in the world and this kind of stuff is pretty common actually... That's the main reason big music icons have so much security... They are not afraid of random killers or something like that, they are afraid of insane fans...

LOL he wrote his full name?

How stupid, but I'm happy that he's that stupid.

I'm shocked!
I hope, Ayu-chan is alright! I'm very frightened now!

PLEASE Ayu, take care!!!

omfg! poor Ayu,
I thought exactly the same thing, he could be someone who has recently been fired from avex and wanted to take revenge in this way so absurd :(
anyway, I hope this guy is now in jail.

btw, is not there anyone in her house who monitor what comes to the mailbox? what kind of security is that?

i find it really suspicious that the man wrote his full name and address on the letter...
sounds to me like he was appresed by someone else to do it, i mean COME ON! no one is THAT dumb to write his name and all :/

Guys... the guy is insane, just that! Asking Ayu for money from Avex signing as "Boss" in order to not burn Avex' owner house is far from being a logical plan at all... I'm not surprised the letter had his name on it

He's a really idiot; I wanted to say something else but I figured that it'd be censored or against the rules ¬_¬ But really, what an idiot; threatening innocent Ayu? Writing his name and address on the envelope? Come on! Really...he's just terrible, not just as in cruel, but really really stupid.

That's what you call IDIOT xD

somehow its suspiciuos to leave your name & add on the envelope

sorry but can anyone translate this article related to this incident....tq
http://www.menscyzo.com/2010/02/post_888.html

:roflmao

geez...what a pathetic guy...

If Ayu's in the Yakuza, I think we should shut down the downloads section. x.x

ermm sounds like there's someone who had issue with Avex's company but where the hell does this guy got Ayu's adress?? it's better to give it to us XDD

:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao

btw, I'm glad that she's ok :)

What a freak! I'm surprised that Ayu doesn't get these more often. I have to admit that if I were her, I would have ignored it completely-- she probably did the right thing by reporting it, though.

If I get her address I would sell it here, I think I would get more than these 500million Yen lol

Seriously, I'm happy she's right.

It wasn't really a direct physical threat of harm against her. I think it could have been more serious had he threatened to hunt her down or burn down her house. If he was really intent on that money he would have gone to those extents I believe. I'm glad it did not turn into that situation, and I'm also glad the letter was intercepted before she read it herself. I'm sure it would have affected her very emotionally. Perhaps the man meant well and needed money, even if that wasn't the best way to go about it. With the press these days it's hard to tell if something has been sensationalized or reworded.

I looked at a Google translation of that article and mainly, it just talks about the same things and then has a paragraph about Ayu's troubles since 2007-ish with her ear and then in 2008 she fell and broke a few fingers in her home, I think. Basically it saying that Ayu has been through a lot recently, and this is just one more thing to add to that list.

Maybe that guy was a crazy fan who wanted to be caught... who knows XD
I was also scared at first, then was just an epic lol xDDDDDD

what an ass! :laugh

and for writing his full name and address!
I'm glad he got caught lol

.. nobody messes with Ayu! ;)

Oh gosh, at first I was all scared, but then I read the part where he wrote his name and address...

Wow. Just wow. XDDD

Uh, dur de durrr! :laugh

What a fool... At least he was caught? XD

yeah ayus been through too much for the past few years. . . this is just pathetic :(

I guess Namie was right, Japanese people DONT think hard, lol.

He seems to have problems with avex and there female artists I guess, poor ayu

^^ :laugh

He Wrote His Full Name And Address too :laugh :laugh

Oh man , Why the Address Is It A New way to date ? :laugh

Wow, what an idiot :no. That must have been a heart attack to see that, poor Ayu.

He's stupid and retarded. lol.

:roflmao

He even write that. Who is the real boss anyway? :mischief

poor Ayu...she had gone through a lot

one thing what if there's someone else that just wanna use this guy by putting his name and then when he got caught...yea the GAME is begin! OMG! i hope not *crossed finger*

Ayu please becareful from now on

LMAO.

Wow, uh, must be some crazy guy to think that would actually work...

what was the threat?

It's scary to get threats like that.
But seriously? Putting your full name and address on a threat letter is pretty dumb.

My oh mY!!! I don't know if he's just stupid or just stupid!!!

When I red that I was scared but all is well that ends well =D

the guy was jus fking stupid to leave his name on the letter. LOL

Sounds so incredible!!Great that captured him!!

Thanks so much for the info!

This isn't a fail, this is just pathetic. Why the hell would an extortionist be dumb enough to put his fullname and address on the threatening letter?

This guy needs to go to a psych-ward. His kind has no business in jail because he's too crazy to think rationally.

lol, nooblet to leave his name XD~ but then, I guess they'd need it if they want to deposit money... o-o

The guy out his name on the envelope? x'DD

This really explains what I feel right now. :yes