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  1. Aoi Hanazawa, 33, a reporter for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on 26 August on suspicion of violating the Stalker Regulation Law for sending 64 messages to a certain national newspaper reporter in her 30s, with whom she had a relationship, via the PayPay chat function between 17 and 25 August.

    The reporter had been consulting with the Metropolitan Police Department for about a year, saying that he had been the victim of a stalker. In August, the number of messages suddenly began to increase and Reporter A complained again about the damage, which led to her arrest.

    The relationship between the two was well known among political reporters covering Nagata-cho.

    [Continue reading (in Japanese)](https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2024/09031154/?all=1)

  2. “What kind of “suffering” did the arrested woman want her partner to share? A police matter that arose as a result of an illicit love affair” Shakespeare?

  3. She looks normal, right?

    Looks are irrelevant. I was stalked by a tiny 4’11” Japanese girl in college who would send me anonymous texts telling me “you wore this and were here at this time” daily and say she’d violate me in my sleep… She did this all in secret for a year, but I finally found out one night when she was drunk — the stalker was my damn roommate’s best friend, and actually would stand and watch me while I was sleeping… After college, she became a principal at one of the most prestigious schools in Hawaii, the one Obama attended…