Japanese man treats everyone to free sushi
Imagine this: you’re sitting in a fancy sushi restaurant in Japan, and suddenly an older man stands up and announces that he’s treating the whole place. Free sushi for everyone! Sounds like a dream, right? Unfortunately, that dream became a lot less appetizing for many Japanese people when it turned out that their generous host, 71-year-old Kazunori Inagaki, had financed his treats with… stolen money.
Sushi with a bitter aftertaste
Inagaki, who is from Fukuoka, was recently arrested for a series of burglaries in which he stole a total of around 9.3 million yen (approximately €58,000). His favorite targets? Older people who weren’t home during the day, for example because they were working in the fields. He stole 140,000 yen from a 76-year-old woman, and even a 91-year-old lady fell victim. Not exactly an honorable sushi samurai, this man.
Making an impression
Why did he do it? Not to make ends meet, but to look cool. During his interrogation, he admitted that he initially started stealing because his pension wasn’t enough. But his motivation soon changed completely: he wanted to make an impression. So he used his stolen money to treat entire restaurants to expensive sushi and drinks, sometimes spending as much as 300,000 yen in one evening.
His excuse? He called himself a strawberry farmer – and even had a license plate on his car that read ‘ichigoyasan’ (Japanese for ‘strawberry farmer’). But in reality, he had never picked strawberries a day in his life. Instead, he was busy emptying homes in several Japanese prefectures.
Arrest
His luxurious lifestyle at other people’s expense came to an abrupt end when he was arrested in October. At first, he tried to claim that he ‘couldn’t remember anything’ about the burglaries, but as the evidence mounted, he eventually confessed to everything. His motivation? “I just wanted to look cool.” Well, perhaps he should simply have bought a fancy outfit for that instead of robbing elderly ladies.
So there was no modern-day Robin Hood: Inagaki didn’t steal from the rich to give to the poor – he stole from vulnerable elderly people to create a luxurious image for himself. Whether he’ll still get all-you-can-eat sushi in prison remains to be seen.
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Source: Soranews24
