Raincoat fetish? Man steals high school girls’ raincoats, sells them online

Naoki Nakatani. An ordinary 30-year-old guy from Ibogawacho in Hyogo prefecture. Or is he?

Our friend Naoki here has been been selling some clothes via online auctions. Nothing unusual in that.

Except that he has been selling raincoats. A lot of them. And they have the names of girls’ high schools written on them, as one person who bought a raincoat from Nakatani found out.

Correctly assuming it was stolen, the customer contacted police, who then began to investigate.

Over the last six years, he had apparently visited local supermarket bicycle parking areas dozens of times and stolen raincoats kept in the baskets of bikes.

Police found almost 50 raincoats in Nakatani’s home, some 45 of which were said to be high school girls’.

“I was interested in high schoolgirls’ raincoats” was Nakatani’s excuse when he was arrested for theft in May this year.

So, another bizarre fetish gone wrong or just an entrepreneurial guy with an eye on a gap in the market? It could have been worse. He could have been stealing bicycle seats!