Man arrested for pouring urine on female train passenger

‘Tis the season for giving, they say, but perhaps this 31-year-old Japanese man took that custom a little far — and very much in the wrong direction.

Kyosuke Katsu, a company employee in Gamagori, Aichi, was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after he poured urine on the clothing of a fellow passenger on a train.

According to police and media reports, Katsu used a straw to squirt or pour urine onto the clothing of a 32-year-old woman who was sitting in front of him while the train was traveling from Okazaki Station to Gamagori Station at around 11 o’clock at night on December 20.

He allegedly used a straw to reach between the backrests of the seats. The straw was protruding from a plastic container with urine (we guess it was his?) and he poured some of the urine onto the woman’s back.

Katsu has apparently admitted his guilt. “There’s no doubt that it it was me who poured urine on the woman,” he was quoted as saying.

Police are now investigating the motive, though it is probably clear enough to most readers: Mr Katsu is some sort of urine fetishist.

Urine fetish is not unknown in Japan, though most famously manifests as taking pleasure in seeing a woman squirm and struggle not to wet herself (known as omoroashi).