Woman falls asleep on Japanese train, wakes up prisoner inside stranger’s apartment

A woman who fell asleep on a train woke up to find herself abducted and trapped in the home of a man she did not know.

The 28-year-old company employee from Adachi ward in east Tokyo was allegedly confined between June 4th and June 5th after she fell asleep on a train.

The suspect is 33-year-old Yoshifumi Kurita, a temp from Sagamihara, who was arrested by Kanagawa police on June 18th.

According to police, Kurita is maintaining silence, though there have been five similar cases in the area around where there crime took place.

The victim had been out drinking and was riding on a JR train in Tokyo in the early hours of June 4th when she fell asleep. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a futon in Kurita’s apartment in the morning. He was in the apartment as well, though the woman was able to run away and contact police.

Be careful about falling asleep on a train.

Japanese trains are dangerous places for women despite the female-only carriages. You might easily get groped (perhaps by multiple men) or find your panties have been snapped by the phone camera of a horny fellow passenger. You might even find your skirt has been cut.

And we all remember the case of the man who kissed a sleeping woman on a train.

It reminds us of those notorious pictures of former AKB48 idol Atsuko Maeda being carried home totally drunk — no doubt to wake up in the bed of the man carrying her.