Born Kim Sung Jong(金聖鐘) in 1952 to poor Korean parents in Osaka, he had inherited with his two brothers the enormous fortune his family eventually made in pachinko parlours
On Tuesday a judge in Tokyo's District Court will hand down a verdict in the tortuous six-year legal proceedings against Obara,
Obara is also being tried for the rapes of eight other women, four foreign and four Japanese, but police believe that the tally is considerably higher. In persistent leaks to Japan's newspapers, they have told of finding at least 400 professionally-filmed rape scenes in his vast video collection. In many of the chilling images, Obara wears nothing but the mask of Zorro as he allegedly molests his unconscious or semi-conscious victims. Among them were more than 150 western women, including Carita.
Obara is alleged to have written in his diary, "My goal is to have sex with 500 people by the age of 50," and in a separate entry, "I can't do women who are conscious."
who is now 55. He is accused of raping and killing Carita and another foreign woman, Lucie Blackman, a British hostess who vanished in 2000 and was found dismembered in a shallow grave less than 100 metres from Obara's white stucco apartment building, the "Blue Sea".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1737805,00.html He was born Kim Sung Jong in 1952 to Korean parents in Osaka. His father was a poor immigrant who built himself a fortune in taxis, property and pachinko At 15, Kim Sung Jong was sent to the preparatory school for the private and prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. It was at this time that he underwent surgery on his eyes to make them larger and less oriental, and he took on a new, Japanese name, Seisho Hoshiyama. 英THE TIMES紙の8月17日記事で、織原城二(金聖鐘)が在日である事が英国紙では初めて報道された。 この記事には、金聖鐘は親がパチンコとタクシー会社の経営で築いた多額の遺産を相続、 15歳で東京に出てきて慶応に通い、この時期に整形手術をし、金聖鐘を使うのを止め通名の星山聖二を名乗りだす、 96年にカナダ人女性のドナさんに薬を盛りレイプ、ドナさんは六本木警察署に被害届けを出すが、在日の圧力とパチンコ・マネーで警察が動かず、と記載。
He was born Kim Sung Jong in 1952 to Korean parents in Osaka. His father was a poor immigrant who built himself a fortune in taxis, property and pachinko, the addictive Japanese version of bagatelle. At 15, Kim Sung Jong was sent to the preparatory school for the private and prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. There he studied politics and law. It was at this time that he underwent surgery on his eyes to make them larger and less oriental, and he took on a new, Japanese name, Seisho Hoshiyama.