The Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division rearrested Yukio Kaji, 42, an unemployed man of no fixed address, on suspicion of robbery and nonconsensual sexual intercourse, and of trespassing, the division said on the 4th. Kaji, who has already been indicted on robbery and nonconsensual sexual intercourse charges, is now under arrest for the 10th time.
He has been arrested in similar cases in Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures, according to the division. He has declined to speak to investigators, it said.
Investigators suspect that on April 16 Kaji entered a 40-something woman's condominium unit in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, several times by some means. Inside, they say, he stole about 640,000 yen in cash along with 17 items including cash cards and accessories worth roughly 317,000 yen at the time. He then threatened the woman with a knife and sexually assaulted her, according to the allegation.
The woman suffered injuries including bruises to her face that took a week to heal. She called 110 — Japan's emergency police number — and analysis of security camera footage and other evidence pointed to Kaji's involvement, the division said.
Police say Kaji waited inside the unit for the woman to return. The repeated arrests in similar cases across two prefectures, with a tenth arrest now recorded, come as he is already facing trial on the earlier charges.