- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Pennant Books Ltd (30 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906015228
- ISBN-13: 978-1906015220
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In modern Tokyo, one international tragedy reveals a concealed web of disappearances and deaths... In April 2007, bankrupted millionaire Joji Obara was imprisoned for life by a Tokyo court for manslaughter and six counts of rape. Evidence included videotapes of him raping his drugged victims, including Australian traveller Carita Ridgway. Controversially, Obara was acquitted of killing 20-year-old English bar hostess Lucie Blackman in 2000 - her remains found encased in stone. WHITE LILIES provides an analysis of this harrowing chain of events from both Western and Japanese perspectives. Moving through the bars and nightlife of modern Tokyo, it illuminates a world where cultural tradition and an alienated urban culture live side by side. Obara is revealed as the alienated product of hi-tech society: unable to relate to women personally or sexually, they were objects he viewed through his camcorder. Inextricably linked to Lucie's death, her family's appeal against his acquittal was heard by the Tokyo High Court at the end of 2008 - which found him guilty of abducting, molesting and disposing of Lucie, but not killing her. Meanwhile, foreign ('gaijin') women working in Japan continue to be murdered or to disappear. In 2007, English language teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker was found dismembered in a bath full of sand; as this book recounts, the trust set up in Lucie Blackman's name is currently helping to guide Lindsay's grief-stricken parents through the tortuous Japanese legal system. But, as a Japanese MP points out, far more Asian girls than Westerners have been victimised under these circumstances. In WHITE LILIES, we ask: Is there a hidden Japan, where untraced murders belie the crime statistics? Is the East's most industrialised nation undergoing a similar wave of psychological alienation and sex crime to the West?
About the Author
Paul Woods is Pennant Books' True Crime editor. His genre credits include controversial documentaries on the Wests (UK) and Leonard Lake/Charles Ng (US) revealing how the killers videoed their activities. Des Connery has lived in Japan and written several studies of its cinema culture.
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