Category: Hirohito Shibuya

A fortune-teller under arrest for threatening a woman who refused to join his harem was hit Wednesday with a new arrest warrant accusing him of attempting to force another woman to live with him, Tokyo police said. Hirohito Shibuya, 58, a self-proclaimed fortune-teller from Higashiyamato, western Tokyo, is accused of attempted compulsion. His former wife, 26-year-old Chiaki Shibuya, was also arrested over her alleged role in the case. Shibuya admitted to the allegations while his former wife, who still lived with him, denied that she played a part in the incident, local police said. The two ordered a 26-year-old woman

A man under arrest for threatening a woman who wouldn’t join his harem has admitted to the allegations, police said. Hirohito Shibuya, who claims to be a fortune-teller, invited a 20-year-old woman to live with him and some 10 other women sometime around November last year. When she refused the offer, Shibuya, 57, allegedly told her, “You will be in danger if you tell anyone that I invited you.” Since being arrested on Jan. 26, Shibuya has talked with officers about his communal life with the women. “With several women living with me, my income rose and my life became

TOKYO, Jan. 27–(Kyodo) _ Police on Friday seized a stun gun and tear gas spray from the home of a 57-year-old man who was living with 11 women and a baby in Tokyo, a day after he was arrested for allegedly threatening a 20-year-old woman demanding that she lives with him as well. The police said the mother of one woman came to the home of Hirohito Shibuya in Higashiyamato in western Tokyo in around 2000 to try to bring home her daughter who was living in the group, and Shibuya allegedly sprayed the mother with tear gas. The police

A 57-year-old fortune-teller arrested on suspicion of threatening a young woman who refused to live with him and a harem of other women told the victim she would be turned into mince if she left, police investigators said. Police accused the suspect, Hirohito Shibuya, of threatening the victim after he failed to convince her to live with him and his harem of nearly a dozen women, several of whom he had reportedly married for short periods. Police reportedly confiscated numerous books on hypnotism from Shibuya’s home. They are analyzing them to determine whether they were connected with Shibuya’s alleged actions.