Restaurant manager, worker held in abduction, rape of customer in Osaka

Restaurant manager, worker held in abduction, rape of customer in Osaka
Thursday, May 17, 2007




OSAKA �A woman who was allegedly abducted from a restaurant on May 9 by the manager and a co-worker and then raped told police Thursday there were others involved. According to police, the manager of the Shinsaibashi branch of the Pepper Lunch steak house chain, Daisuke Kitayama, 25, and a co-worker, Masanobu Miyake, 25, approached the woman in her 20s and subdued her with a stun gun around midnight. She was the only customer in the restaurant at the time.