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Bunshun Online has reported allegations of “assault” against Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks’ 2025 first-round draft pick, pitcher Taito Murakami, involving a former girlfriend. According to the report, the two are said to have broken up on July 3rd, and the very next day, July 4th, Murakami allegedly entered the woman’s home using a spare key and threatened her new boyfriend, who was present, by brandishing a knife. The woman reportedly filed a report with the police. On 5ch, the thread mixed legal debate over which charges might apply — breaking and entering, assault, intimidation — with pointed questions about inconsistencies in the timeline, given the reported breakup date and the sudden appearance of a new boyfriend.
“I’ll make sure you can’t walk!” SoftBank’s Taito Murakami and the “assault incident” against his ex-girlfriend 〈Woman files police report〉
9/2 (Wed) 16:12 published
Bunshun Online
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Or maybe arrested before that — he's still so young
Stuff like this is exactly why people start saying we should ban terms like 'dead ball' (hit-by-pitch) and 'putout' (literally 'stab to death') in baseball
What kind of upbringing produces someone like this…
Will he actually get arrested? Do your job, police
he's definitely getting his registration revoked
https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1788326206/
Or is this just lovers'-quarrel-level stuff too weak to actually get charged?
'Felt'?
So doesn't that mean it wasn't actually completely over at that point?
Are you guys even reading the article?
Police treat him as a minor, but Bunshun treats athletes like celebrities, so they print his name
This guy's clearly getting off on it while he's yelling
Guys who committed repeated child molestation cases still made comebacks
Leaking pitching schedules to the yakuza only got a short suspension
Gambling scandals? Comeback too
If he's a first-round pick, he'll probably get off with a verbal warning and an indefinite suspension, that'll be it
If Murakami still had the spare key
then from his point of view
he might not have thought they'd actually broken up
and snapped because he thought Ms. A was cheating on him
Even a total legal amateur can count four separate charges here
If he still had the key and genuinely believed the relationship was ongoing, it wouldn't count as trespassing
And without a doctor's diagnosis, it won't be assault with injury — just assault (violence) and intimidation
July 4: assault incident with her new boyfriend?
She's pretty wild herself, honestly
Though violence obviously isn't okay
And on top of that, it says
'I felt like it was truly over'
so the
'July 3: breakup'
is just Ms. A's subjective take
What's this guy even talking about, just flat-out assuming Bunshun = fake news?
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Japan lowered the legal age of adulthood under civil law to 18 in 2022, but the Juvenile Act still defines a “minor” as anyone under 20 — meaning 19-year-old Murakami could be treated as a minor for investigative purposes, even though weekly magazines customarily report on professional baseball players by name, treating them as public figures. The thread split over two points: the legal question of whether entering with a spare key still in one’s possession counts as trespassing, and whether, absent a doctor’s diagnosis, this remains a simple-assault charge rather than assault causing injury; plus the timeline consistency between the reported July 3rd breakup and an incident the very next day. It’s worth noting that, as of now, no arrest or referral to prosecutors has been confirmed — the case is still only at the stage of a filed police report — and that everything reported about the people involved comes solely from Bunshun Online’s own reporting, i.e., one side of the story.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Bunshun] “I’ll make sure you can’t walk!” SoftBank’s Taito Murakami — “assault incident” against ex-girlfriend, woman files police report.”
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