Those Sick Japaneses Part 15: Prolific Fetishists

Osaka Man Maeyasu Kawamura, 60, broke the previous record set by his fellow national Shigeo Kodama who stole 4,400 pieces of lingerie which included 3,977 underpants, 355 bras and 10 pairs of stockings over a six-year period starting from 2001.

Maeyasu Kawamura, was indicted for theft by police in Osaka prefecture, western Japan. Police found more than 8,200 pieces of women’s clothing and lingerie including 2,400 pieces of lingerie, 600 kimonos and 5,200 items of other clothing all piled up high in his small apartment room.

Kawamura has confessed to stealing the items, which included a wedding dress. “He seemed to get a thrill out of sleeping covered in women’s clothes,” a police spokesman said. “He seemed to like the smell.”

The suspect admitted that he had stolen a massive amount of women’s clothes. “Over the past decade I’ve randomly stolen women’s clothes and underwear,” he was quoted as saying during questioning.

But they are not alone; a 27-year-old man, accused by police in Waukesha, Wis., (1,500 pairs of teenage girls’ shoes); Chih Hsien Wu, 43, charged in Fort Collins, Colo., (1,300 undergarments belonging to Colorado State University women); Garth Flaherty, 24, charged in Pullman, Wash., (1,500 women’s undergarments, weighing 93 pounds); Kevin Parrett, 51, sentenced in Faulkton, S.D., (800 women’s undergarments); Dan Trompke, 37, sentenced in Kearney, Neb., (more than 500 women’s undergarments) and the list goes on.