KANAGAWA (TR) – In a look back to what it was delivering to its readers years ago, the site for weekly tabloid Friday presents the grisly tale of a female dental assistant who decapitated her live-in boyfriend.
The way Friday tells it, Miki Aida, then 26, was moonlighting as a kyabakura club hostess in 2006 when she killed 29-year-old company employee Takuya Sakuramoto at the apartment in the town of Oiso.
Aida was eventually sentenced to 13 years in prison for the crime, which she was able to calmly conceal for days after she carried it out.
As if nothing happened
According to court details, Aida thrust a kitchen knife into Sakuramoto’s neck while he slept early on May 1, 2006. When he awoke and tried to sit up, she stabbed him several more times in the neck and back.
Between May 7 and May 10, she severed his head with the intention of dismembering the rest of the corpse to hide it. However, police discovered the mutilated body on May 11 before she could finish the job.
Despite the gruesome scene in her apartment, Aida carried on as if nothing had happened. Following the murder, she continued sending promotional emails to regular clients at the Atsugi City cabaret club.
A male acquaintance of Aida told Friday, “At the beginning of May, I went drinking with her and two or three other men and women. She was talking a lot and seemed to be having fun.”
Remarkably, Aida even calmly attended to patients at her dental clinic on the very morning Ishikawa’s headless body was discovered. She fled that afternoon but was apprehended two days later near JR Chigasaki Station.
Met at her hostess club
The couple had met at the hostess club where Aida worked nights about two days a week. They started living together about a year later.
According to her colleagues at the club, she was “slender and looked good in dresses, and had a decent number of regular customers.” She worked as a dental assistant during the day.
Aida told investigators that she was driven to murder over severe financial and domestic issues. She had racked up approximately 3 million yen in consumer debt to cover their living expenses because Sakuramoto refused to contribute. When she complained, he allegedly subjected her to physical abuse.
Affair
Tensions had further escalated in the months leading up to the murder after Aida began an affair with a younger club customer, leading to frequent violent quarrels that once resulted in broken windows and a police visit.
Concluding that a normal breakup would be impossible, Aida decided to kill Sakuramoto and purchased the murder weapon two weeks in advance.
At the opening of her trial at the Odawara Branch of the Yokohama District Court on July 28, Aida admitted to the charges. In March 2007, the judge handed her a 13-year prison term, condemning the premeditated killing as a “cold-blooded, brutal and inhumane crime.”
