transcript: For more than 120 years, Waseda University
has been a place of higher learning, a finishing school for Japan's elite.It's produced six
prime ministers, hundreds of company presidents, but now Waseda has also produced a scandal
that has shocked Japan and terrified the university's female students.
Dozens of Waseda students, some seen here, formed a social club called 'Super Free',
an organisation that revolved around meticulously planning and regularly executing gang rape. I wasn't surprised.
I think these things occur very often. It's just that many people are not aware of it
because the victim don't report. Super Free would organise massive parties.
Glossy brochures encouraged young women to come along. The flyers targeted students
from smaller out-of-town universities, urging them to meet men from an elite one. Ryuichi Daigo has been investigating the rape
club story since it broke, and what he's discovered is shocking. Because those girls longed for the city life,
they were willing to believe anything. They thought skolling drinks was the Tokyo style.
It's come out in court that some of the women actually consented to be gang raped. They
voluntarily submitted their bodies. Some later became girlfriends of Super Free members. The
ABC has obtained extraordinary video footage
that shows what happened after the parties began. The women outnumber the men 20 to 1. Proceedings
are carefully orchestrated. Some of the techniques are similar to those used by cults. The charismatic
Super Free members certainly behave like gods, whipping the crowd into a frenzy. It's often said that Japanese people cannot
do anything alone but, instead, have a group mentality. This is an extreme example
of that. The parties are like some kind of cult or new religion. The rape club made huge profits, which were
distributed to the members. It had a pyramid structure and this was the man at the top
- Shinichiro Wada, the alleged mastermind. Super Free's dream campus is hot and terrific
- it's true! After the party had been going for a few hours,
selected women would be invited to a separate VIP function at a nearby restaurant. The aim
here was to get the potential victims as drunk as possible. They would play drinking games that were rigged
to ensure the girl had to skull. The drinks would be spiked with a type of vodka that's
96 per cent alcohol, but tasteless and odourless. Wada once said that whoever invented the drink
would be given a Nobel Prize. As the women got drunk, one would be chosen
and taken to a toilet. Members of Super Free would stand in line to rape her. Often, one club member would take a photo
to embarrass the student into staying silent, while another would be given the task of stopping
her from going to the police. The member who was particularly good at calming
down women was Mr Kishimoto, the number two man in the club. He was called 'Kisi The Bomb
De-fuser'. Altogether, about 100 women were raped. Around 50 men were involved. Some of
the men prosecuted have said they only raped once or twice. One said he did it 15 times. 14 men have been put on trial. The Tokyo District
Court found one of the club members guilty of helping arrange the gang rape of a 20-year-old. Toshiyuki Numazaki was sentenced to two years
and 10 months in jail. Kyoko Ogura is a lawyer who has represented
scores of rape victims.Our law says protection of personal property is more important
than protection of women's sexual freedom. I think it's absurd. A growing number of people want the law changed.
These men and women are all students of Waseda, members of a very different organisation to
Super Free -- the Gender Studies Club. As far as they're concerned, the rape scandal
is not just about a few men behaving very badly, but reflects the way women are treated
and depicted. Since the old days, Japanese men have had
a traditional role. If he dominates women, he's regarded as a real man. The Super Free
case is the tip of the iceberg. Indecent Manga comics and adult videos are
influencing sex crimes. There is very little sex education in Japanese schools, so people
get a lot of information from popular culture. It dulls their awareness of what constitutes
a crime. Around 1.5 billion Manga comics are sold each
year. Many are sexually explicit. Quite a few feature heroes who have forced sex with
women. This movie, 'Rapeman', is based on a comic created in the '90s that's still popular
today.Keisuke Uasake is a schoolteacher by day, Japanese superhero by night. He rapes
women who have wronged, broken up with boyfriends, or swindled someone out of money. Often the
woman ends up falling in love with the Rapeman. She's certainly not presented as a victim. I'm not giving you any sympathy. You can't
go on as a woman if you get discouraged by this sort of thing. Ever since we were defeated in World War II,
Japanese men have not been able to recover. They have got weaker, while women have become
stronger. Men have developed an inferiority complex. That's why they like to read 'Rapeman'. Other members of Super Free are yet to receive
a verdict, including the alleged ringleader. Their cases will only further the debate about
Japan's treatment of women, rape and sexuality.
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