15. A Hot and Heavy Japanese Affair
Japanese restaurateur and businessman Kichizo Ishida (1894 – 1936) started off as an apprentice in a restaurant that specialized in eel dishes. At age twenty four, he opened what would become a highly successful restaurant, the Yoshidaya, in the Nakano neighborhood of Tokyo. He had a reputation as a ladies’ man, and by 1936, he seems to have left the management of his other business affairs to his wife, and dedicated himself to the pursuit of women. Early in 1936, he began a torrid love affair with a recently hired employee, Sada Abe, that ended badly. Sada Abe (1905 – 1971) had been a Geisha and former prostitute before she got a job as an apprentice at Ishida’s restaurant. It did not take long after she started work before her boss made advances, which she eagerly welcomed.
The duo became infatuated with each other, and spent days engaged in intercourse marathon sessions at hotels. They did not pause even when maids came in to clean the rooms. Sada’s infatuation however grew into obsession. She grew jealous whenever Ishida returned to his wife, and began to toy with the idea of murder as a means to keep him forever to herself. She bought a knife and threatened him with it at their next marathon nooky session. Ishida assumed it was role play, and was turned on rather than concerned. That threw Sada off. Later in the marathon session, she again steeled herself to kill him. This time, she tried to strangle him with a Geisha belt as they did the deed. That only turned him on even more, and he begged her to continue, which again threw her off.
