The guy was already being looked in to by the police. He was held at one point too for questioning. But, since he had never done anything violent up to that point, they sadly couldn’t hold him. Also, stalkers are both genders. More women will get away with it too.

So what do you think the company should do instead?

No offense, but that’s a problem everywhere, not just Japan. It’s just as bad in the U. S.. If anything, in Japan, they handle the problem better than some other countries. I commemorate what they’re doing and wish the U.S. would do similar.

Stalking is common globally, for people of all genders, the scary thing is that Japan already has better laws criminalizing stalking in comparison to a lot of the world and that incidents like this still end up occuring. I think the bigger issue that on a global cultural and societal scale that far too many people don’t treat stalking as a serious threat and that means regardless of what laws a country may have on the books, if individual people and law enforcement don’t consider it a serious threat or crime then it won’t be treated with the urgency that it needs to be.

That said, I also commend the Pokemon company for doing this because it’s a way to acknowledge her death, their failure in protecting their employees, customers and visitors, and that there is probably a lot of people who are now affected by what they witnessed that day and that other people are probably weary of attending events at Pokemon Centers.

The guy had been stalking her for months. The employee had reported it to the police multiple times and they ignored her. It’s a common problem in Japan.

The pokemon company cannot do anything to force government or community change besides altering business practices. By canceling major tourist events and closing major tourist attractions they out pressure on the economy- and through that society and the government

My guy, they are. That’s what the city’s doing as a whole. This is an article explaining what the Pokémon company is doing. They can’t change judicial procedures or make city wide crackdowns, they’re a freaking entertainment company. It’s a sin what happened, but don’t hold a company accountable for a systemic problem.