An unemployed man (51) was arrested by Yamato police in Kanagawa Prefecture on June 14th for not complying to the store’s request to leave.
Arrested at 7:30 p.m., the store manager (41) asked the man to leave the consumer electronic retail store but the man sat in a chair in the TV section that evening to watch a professional baseball broadcast for several days.
The store manager reported that they presented the man with a warning if he continued and the man continued to sit in the chair and watch baseball.
The arrested man told police, “I watched baseball at the store because I don’t own a television”.