The media are both Kenichi Ino's worst enemy and strongest ally.
After his 21-year-old daughter was killed in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, in 1999 in a notorious stalking case, Ino's house was surrounded by 60 to 70 reporters from early morning to midnight, chasing his comments on her murder.
"I could not honor my daughter and my sons could not go to school while we were put under 'house arrest' by the media for almost three months," he said. "Given such circumstances, our family life was on the verge of collapse."