OSAKA (Kyodo) Police have served another arrest warrant for a 36-year-old man already on trial for a similar rape earlier this year.

Takamitsu Uezono, a demolition worker from Shiga Prefecture, has admitted to raping a woman aboard a train last August, police said Sunday.

Police linked Uezono to the August rape through their investigation of a similar incident on a train this January in Shiga. Uezono is currently standing trial for the January rape.

Although there were other passengers onboard at the time of the crime last August, none tried to stop it or report it to the conductor as Uezono threatened them, the Osaka police said.

According to investigators, Uezono raped a 21-year-old woman aboard a Thunderbird express train bound for Osaka from Toyama on the JR Hokuriku Line the night of Aug. 3.

Uezono reportedly sat next to the victim after the train left Fukui, and told her, "Don't raise your voice or I'll kill you."

After making further intimidating remarks such as "If you report me to the police, I'll stalk you," he forcibly took her to a rest room and raped her, the investigators said.

I have no doubt that this man is from the hell. Nobody will forgive him.  But what made me shocked is there were about 40 passangers in this train and notice he were about to commit the crime, nobody tried to stop him. I know it most have been charanging thing to fight him, but I wonder why they never called police or a conductor. I believe most of people have cellphones. There were 40 people, if all of them atack him, they would win and could save her! I really feel sympathy with the victim because I'm afraid that  I am one of the women who might be a victim in the future, who knows? Or if my family or friends become one of them, how I will be hurt?