Police served arrest warrants on two men and arrested a third over a 14-year-old murder case on Aug. 3, it has been learned.
Yoshitomo Hori, 37, 36-year-old Hiroshi Sato and 43-year-old Teruo Hayama stand accused of robbing and killing Ichio Magori, 45, and his 36-year-old wife Satomi in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture, in 1998. Hori is already serving a life sentence for a 2007 robbery and murder, while Sato is serving time for a separate crime, and both were issued new arrest warrants.
A 24-year-old woman was in a serious condition Friday after being stabbed by a man whom she reported to police for stalking her in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. (Japan Today )
China's television regulator has ordered a crackdown on dramas about the country's battles with Japan during and before World War Two and demanded they be more serious, state media said on Friday, following viewer complaints about ludicrous storylines. (Reuters )
Police said Friday they have found four dead bodies in an apartment in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, in what is believed to have been a family murder-suicide. (Japan Today )
Shukan Post (May 24) conveys the difficulties experienced by other parts of the adult-entertainment biz in servicing customers from the communist nation.
A deri heru (“delivery health”) call-girl tells the tabloid that she is often requested to arrive at major hotels in the Shinjuku and Ikebukuro entertainment areas of Tokyo by Chinese visitors. (Tokyo Reporter)
Six sailors were found dead after a fire on a foreign freighter docked at a port in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
The sailors are presumed to be Russians. (NHK )