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Yomiuri Shimbun
18-05-2025
- Yomiuri Shimbun
A Chinese Man Arrested in Connection with Hit-and-Run in Misato, Saitama Prefecture
The Yomiuri Shimbun Police officers inspect the site near where a car ran into a line of elementary school students in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday. SAITAMA — Saitama prefectural police arrested a man on Sunday after four elementary school students were injured in Wednesday's hit-and-run in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. According to police, he turned himself in to the Yoshikawa Police Station in Sunday's morning. The police said the man is a 42-year-old Chinese national. He allegedly ran into a line of elementary schoolers at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday while driving a car. He left the scene despite leaving four boys with injuries
Yomiuri Shimbun
08-05-2025
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Man Arrested after 2 Injured in Knife Attack at Todaimae Station; Victims' Injuries Are Not Life-Threatening
The Yomiuri Shimbun Police officials gather inside Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday evening. A 43-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, which left two people injured. Yoshitaka Toda, 43, whose address and occupation are unknown, boarded a train at about 6:55 p.m. on Wednesday and suddenly brandished a knife, slashing at a 20-year-old male university student while the train was stopped at the station, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. After being subdued by surrounding passengers, Toda was arrested at the scene by a police officer who was present. The man Toda attacked was taken to a hospital with a head wound. A Nepalese man, 34, who aided in restraining the attacker, sustained an injury to his finger that is expected to take a month to fully heal, the police said. They added that neither injured individual suffered life-threatening wounds. Toda has reportedly refused to respond to police questioning, but he is not believed to have had any prior connection to the victims, and the police are thoroughly investigating the circumstances of the incident. A kitchen knife with a roughly 20-centimeter blade was collected from the station platform. The piercing scream of alarm bells resounded across the platform as passengers fled the train, causing a chaotic scene. An eyewitness recounted seeing the man whose head was injured sitting on the platform, his hand pressed to his bloodied temple and ear, with bloodstains spreading out around him. A 14-year-old junior high school student from Chiba on the train said with a trembling voice, 'I can't believe an incident like this happened on the train I take to school.'
Yomiuri Shimbun
04-05-2025
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Man Arrested over Body Found in Bag in Eastern Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun Police officers search the home where a body was found in Kawasaki on Friday. YOKOHAMA (Jiji Press) — Japanese police on Saturday arrested a man, 27, for allegedly abandoning a body that was found in a bag in his house in the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The body was identified as that of Asahi Okazaki, a 20-year-old part-timer and Kawasaki resident, who was once a girlfriend of the suspect, Hideyuki Shirai, according to the Kanagawa prefectural police department. Shirai admitted to the allegations in police questioning and said he was once in a dating relationship with Okazaki. The Kanagawa police will continue their investigations into the case, suspecting that Shirai knows about circumstances surrounding the death of the woman. Okazaki's body was found under the floor of the suspect's house, according to investigative sources. The prefectural police department suspects that the man hid the body to prevent it from being found. As part of the investigations, the police plan to ask relatives of Shirai who were living with the suspect. Shirai allegedly abandoned Okazaki's body in his house sometime between Dec. 20 and 30 last year. According to the sources, Shirai traveled abroad early last month. When he arrived back at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday, investigators from the Kanagawa prefectural police department asked him to come voluntarily for questioning. Kanagawa police officers found the body in the bag when they searched the man's house Wednesday on suspicion of violating the stalking regulation law. Part of the body had been skeletonized. An autopsy found that the body had signs of being burned and that more than a month has passed since the death. The cause of death remains unknown. According to Okazaki's relatives and others, she went missing on Dec. 20 last year. Before that, Okazaki often consulted people around her and police, complaining that she had been harassed and stalked by Shirai. On Dec. 23, Okazaki's father reported to police that his daughter went unaccounted for. On Saturday, the 51-year-old father visited a police station in Kawasaki with dozens of others including relatives and lodged a protest, claiming that the prefectural police department's investigations were inappropriate. According to the father, a glass window at the house of Okazaki's grandmother where the victim was taking shelter from stalking by the suspect was broken on Dec. 22 last year, but the police said that no foul play was suspected. 'They didn't take any photos or fingerprints. They just left the scene without doing anything,' he complained. The father also said that even after he reported his daughter's disappearance and submitted a victim report, the police continued to claim that her case did not appear to be a criminal incident. Meanwhile, an official at the Kanagawa police department said, 'We recognize the seriousness of the incident and will work to identify any issues for which improvements should have been made.' Since Okazaki went missing on Dec. 20, the prefectural police questioned Shirai on a voluntary basis seven times by late March this year. Police officers also visited Shirai's house. But his relatives did not allow officers to check the situation under the floor where Okazaki's body was discovered, saying that they were in the middle of a meal.
