http://archive.japantoday.com/jp Top Japan news headlines from Japan Today en-us editor@japantoday.com support@japantoday.com Newspapers 2008 GPlusMedia KK The Saitama District Court on Friday sentenced a 62-year-old man to life imprisonment for robbing and murdering a couple with whom he was acquainted in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture, in February 2007. Judge Yoshinobu Iida branded the crime by Minoru Iwamori as "selfish" but the court did not hand down t http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431770 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431770 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:00:00 +0900 Police on Tuesday said a man found dead in his apartment in Nerima Ward on Monday had been strangled. Yusho Furutani, 24, was found dead by his boss, 36, in his apartment around 7 p.m. on Monday after he didn't show up for work that day. According to police investigations, the victim seems to hav http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431565 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431565 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:22:00 +0900 Police on Monday decided to indict the 33-year-old female director of a kindergarten in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, over the death of a 18-month-old boy in 2005. Prosecutors said the former director will be charged with manslaughter in the death of the boy who drowned in a water basin. Ac http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431427 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431427 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:41:00 +0900 Police on Sunday arrested a man for strangling his wife inside a car in Yokkaichi City, after arguing over their divorce. The suspect took his wife to hospital but she died about one hour later. Toru Ueda, 20, was arrested for allegedly strangling his wife, Aya, 18, around 2 a.m. According to pol http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431315 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431315 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:18:00 +0900 Three foreign men robbed a taxi driver in Okinawa early Monday morning. The taxi driver, 55, suffered slight head injuries, police said, adding they suspect the trio were U.S. military personnel and have asked U.S. authorities for cooperation. According to police, the three men hailed the taxi ar http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431316 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431316 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:16:00 +0900 Two women were found dead at their house in Sapporo on Sunday afternoon, in what police believe was a murder-suicide. Hanee Mayama, 84, was found by her son-in-law Mitsuru Akiba, 61, on her bed on the first floor of the house around 3:50 p.m. Police say she had been strangled. Akiba's wife Nori, http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431317 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431317 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:08:00 +0900 Police on Thursday released a new wanted poster of Tatsuya Ichihashi, 29, who is the prime suspect in the murder of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, one year ago. The new poster features simulated faces of the suspect if he were to be disguised as a woman, for example, or if he changed his ha http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431056 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431056 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:53:00 +0900 Police on Thursday arrested a man for assaulting his mother with an ax at her apartment in Meguro. The victim was taken to hospital, suffering severe injuries to her right shoulder and arm. Makoto Ueda, 34, was arrested for attacking his mother, 64, with a 40-centimeter-long ax around 10:20 a.m. Aft http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431055 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/431055 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:41:00 +0900 Police said Thursday that two schoolgirls had been attacked by a man who cut their hair with a knife in Nagoya on Wednesday. According to police, one of the victims, 16, was suddenly assaulted by a man and had her hair cut while she was walking through a park on her way to school around 7:20 a.m. Th http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430930 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430930 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:59:00 +0900 Military police at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) base in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, said Thursday that 20 million yen was stolen from an ATM in a communal area and a safe in an office sometime on Wednesday night. The ATM and the safe are installed on the second floor of the welfare http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430927 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430927 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:18:00 +0900 Police on Wednesday arrested a student at Konan University and his girlfriend on suspicion of setting up a male passenger with a false groping claim on the subway in February. Police allege that Fumiyuki Makita, 24, and his 31-year-old girlfriend conspired to frame a passenger on the Midosuji subway http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430926 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430926 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:54:00 +0900 Police on Wednesday arrested a man for hitting a 20-year-old vocational student with his car on the street in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, and then leaving the scene. The victim was taken to hospital with a broken back. Nobutoshi Nozawa, 21, was arrested for allegedly hitting the victim just http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430813 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430813 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:30:00 +0900 Police on Wednesday arrested a man for assaulting a woman with a knife on the street in Midori Ward, Saitama Prefecture. The victim was stabbed in the chest and had her ribs broken trying to ward off her attacker. Takuya Soga, 25, was arrested for allegedly assaulting the female college student, http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430812 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430812 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:00 +0900 Police on Sunday arrested a woman for allegedly strangling her 9-year-old son at home in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. Kimie Haba, 40, was arrested for allegedly killing her son, Kensuke, by strangling him with a plastic cord in his room on the second floor of their house on Saturday night. Ac http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430574 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430574 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:37:00 +0900 Saitama police on Sunday searched the office of a high school principal and confiscated two computers after he was arrested for allegedly sending threatening messages by email to a former student. The suspect, Kazuo Ichikawa, 56, principal of Kawaguchi High School, was arrested during Saturday's gra http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430544 http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430544 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:44:00 +0900