79-year-old man arrested for disposal of brother's corpse
News On Japan via Japan Today -- Aug 29
Police said Tuesday they have arrested a 79-year-old man over the unauthorized disposal of his brother's corpse in Gunma Prefecture.
According to police, the body of a 71-year-old Nagano man was discovered in a mountain forest in Tsumagoi on Aug 22. The man's brother, with whom he lived, was questioned by police and told investigators that he didn't have enough money for a funeral ceremony, so he dumped his brother's body in the forest, TBS reported.
Police said the dead man had been ill and bedridden since early August before passing away on Aug 21.
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 )