Suspect in Y600 mil robbery extradited from Cambodia
News On Japan via Japan Today -- Sep 28
A Japanese national, wanted in connection with a 600 million yen robbery in Tokyo last year, was extradited from Cambodia to Japan on Friday.
The National Police Agency (NPA) said that the suspect, who has been named as 45-year-old Kenji Nishizawa, is believed to have been part of a gang that stole 600 million yen in cash from a Tokyo security firm in May 2011. So far, police have arrested more than 20 in connection with the case.
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 )