Overview

• Tokyo police said a judicial autopsy found a 76-year-old Machida woman died from blood loss after more than 10 stab wounds, and the 40-year-old suspect was sent to the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of murder and a weapons violation.
• The Machida victim’s daughter described witnessing the repeated stabbing on an exterior stairway, while the suspect’s parents apologized in interviews as police cited his statements about wanting to kill anyone and feeling he had been treated coldly.
• Gifu Prefectural Police re-arrested Koji Tachibana, 55, and Miki Kambara, 35, on suspicion of abandoning the body of Kaori Nomura, 33, whose skeletal remains were found in Ibigawa, and set up an 80-officer special unit as they consider a potential murder case.
• In Higashiosaka, an autopsy concluded 33-year-old Arisa Sato died of exsanguination after dozens of stab and cut wounds, and suspect Hirofumi Nagahisa, 51, who told police his emotions “exploded,” was sent to prosecutors on a murder charge.
• The Otsu District Court sentenced former professional shogi player Takayuki Hashimoto, 42, to five years in prison for attempted murder and unlawful entry, while Chiba police arrested a 63-year-old woman accused of leaving her brother’s body at home, which she denies intending, citing funeral costs.