Overview

• Saitama Prefectural Police searched the apartment of former Aum leader Matsumoto Chizuo’s wife in April and uncovered tens of millions of yen in cash, triggering a probe into potential violations of Japan’s anti-subversion laws.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Investigation Division arrested seven suspects, including Ooshiro Yuto, on charges of holding a business partner captive for three months and inflicting injuries that required six months to heal.
• Kochi Prefectural Police re-arrested elementary school teacher Mitsuharu Shimazaki on suspicion of non-consensual indecent acts and secret filming of underage students, part of a broader crackdown on educator voyeurism.
• Hokkaido Prefectural Police detained a Sapporo couple, Daiki and Rio Ogasawara, for allegedly abandoning their three young children at home for over six hours in high temperatures, highlighting rising enforcement against child neglect.
• The Otsu District Court found that Shiga Prefectural Police failed to forward key investigation materials in the 2003 hospital death case of Nishiyama Mika and ordered the prefecture to pay approximately ¥31 million in compensation.