Overview
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested deputy superintendent Daisuke Jimbo on suspicion of leaking investigative camera images to the sex-industry scouting group “Natural,” with about ¥9 million previously seized from associates now under scrutiny.
- Police announced the arrest of Yoshinari Kaihatsu, a former gang member who posed as a monk, on suspicion of selling a revolver and compatible rounds; the weapon was identified as a homemade gun with confirmed lethality.
- Investigators traced the firearm case to a March discovery of a revolver and ammunition in a Yamanashi warehouse tied to a separate suspect already indicted, as police note nine handgun seizures from gang affiliates this year through October.
- In a separate case, three men including Shogo Umeda and Seiya Kumazaki were arrested on suspicion of confining a 48-year-old man in June before his body was later found buried in Ibaraki, with detectives citing a threatening phone call as part of the evidence.
- Hyogo Prefectural Police filed additional allegations against Masashi Tanimoto under the anti-stalking law and for unlawful entry related to a Kobe elevator killing, while China issued a Defense Ministry warning over Taiwan and a Foreign Ministry advisory urging Chinese nationals to avoid travel to Japan.