Overview

• Ikoriyama’s jury trial opened for Ikeda Reihei, who is charged with dangerous driving causing death and drunk driving, as he denied intentionally running a red light before fatally striking a teenage examinee in January.
• In Tokyo’s Setagaya case, police say suspect Park Yeong-jun arrived on a short stay about 10 days earlier and remains silent, with new details indicating a knife purchase the day before and prior police guidance after the victim reported violence.
• Saitama prefectural police arrested former caregiver Shigeru Yamanaka on suspicion of assault causing death, and he admitted rough handling during a position change before an 80-year-old resident later died of acute subdural hematoma.
• In Nagoya, defendant Yuya Hadano admitted charges tied to a planned “beauty-trap” extortion scheme, prosecutors sought a three-year confinement term, and the court set September 26 for the verdict as a co-defendant faces robbery resulting in death.
• In Ito City, the council’s chair and vice chair filed a criminal complaint alleging Mayor Makiko Takubo used a forged Toyo University diploma, saying all council members backed the filing.