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On July 26, 2014, 15-year-old Japanese high school student Aiwa Matsuo (松尾 愛和, Matsuo Aiwa) was murdered by a 15-year-old female classmate. The killing took place in the suspect's apartment in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, where Matsuo was beaten with a metal tool, strangled to death, and then partially dismembered and decapitated.
The Kobe child murders (Japanese: 神戸連続児童殺傷事件, Hepburn: Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) occurred in Suma, Kobe, Japan, on March 16 and May 27, 1997.. Two victims, Ayaka Yamashita (山下 彩花, Yamashita Ayaka), aged 10, and Jun Hase (土師 淳, Hase Jun), aged 11, were murdered by a 14-year-old boy reportedly named Shinichiro Azuma (東 真一郎, Azuma Shin'ichirō ...
Yoshihide Suga, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time, acknowledged that the attack was "a very heart-wrenching and shocking incident in which many innocent people became victims". [ 3 ] [ 7 ] He also said that the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare would investigate ways to prevent a similar incident from occurring again.
Furuta was born on 18 January 1971 and grew up in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, where she lived with her parents, older brother, and younger brother. [4] At the time of her murder, she was a 17-year-old senior at Yashio-Minami High School, and worked a part-time job at a plastic molding factory from October 1988 to save up money for a planned graduation trip. [1]
Miwa Sado, a 31-year-old politics reporter for public broadcasting organization NHK, was reportedly found dead in her bed clutching her mobile phone.
In 2011, she starred in Fuji TV's web drama Secret Girls, featuring a group of middle school girls who lead a double life as members of an in-show Japanese idol girl group of the same name. [18] [11] Tomita was cast as Ai "Eye" Takano and performed as the character along with the rest of Secret Girls at music events.
Election news coverage can get a little mundane at times, but one woman's bold move gave a reporter's story a whole new level of spice. SEE ALSO: 'Meanest mom ever' teaches her kids a hard lesson ...
Shūkan Bunshun was first published in April 1959. [4] The magazine is part of Bungeishunjū, a publishing group headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. [4] From October 2014 to September 2015 Shūkan Bunshun was the fourth best selling weekly magazine in Japan with a circulation of 680,296 copies. [5]