Wakayama prefectural police on April 28 arrested a 25-year-old woman on suspicion of murdering her much older wealthy husband who had described himself as the “Don Juan of Kishu” for his sexual escapades.
Police accused the suspect, Saki Sudo, who lives in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, of killing Kosuke Nozaki, 77, by force-feeding him stimulant drugs three years ago.
Sudo had said she found Nozaki unconscious on the second floor of his home in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, on the evening of May 24, 2018. A female housekeeper applied cardiac massage, but Nozaki was later pronounced dead.
An autopsy revealed a lethal dose of ingredients from a stimulant drug in Nozaki’s blood and stomach, leading police to conclude he died from acute poisoning of a stimulant drug.
Japan s Suga comes to US for China-focused talks with Biden
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MARI YAMAGUCHI and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
April 15, 2021
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1of8Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, April 15, 2021. Suga will be the first foreign leader to have a face-to-face meeting with President Joe Biden, when they meet at the White House on Friday.Manuel Balce Ceneta/APShow MoreShow Less
2of8Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga leaves the prime minister s official residence for the airport, in Tokyo Thursday, April 15, 2021. Suga headed to Washington on Thursday to become a first foreign leader to have a face-to-face meeting with President Joe Biden for talks that would reaffirm the strength of their alliance and how to deal with China s growing assertiveness and challenge to democratic values. (Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP)Sadayuki Goto/APShow MoreShow Less
China has sharply reduced the number of directly elected seats in Hong Kong’s legislature in a setback for democracy in the semi-autonomous city.
Japan has taken a milder approach to reports of Chinese human rights violations and has not joined the United States and European nations in imposing sanctions. Gen Nakatani, a ruling party lawmaker and former defense minister, is leading a nonpartisan parliamentary group calling for Suga’s government to take tougher steps, including sanctions, to be in line with Western democracies, but a decision has not been made.
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Japan considers China’s growing military activity in the region and its broad territorial claims to be a security threat. Japan is locked in dispute with China over Beijing’s claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrived in Washington on Thursday for talks with U.S. President Joe Biden meant to show the strength of the two nations security alliance at a time when both are concerned with China s growing economic and military clout. Friday s talks will be Biden s first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader since he took office, and they follow four years of uncertainty for the Japan-U.S. alliance under former President Donald Trump s administration. Japan s Foreign Ministry said Suga hopes to reaffirm the alliance s strong bond and discuss a multinational effort to defend democratic values and counter China s growing global influence and disputed territorial claims.