The incident has highlighted a trend of cross-border theft involving some members of Japan’s trainee visa programme, who send quality Japanese items back to Vietnam for profit.
Police are confirming whether a man who died in a hospital near Tokyo is indeed Satoshi Kirishima, who was allegedly responsible for a series of deadly bombings in the 1970s.
Japan traditionally has a low level of crime but analysts say persistent inflation, stagnant wages mean supermarkets will have to counter rising shoplifting.
Correctional officers at Nagoya Prison singled out three inmates to repeatedly abuse over the course of nearly a year by spraying their faces with sanitizer used to prevent COVID-19 infections, slapping them and physically inflicting pain in other ways, the Justice Ministry said.