THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 31, 2021 at 17:45 JST
Izumi Komori, suspected of abandonment of a body, arrives at Mukojima Police Station in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward at 10:28 a.m. on Aug. 31. (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
A Tokyo high school girl who went missing Aug. 28 was found dead on a remote property in central Japan with stab wounds to her back, police in the capital said Aug. 31. There were indications she had been strangled with a rope. [Read More]
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