2026/5/17 14:33 (updated at 5/17 15:42) Please agree to our privacy policy to enable the news listening function. A robbery and murder occurred at a residential house in Kamimikawa Town, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan on the 14th. The police were on guard at the scene on the morning of the 17th. (Kyodo News) (Central News Agency, Tokyo, comprehensive foreign news report on the 17th) Several gangsters broke into a house in Kamimikawa Town, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan earlier this month, and killed three people, a mother and a child, and injured two others. Four teenagers were suspected of being abetted to commit the crime and have been arrested. Police arrested a man suspected of being the instigator of the case at Haneda Airport today. On the morning of the 14th of this month, a number of criminals invaded a house in Kamimikawa Town and searched for property. While they were committing the crime, a 69-year-old woman, Eiko Toyama, was attacked with a knife and stabbed to death in the chest and other parts of her body. Toyama’s eldest son and second son were working outside the house at the time, and they were also attacked and injured after they rushed home. Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) reported that four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of committing robbery and murder. They are all 16 years old and several of them are high school students. The police believe that these four teenagers were instigated by others, so the police are currently investigating the case in the direction of the “Anonymous Mobile Criminal Group” (“Anonymous Mobile Criminal Group”), and are still investigating whether there are other instigators behind the scenes. The police then arrested a 28-year-old man living in Kanagawa Prefecture at Haneda Airport this morning on suspicion of robbery and homicide. This also brings the number of arrests in this case to 5. The Mainichi Shimbun reported that the Tochigi Prefecture Shimono Police Station Search Headquarters determined that the male suspect was trying to escape and therefore appeared at Haneda Airport. Japan’s Fuji News Network (FNN) reported that the male suspect was trying to leave the country from the international terminal of Haneda Airport when he was arrested. In addition, the police said that among the four teenagers arrested, some confessed that “some of them were people they met for the first time”, while others denied committing the crime. (Compiled by: Yang Weijing) 1150517 supports the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of support to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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