Editorial

15:38 JST, November 12, 2025

It is impossible to tell what might lead to a suspect’s arrest in a case. The hope is that police will analyze again the evidence and information that have already been gathered to find clues that will lead to the resolution of a case.

In the murder incident in which housewife Namiko Takaba was killed in an apartment in Nagoya in November 1999, the Aichi prefectural police arrested Kumiko Yasufuku, a resident of the same city, on suspicion of murder. This marked a significant development 26 years after the incident occurred.

Yasufuku was in the same year at the high school attended by the victim’s husband, Satoru, and they were also members of the same club at the school. Yasufuku is suspected of killing Namiko through such actions as stabbing her in the neck with a knife in a room of the........

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