Officials are increasingly on alert for coins, keys, strings of beads and bracelets whose gold content has been concealed by paint
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Suspect told police 'I wanted us to die together'
Total of 83 wooden boats have washed ashore along the Sea of Japan coast this year
Woman was told by a persons pretending to be from the FSA that cash was being withdrawn from her bank account by a third party
Suspect paid a middle school girl a total of ¥110,000 to engage in sex at his resort house in Fujisawa City in October and November
Shigenaga Tomioka and his wife wielded swords in slashing his sister to death near Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in Koto Ward
Takayuki Matsuoka died after being stabbed in the abdomen by an unknown assailant on a road in Minami Ward
Police believe the body could belong to another national of North Korea or a missing person due to the Great East Japan Earthquake
Suspect allegedly kissed the girl and fondled her lower body
Farmer allegedly stole three pairs of women's underwear hanging out to dry from a shed in Gobo City










