Suspect hired the hitman through a post for "underground work" via a social-networking service
Posts tagged as “murder”
Toshio Maruyama is believed to have died due to natural causes
Man was holding a bloodstained knife when he visited a police box after the incident
Mother of one of the victims says, 'It's painful'
Suspect said, ‘I got angry after he scattered cigarette ashes from a plastic bottle on the floor’
Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death on December 15
Judge ruled that the defendant 'had the ability to refrain from carrying out the murder'
Judge described the crimes as being ‘vicious and of a level rarely seen in Japan’
Hiroshi Nozaki told the Tokyo District Court in 2009, ‘I admit to everything’
Case is being treated as murder