OKINAWA — The grieving father of a 17-year-old highschool pupil who died when a ship capsized off the coast her has lashed out at what he described as an “extremely bizarre” college journey.

According to the Sankei Shimbun (Apr. 2), the daddy of Tomoka Takeishi has revealed that his daughter thought she was going to take a look at coral reefs, not take part in a political protest.

Takeishi, a second-year pupil at Doshisha International High School in Kyoto Prefecture, died after the vessel she was driving in overturned off the coast of Henoko, Nago City on March 16.

At the time, she was taking part in what the varsity referred to as a “peace study” tour.

“I am suffering”

According to a collection of posts made by her father on the publishing platform Note.com, {the teenager} had no concept she can be positioned on a small protest boat operated by activists opposing the relocation of a U.S. army base.

“I am suffering and haven’t been able to process my emotions,” the daddy wrote. He defined that he determined to talk out publicly to cease the unfold of false info surrounding his daughter’s tragic dying.

The bereaved father slammed the varsity’s curriculum as “extremely bizarre,” criticizing the choice to position harmless college students on a protest boat for political actions with out enough security measures.

In a heartbreaking revelation, the daddy shared Tomoka’s ultimate reasoning for selecting the Okinawa itinerary over an alternate vacation spot.

“Rather than looking at scary paintings in an art museum, it sounds more fun to look at beautiful coral reefs with my friends,” the teenager had instructed her mother and father earlier than leaving for the journey.

She had no information that she can be boarded onto a vessel operated by the Helicopter Base Objection Association, a neighborhood anti-base protest group. Two vessels operated by the group overturned through the outing, ensuing within the deaths of Takeishi and the 71-year-old boat captain.

“Avoid burdening her parents”

Takeishi spent her childhood in Jakarta from the age of two to 11. After returning to Japan in 2021, she was drawn to Doshisha International Junior High School’s liberal environment and setting that fostered her English language abilities, and enrolled there.

In highschool, she attended a program at an American college.

“She had a concrete plan for her future, focusing on American universities, and even researched ways to avoid burdening her parents,” her father wrote. “She and her friends entered a speech contest that led to a world competition in Miami, and I could feel that she was working harder than ever towards her future when this sudden event occurred.”

The deadly incident has sparked heavy scrutiny over the varsity’s compliance and security administration.

Her father wrote, “It is a problem that violates the principles of the Basic Education Law for teachers to lead activities that are biased towards a particular political stance, or that could be misunderstood as such.”

Furthermore, relating to the varsity’s security administration, together with the truth that no academics have been on board the boat, he wrote, “I am speechless at the thought that it was acceptable to abandon supervision at the scene.”

According to the Sankei, critics at the moment are demanding solutions from the tutorial establishment and the concerned journey company for allegedly forcing college students right into a doubtlessly harmful political setting underneath the guise of a regular instructional journey.

TOKYO (TR) — “I was thinking about involving others in my death.”

These had been the chilling phrases 26-year-old Taiki Hirokawa informed investigators months earlier than he carried out a brutal murder-suicide at a busy business advanced in Ikebukuro, leaving his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend lifeless, studies Jiji Press (Apr. 2).

On the night of March 26, terror struck the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo contained in the Sunshine City mall in Toshima Ward. Hirokawa, wielding a knife, stormed the crowded store and repeatedly stabbed part-time worker Moe Harukawa in a focused assault. The suspect then turned the blade on himself, slashing his personal throat. Both had been later pronounced lifeless.

Details rising from the continuing police investigation paint a darkish image of a relationship that spiraled right into a deadly obsession. According to police, the 2 met in December 2023 at a fast-food restaurant in Hachioji City, the place they each labored.

“You’re not cut out for it”

After Harukawa ended the connection, Hirokawa’s habits escalated right into a marketing campaign of harassment, which included the sending of abusive messages. He wrote, “Quit your job at the Pokémon Center because you’re not cut out for it.”

She then blocked him on the chat app Line, which triggered the suspect to have interaction in stalking habits in 2025. On December 25, a message card was left in entrance of her dwelling that learn, “Please contact me tonight. Please help me.”

Harukawa contacted the police that very same day. When investigators escorted her dwelling, they discovered the suspect close by and arrested him on suspicion of violating the Stalker Control Law.

During questioning after his arrest, the suspect confessed, “I loved her. I wanted to get back together with her.” A fruit knife was present in a rental automotive parked close by. He reportedly mentioned on the time, “I was thinking about suicide. I was thinking about involving others in my death.”

Despite being ordered to pay an 800,000 yen tremendous following a abstract indictment in January, his lethal fixation remained unchecked.

Swimmer in his youth

Relatives of the suspect have expressed shock on the tragedy. Raised primarily in Okinawa Prefecture by a single mom, Hirokawa was a aggressive swimmer in his youth, as soon as serving to his group set a prefectural center college file within the 800-meter relay.

“He was a gentle, upstanding older brother to his younger siblings,” one former neighbor recalled. However, after failing his college entrance exams, his life appeared to lose course.

Shortly earlier than the bloody rampage, Hirokawa reportedly boasted to his mom, “I got a girlfriend!” This delusion is what investigators consider might have triggered his closing, deadly outburst.

The case has reignited fierce debate over the effectiveness of present anti-stalking legal guidelines, as Harukawa’s determined pleas to authorities had been in the end unable to save lots of her from her ex-lover’s assault.

WAKAYAMA (TR) – The 30-year-old widow of Kosuke Nozaki, the rich businessman famously dubbed the “Don Juan of Kishu,” has abruptly suspended her social media exercise after making sensational claims about her high-profile homicide trial earlier this month.

Saki Sudo, who was acquitted in each her district and excessive court docket trials over the 2018 deadly methamphetamine (kakuseizai) poisoning of her husband, has drawn vital consideration on X (previously Twitter).

Despite her authorized victories, the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office has appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, making certain her court docket battle continues.

“I’m the real deal”

An account believed to belong to Sudo, launched in October 2025, had been laying naked the behind-the-scenes actuality of her interrogations and her candid ideas on the trial. The profile biography bluntly said, “People say I’m fake, but I’m the real deal,” and featured a photograph of her official court docket judgment doc as its header.

In a put up dated April 8, Sudo coldly analyzed how her polarizing persona might have influenced her destiny within the courtroom.

“Just between us, I’m well aware that I’m the type of person women hate,” she wrote on April 8. “So the moment I found out in the first lay judge trial that the presiding judge and four out of six lay judges were women, I thought I was doomed.”

“So many slutty women”

Sudo’s account additionally shared photographs of letters she obtained whereas held within the detention middle and disclosed stunning anecdotes about her interactions together with her protection crew, sparking widespread on-line debate.

The posts are defiant and cocky. On April 6, she posted, “The prosecutor has appealed. Lol.”

Sudo additionally described her interrogation following her arrest. She claimed that she was “tied to a chair with ropes for hours, yelled at in Wakayama dialect like, ‘You killed him, didn’t you?’”

She additionally says the desk was kicked. “This is an interrogation method unthinkable in the Reiwa Era,” she wrote.

Sudo additionally mentioned her public notion, together with a remark from her lawyer: “Saki, you’re the type of person women dislike, so I was afraid it might affect the trial.”

“I thought that was true,” she wrote on April 8. “I guess what he meant was that my lifestyle is disliked by serious people. But then, during the questioning of a witness, that lawyer called her a ‘slut like Saki.’ Lol. I thought, ‘Am I really hated?’”

Later, she added a correction: “I wrote that my lawyer called me a slut, but it wasn’t about me, it was about someone else. There are so many slutty women mentioned, so I got confused. I’m sorry.”

Halting posts

The subsequent day, nonetheless, she introduced she is going to halt additional posts.

“My lawyer warned me out of concern, so I’m taking an indefinite break,” she wrote. “(I never thought I’d be saying something like an idol, lol.) I don’t know if my statements will influence the Supreme Court, but I’ve been told to refrain from making any rash statements until the trial is over.”

She stated she solely criticized the strategies of the police, prosecutors and media.

“I didn’t incite the court at all,” she wrote. “In fact, I’m grateful that they made an appropriate judgment in that situation.”

Meth poisoning

Nozaki, who notoriously bragged of spending billions of yen courting 1000’s of ladies, died of acute methamphetamine poisoning at his dwelling in Wakayama Prefecture in May 2018.

Sudo stands accused of administering the deadly dose, a declare she has denied in each trials.

While decrease courts discovered inadequate proof to convict Sudo of the homicide, prosecutors are persevering with their battle on the nation’s prime court docket.

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 23-year-old Nepalese language scholar after the stays of a new child child have been discovered stuffed in a closet at a dormitory in Arakawa Ward, studies the Asahi Shimbun (Apr. 10).

Thapa Radha Kumari was taken into custody on Friday on suspicion of abandoning a corpse.

According to the Arakawa Police Station, Kumari is accused of concealing the toddler’s physique inside a closet at her Japanese language college dormitory someday between April 6 and April 7.

“The child I gave birth to died, and I didn’t know what to do,” the suspect was quoted by investigators upon admitting to the allegations.

On the morning of April 7, fellow dormitory residents observed bleeding from the lady’s decrease physique and referred to as emergency companies. At the hospital she was taken to, she defined that she had given delivery.

Officers from Arakawa Police Station, who obtained the decision, confirmed the toddler’s presence on the scene. The toddler was discovered wrapped in towels and positioned in a plastic bag contained in the closet of her room.

Occurred in isolation

The lady is believed to have come to Japan in April of final yr, and has described the toddler’s father as “a former boyfriend who is Nepalese.”

Police are at the moment awaiting the outcomes of an post-mortem to find out the child’s actual reason for demise. Investigators are actively wanting into the circumstances surrounding the delivery, which authorities suspect occurred in isolation.

The case shines a renewed highlight on an ongoing challenge of remoted births amongst overseas college students and technical trainees in Japan, lots of whom cover their pregnancies out of worry that they are going to be deported or stripped of their visa standing by their colleges or employers.