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.

SHIZUOKA (TR) – Local residents in Shizuoka City thwarted a getaway on Thursday morning, apprehending a 76-year-old man who fled on a bicycle after plundering a neighborhood area of its produce, reviews TV Asahi (Apr. 10).

On the morning of April 9, a lady in her 50s caught sight of the suspect making an attempt to pedal away from her agricultural property. Realizing her crop had been focused, she shouted “Thief!” and instantly gave chase on foot.

Alerted by the girl’s determined cries, a passerby referred to as police, reporting to police {that a} girl was pursuing a person down the road.

The suspect appeared poised for a clear escape as his bicycle started to outpace the sufferer. However, his flight was abruptly lower brief when a male neighbor, listening to the commotion, stepped immediately into the suspect’s path and bodily restrained him.

Officers arriving on the scene formally took the suspect, recognized as an unemployed 76-year-old man, into police custody.

According to investigators, the grand complete of the person’s illicit haul was precisely 10 onions, valued at a mere 300 yen.

IWATE (TR) – Iwate Prefectural Police have arrested a 70-year-old man who was discovered to be dwelling with the corpse of his mom at their residence in Morioka City, experiences Nippon News Network (Apr. 10).

According to police, the person arrested on suspicion of abandoning a physique is Yoshimi Takahashi, a 70-year-old unemployed man from Morioka.

Takahashi is suspected of abandoning the physique of his mom, Kiyoko Takahashi, 90, on the dwelling they shared.

Upon his arrest on suspicion of abandoning a corpse, Takahashi denied the fees.

According to police, Kiyoko was discovered below the kotatsu [heated table] with solely her head protruding.

The incident got here to mild on Thursday when a welfare official was unable to contact Kiyoko and notified the police.

According to investigators, the physique confirmed no exterior accidents and was not skeletal, suggesting that she died lower than one 12 months in the past.

Police are investigating the motive and different particulars related to the incident.