The Supreme Court has upheld Kazuyoshi Miura's conviction by two lower courts of conspiracy to kill his wife in a 1981 attempted murder case, making it likely that the 51-year-old businessman will return to prison, it was learned Friday.
The top court decision comes in the wake of a Tokyo High Court ruling in July, in which Miura was acquitted of masterminding the fatal shooting three months later of his wife, Kazumi, in Los Angeles.
Miura, who had been in prison since 1985, was released after the high court ruling, while prosecutors appealed the shooting case to the top court.