Tokyo police arrested a 30-year-old South Korean man early Tuesday on suspicion of fatally cutting his ex-girlfriend’s throat in a residential district of Setagaya Ward, after she recently sought police help over threats of violence from him.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s international crime division arrested Park Yong-jun on suspicion of murder. He has remained silent during questioning.
The victim was identified as 40-year-old Bang Ji-won, also a South Korean national who ran her own business in Tokyo.
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