A man turned himself in to the Metropolitan Police Department Saturday evening, claiming that he had killed a former health and welfare vice minister. Ten knives were found in a rented minivan he drove to the MPD; two were bloodstained. Police initially arrested the 46-year-old for illegal possession of weapons.
Police were to serve a second arrest warrant on the man on suspicion of murdering former health and welfare vice minister Takehiko Yamaguchi and his wife Michiko, who were found dead in their house in Saitama the morning of Nov. 18.
On the evening of the same day, Ms. Yasuko Yoshihara, the wife of another former health and welfare vice minister Kenji Yoshihara, was stabbed and seriously injured by a man who pretended to be a parcel delivery man.