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Tokyo police arrest man who says he killed former govt official
AFP - 2 hours 5 minutes ago
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japanese police on Sunday arrested a man for illegal possession of a knife after he turned himself in saying he had killed a former top pensions bureaucrat, a spokesman said.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested unemployed Tsuyoshi Koizumi, 46, on suspicion of violating the swords control law, which bans possessing or carrying knives without permission or proper reasons.
"A knife with a 20-centimetre (eight-inch) blade was found in the car he drove here," a police spokesman said.
Media reports said the knife was bloodstained.
The spokesman noted the arrest was not over the murder but police are continuing investigations.
Japan, which has one of the world's lowest crime rates, was shocked last week after the discovery Tuesday of the dead bodies of a 61-year-old former vice-welfare minister and his wife at their home in Saitama, north of Tokyo.
"I killed the (former) vice-minister," Koizumi was quoted as telling a police officer when he turned himself in.
Koizumi told police that he was "angry because my pet was killed by a healthcare centre before" but investigators are treating the apparent confession with caution, local media said.
Prime Minister Taro Aso said he was informed of the development in the high-profile case.
"If it's him, it would be unforgivable," he told reporters in Lima late Saturday on the sidelines of Asia-Pacific talks.
The wife of another 76-year-old former vice-welfare minister was seriously wounded on her doorstep late Tuesday, attacked by a man pretending to be from a parcel delivery service.
Both officials once served as directors at the welfare ministry's troubled pensions division, raising the possibility that the attacks are linked to the loss of millions of pension payment records.
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