Dec 31, 2020
Many of Japan’s weekly magazines typically publish double issues from the last week in December in order to give staff some time off. Such issues can easily be identified by logos, banners or trim on their covers that appear in gold, although three magazines Aera, Sunday Mainichi and Friday have abstained from the practice this year.
From looking at the magazines’ contents, you’d never have guessed what a crazy year 2020 has been. However, with many station kiosks closed due to the pandemic, I suspect that their newsstand sales and ad revenues almost certainly declined, and it’s to their credit that they’re putting up a brave front for readers. Things certainly can’t be easy.
Setsuko Miyazawa gives a prayer to her son’s family in front of their grave in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Dec. 30. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
Setsuko Miyazawa visited the house of her son’s family in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward earlier this month, but again she could not enter.
Instead, she waited outside, stared at the two-story house and then vented her frustration over the fact that the person who murdered the family of four in their home 20 years ago still has not been caught.
“There are many leads,” Miyazawa, 89, said. “Why can’t it be solved?”
More than 282,000 police officers have been assigned to the investigation at one time or another, and articles of evidence were left at the scene by the attacker. But Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department does not have a suspect in the murders of Mikio Miyazawa, 44, his 41-year-old wife, Yasuko, and their two children, Niina, 8, and Rei, 6.
The initial police investigation was criticized, with some saying officers failed to obtain information from various sources, including people in the neighborhood.
Actor Ren Ozawa apologizes after allegations of physical abuse of ex-girlfriend, forced abortion
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on December 16, 2020
TOKYO (TR) – Actor Ren Ozawa on Tuesday took to Twitter to apologize after the emergence of a report outlining alleged domestic violence carried out by him toward his former girlfriend.
“I deeply apologize for any inconvenience and concern caused to all concerned parties and fans who support me,” Ozawa wrote. “And, above all, I deeply apologize to [my former girlfriend].”
On the site for weekly tabloid
Shukan Bunshun, an article published on Monday claimed that Ozawa, 29, physically abused the woman over their five-year relationship, which ended when she tried to take her life.
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