Police investigating the murder of a 90-year-old woman at her house in Komae, Tokyo, last week, said that information on mobile phones confiscated from suspects in two robberies in Tokyo's Nakano Ward, and Chiba Prefecture, listed the Komae house as a target for a "job." Kinuyo Oshio was found dead…
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Members of a group suspected of staging robberies across east Japan are believed to have been involved in similar crimes in two western prefectures as well, investigative sources say.
A group behind a violent burglary in the capital was likely involved in similar cases in Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures, as well as planning for a deadly robbery in Tokyo’s Komae city, investigative sources said.