15:00 JST, May 19, 2026

Does it mean they’ll do anything for money? The vileness of a criminal group that so easily took a person’s life and used high school students as “disposable pawns” is horrifying.

An incident occurred in which a group of boys broke into a private home in the town of Kaminokawa, Tochigi Prefecture, ransacked the premises for valuables, and killed a woman and injured her two sons. To date, police have arrested four 16-year-old high school students and a married couple in their 20s on suspicion of robbery and murder. The high school students are believed to be the perpetrators of the crime, while the couple is believed to have given orders to the students.

The 69-year-old woman who was killed had more than 20 stab and other wounds. This extremely vicious crime, which took place in broad daylight, has shaken the........

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