
Chiba supermarket manager held over shoplifter's death
japan today > Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 11:07 EDT
CHIBA --Police arrested the manager of a supermarket in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday on suspicion of beating a shoplifter and leaving him to die outside the shop. Yuichi Iwasawa, 40, allegedly found a man shoplifting at around 8 p.m. Tuesday inside his supermarket, took him to a storage space, beat him in the stomach and face and left him on a nearby road...more...