60683 A legal autopsy was performed on the corpse on December 31 at the School of Medicine, Chiba University, and the cause of her death was determined to be strangulation.
60684 Around 7:30 a.m., December 31, Yusuke Takei, a company worker from Shimizu 1-chome, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, and Toyota Okada, a wood shop manager from Kamikurata-cho, Totsuka, Yokohama of Kanagawa, slipped and fell into a stream while climbing Mt. Kai Komaga-take in Yamanashi Prefecture around four-fifths of the way to the peak; Takei is still missing.
60685 Okada was rescued by his three fellow party members, with a serious injury of fracture of the right leg.
60686 As snow is falling on the site, the Nagasaka Police Station in charge will start searching for Takei in the early morning of January 1.
60687 Around 3:25 p.m. of December 31, the Tokyo head office of Asahi Shimbun (5-chome, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) reported to the Tsukiji Police Station, "Two suspicious cardboard boxes were delivered by courier service."
60688 As the boxes were heavy, weighing five and twelve kilograms respectively, the Station and the Metropolitan Police Department suspected the possibility of the boxes containing explosives, and dispatched a bomb squad of about fifty members, and opened them over approximately three hours using such measures as freezing them.
60689 However, it turned out that the boxes were only jam-packed with used notebooks and such stuff.
60690 There was no trace of explosives or threatening letters.
60691 In the obituary of Mr. Kenji Anpo, carried on page 25 of the morning issue of December 31, the date and time of his funeral and service were mistakenly printed as "11:00 a.m., January 4," while it should have been "11:00 a.m., January 5."
60692 On December 31, Ogaki Police Station of the Gifu Prefectural Police took into protective custody a boy in the first grade of junior high school, who had been missing since he left home in Yokohama on December 26, saying, "I'm going to Tokyo Station"; the Police also arrested Hidenori Nagasaka, of no fixed address and claiming to be a private school manager, who was found together with the boy in a hotel in Ogaki, on suspicion of kidnapping him, a minor.
60693 According to the investigation so far, the boy is the eldest son of a builder of Hodogaya, Yokohama of Kanagawa.
60694 On December 23, the suspect talked to the boy in the Transportation Museum in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and called him on the 26th to promise to meet at the Tokyo Station.
60695 As the boy did not come home after dark, his mother asked the Hodogaya Police Station of Kanagawa Prefectural Police to search for him.
60696 The boy is reported to be an SL train fan, and the Hodogaya Police Station is investigating Nagasaka for the details, including his motivation for the crime.
60697 Around 7:20 p.m., December 31, a karaoke house owner found smoke coming out of a post box on the street of Honmachi 1-chome, Kisshoji, Musashino of Tokyo, and police officers from a police box of Musashino Police Station, located at the east exit of Kisshoji Station, extinguished the fire with water in a bucket.