Police search house over 9-year confinement case

Police search house over 9-year confinement case

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Police search a two-story house in the central Niigata prefecture city of Kashiwazaki on the Sea of Japan coast on Jan. 29, where a 37-year-old jobless man allegedly confined for more than nine years a then 9-year-old elementary school girl he had abducted on Nov. 13, 1990. The house is about 47 kilometers southwest of her home in the city of Sanjo. ''For nine years, I did not take a step out of the second floor of the house,'' she, now 19, told police.

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