1996 murder of Sophia University student remembered

TOKYO, Japan - The parents of Junko Kobayashi, a 21-year-old Sophia University student who was bound and stabbed to death inside their house in Tokyo in 1996, offer flowers at the site where she was killed and the house burned on Sept. 9 on the 12th anniversary of her murder. Tetso Tachinobe, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, attended the memorial and vowed to resolve the murder-arson case. Police distributed flyers in the neighborhood on Sept. 9 to appeal for information on the case. No suspect has been found so far.

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