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Statute of limitations to expire on 'Satanic Verses' murder

TSUKUBA, Japan - File photo shows Hitoshi Igarashi, a researcher of Islamic studies and an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba, who translated British author Salman Rushdie's disputed novel ''The Satanic Verses'' into Japanese. He was found dead with multiple stab wounds in the university complex on July 12, 1991. The 15-year statute of limitations expires at midnight July 10. (Kyodo)

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Murdered Rushdie translator+

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 16 Kyodo - Photo taken on July 30, 1990, at an unidentified location shows Hitoshi Igarashi, an assistant professor at Japan's state-run Tsukuba University. The Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses," Igarashi was stabbed to death at the university campus in Tsukuba near Tokyo by an unidentified person on July 11, 1991. The statute of limitations in the case expired on July 11, 2006.

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Murdered Rushdie translator+

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 16 Kyodo - Photo taken on May 22, 1986, at an unidentified location shows Hitoshi Igarashi, an assistant professor at Japan's state-run Tsukuba University. The Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses," Igarashi was stabbed to death at the university campus in Tsukuba near Tokyo by an unidentified person on July 11, 1991. The statute of limitations in the case expired on July 11, 2006.

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Statute of limitations to expire on 'Satanic Verses' murder

TSUKUBA, Japan - File photo shows Hitoshi Igarashi, a researcher of Islamic studies and an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba, who translated British author Salman Rushdie's disputed novel ''The Satanic Verses'' into Japanese. He was found dead with multiple stab wounds in the university complex on July 12, 1991. The 15-year statute of limitations expires at midnight July 10. (Kyodo)