Man, 19, Arrested for Allegedly Killing Girl near Tokyo

From Jiji

June 11 2026

Sagamihara – Police in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, arrested a man, 19, on Thursday for allegedly murdering a 17-year-old local high school girl. 
   The man, a self-proclaimed painter and resident of the city of Sagamihara in Kanagawa, admitted to the allegations against him, according to the Kanagawa prefectural police department. He is a former boyfriend of the girl.
   The girl, a high school third grader from the Kanagawa city of Zama, adjacent to Sagamihara, was found lying on a riverbank in Sagamihara in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest around 1:50 a.m. Thursday. She was sent to a hospital and confirmed dead there.
   The man is suspected of killing the girl, including by choking her, at a vacant site in Sagamihara around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to the police.
   The girl went out Wednesday afternoon, telling her mother that she would see her former boyfriend, but she did not return home. Her mother made an emergency police call around 11:50 p.m. that day.