Aoki told investigators he shot the two police officers “because I assumed they would gun me down,” the sources said. Nagano prefectural police on May 27 examined the police car left at the ...

The Nagano District Public Prosecutors Office announced the indictment against Masanori Aoki after a three-month psychiatric assessment determined that he was mentally fit to stand trial.

Police in central Japan ... Aoki told police he carried out the knife attack because he thought he was being spoken ill of, and he shot the officers because he thought they might shoot him. Nagano ...