TOKYO —

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, offered flowers at the site where she was killed and the house burned, on Tuesday, the 12th anniversary of her murder.

Tetso Tachinobe, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigation Division, attended the memorial and vowed to solve the murder-arson case. Police distributed flyers in the neighborhood on Tuesday to appeal for information on the case. No suspect has been found so far.

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  tokyokitty at 11:46 AM JST - 10th September

  The MPD should stop focusing on the gaikokujin riding their bicycles or chasing the saru in shibuya but instead do "real" police work they would have solve the case years ago but then again......

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  DenshaDeGO at 12:36 PM JST - 10th September

  Unless the suspect turns himself in the J-cops will never find him.

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  gerriburn at 03:09 PM JST - 10th September

  cold case. i hope she'd get justice though.

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  Molenir at 04:33 PM JST - 10th September

  Wow, this sounds like another case of incompetent J-Cops. Rope, inside the house. Unless it was all very premeditated, there should have been plenty of evidence to be collected. And if they preserved the evidence, with DNA sampling, there should be even more today...

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