<figure id="attachment_291694" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-291694" style="width: 691px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a0edaaa7"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/6SH_8755ab1_original.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-291694" class="wp-caption-text">Nagata immediately after his arrest. He showed no signs of remorse when he was sent to the prosecutor&#8217;s office.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Nagata was sentenced to life imprisonment as requested.</span></p>
<p> The court imposed a heavy sentence on the perpetrator of a black market robbery who assaulted and killed a 90-year-old woman and robbed her of a luxury watch.</p>
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<p> On November 7, the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa Branch (Presiding Judge Satoru Sugawara) sentenced Rikuto Nagata, 23, to life imprisonment for robbery, manslaughter, and other crimes. Nagata and other perpetrators are alleged to have been involved in multiple black market robberies. In January 2011, they broke into a house in Komae City, Tokyo. They killed a 90-year-old woman, Mrs. A, who was inside the house, and robbed her of four luxury watches (worth a total of 590,000 yen).</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The defense argued that Nagata was used as a pawn, and that he should be blamed for the crime. The defense sought a fixed term sentence. The prosecution, on the other hand, was seeking life imprisonment on the grounds that &#8216;Nagata was the leader of the group of perpetrators and contributed to a criminal group that inflicted severe assaults on the victims. Nagata himself appealed, &#8220;Please give him a maximum sentence that takes into consideration the feelings of the victims&#8217; families.</span></p>
<p> In an article distributed on January 25, 2011, &#8220;FRIDAY Digital&#8221; reported in detail on the case of the elderly Ms. A. The article recounts and introduces Nagata&#8217;s horrifying true face with photos. We would like to look back on his shocking words and actions (some content has been corrected).</p>
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<h2> Bleeding from the face</h2>
<p> The damage is being done all over Japan.</p>
<p> A group of four to eight men broke into a house, assaulted the residents, and robbed them of their cash. Similar incidents have occurred across Japan.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In a series of incidents, there have been fatalities. On January 19, 2011, 90-year-old Mr. A was found dead in his home in Komae City, Tokyo. Metropolitan Police Department officers, who received information from the Chiba Prefectural Police, where robberies frequently occur, visited Mr. A&#8217;s home and found his body. He was lying in the corridor on the first basement floor with both wrists tied with a bandage and blood pouring from his face.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Mr. A lived with his son, his wife, and two grandchildren, but the family had been out since the morning of the murder. The cause of Mr. A&#8217;s death was multiple traumas caused by the assault all over his body,&#8221; said a reporter from a national newspaper.</span></p>
<p> It seems that the perpetrators shared information from the instructor on social networking services. Messages related to the Komae City crime were found on the smartphone of a perpetrator seized during another robbery in Tokyo. The application used was a communication application called &#8220;Telegram,&#8221; which is highly confidential and has a function to erase information after a certain period of time.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" The true face of the defendant, a gambler"></div>
<figure id="attachment_291697" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-291697" style="width: 1363px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="54bb18e1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/5978a014bc8c4f9704c261150a1e92a7.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-291697" class="wp-caption-text">Defendant Nagata believed to have been involved in multiple incidents (some photos doctored)</figcaption></figure>
<h2> &#8216;Is he doing something wrong?</h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8216;The instructor is believed to be a gangster or semi-gangster. At the trial of the already arrested executor, it was revealed that he had recruited members through a &#8220;blackout job. The perpetrator did not even know the name of the instructor.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The perpetrators received instructions such as, &#8220;10 million yen reward for robbery,&#8221; &#8220;100 million yen in the safe,&#8221; etc., and committed the crimes with unknown members they met at the crime scene. It is believed that the instructor decided the place and time of the attack based on a &#8220;black book&#8221; containing the addresses, telephone numbers, and family situations of elderly people with large sums of cash,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
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<p> The key person in the investigation was the person who broke into a house in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, on December 5, 2010, beat a man in his 40s, took about 30 million yen in cash, and fled. Nagata, whose occupation is unknown, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and stated, &#8220;I beat him to a pulp. Information related to the Komae City incident was also found on a smartphone seized from the rental car in which Nagata was riding.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Nagata, who is believed to be involved in multiple incidents, seems to have joined the criminal group through a &#8220;dark job. He was born in Kyoto City but moved to Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture at the age of 16. He was working for various construction companies, but he was addicted to gambling and had financial difficulties. According to a resident who lived in the same apartment, he was a boating enthusiast and would say, &#8220;I got beaten by 500,000 yen today. When he was feeling rich, he would show three luxury watches and ask, &#8220;Where can I get cash for them? He also asked me, &#8220;Where can I get cash for them?</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> On the other hand, he also showed signs of fear, saying, &#8220;If you see a suspicious car, let me know. If it was the police, there would be people inside (the car),&#8221; he said. The resident asked, &#8216;Are you doing something wrong?&#8217; He slurred his words when asked, &#8216;No, just a little &#8230;&#8230;. He may have been afraid of being arrested because of his repeated crimes.</span></p>
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<p> In addition to Nagata, several other perpetrators have been indicted in the Komae City case.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" A 90-year-old woman... graphic &quot;crime scene&quot; photos"></div>
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<figure id="attachment_291701" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-291701" style="width: 2383px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="0787f5d6"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/6SH_8754aa1_original.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-291701" class="wp-caption-text"> Defendant Nagata, who is believed to have been involved in multiple incidents (some photos have been doctored)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_291702" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-291702" style="width: 5568px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="1a6bac3b"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/6SH_8075_original.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-291702" class="wp-caption-text"> Murdered house of Mr. A (photo has been partially doctored)</figcaption></figure>
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 Shinji Hasuo

 In Komae City, Tokyo, a 23-year-old defendant who was a key player in the robbery and murder of a 90-year-old woman was sentenced to life imprisonment. What is the horrifying background of the defendant, who flaunts a luxury watch, and the group's terrifying information network?

The &#8220;black market job robber&#8221; who assaulted and killed a 90-year-old woman, &#8220;beat her to a pulp,&#8221; and stole 30 million yen&#8230;Fearful true picture of the robber

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