NAKANO, Nagano Prefecture—The father of a murder ... The sources quoted the father as saying that his son, Masanori Aoki, now 31, seemed more discouraged with life after he dropped out of ...

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 ...