ジャパンタイムズで学ぶ ロス疑惑三浦和義逮捕

ジャパンタイムズ2月28日号が 　ロス疑惑三浦和義逮捕　について取り上げています。

20年も経っていて新証言が出たとは思いにくいのですが・・・
20年も前のことを誰が覚えているのでしょうか？
不思議な話です。

朝日新聞の27日記事にはこうなっています。
 
　三浦元社長の身柄確保に向け、米自治領サイパンで出入国への警戒網が張られたのは、昨年１０月ごろからだったことが、サイパン検事局が地元の地裁に提出した宣誓供述書で分かった。
　この書面によると、検事局は、米国土安全保障省経由でロサンゼルス市警から元社長拘束への協力を求められた。ロス市警と直接連絡をとり、８８年に発付された逮捕状の写しなどを受け取ったという。
　これに基づき、元社長の出入国を警戒するよう担当部署に求めていたところ、２月２２日午後２時ごろ、サイパン空港を出国しようとした元社長を拘束したとの連絡が、入管当局からあった。駆けつけた検事局職員が逮捕状を読み上げ、銃撃事件で亡くなった一美さんの名前を告げたところ、元社長は「私の妻です」と応じたという。
　元社長は２６日、外務省の在サイパン出張駐在官事務所の領事らと面会した際、「米国（本土）への入国は避けていたが、サイパンは別だと思っていた」と話したという。

Miura signaled hit man to shoot wife in L.A.: 1988 warrant
三浦和義ロス疑惑で妻殺害を依頼：1988年逮捕状

 Kazuyoshi Miura, the businessman arrested last week on charges of murdering his wife in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, orchestrated and gave a final hand signal for the shooting to go ahead, according to an arrest warrant issued in 1988.

（試訳）
1980年初頭にロスアンゼルスで妻を殺害したとして先週逮捕された三浦和義元社長は、周到に殺害を準備し殺害を指示したと1988年に発行された逮捕状で明らかになった。

（語句解説）
signal 合図する
on charges of　～の疑いで
orchestrate　画策する、周到に用意する

（全文）

Miura signaled hit man to shoot wife in L.A.: 1988 warrant

LOS ANGELES (AP) Kazuyoshi Miura, the businessman arrested last week on charges of murdering his wife in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, orchestrated and gave a final hand signal for the shooting to go ahead, according to an arrest warrant issued in 1988.

The warrant, by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, alleges Miura carried out a plot for his wife to be killed while on vacation in California so he could claim millions of yen in life insurance.
Miura, 60, was arrested Friday in Saipan in the U.S. commonwealth territory of the Northern Mariana Islands on the 1988 warrant. He was in custody there Tuesday, awaiting extradition to California.
Miura and his 28-year-old wife, Kazumi, were shot in a downtown Los Angeles parking lot in November 1981. He was hit in the right leg. She was shot in the head and died in a Japanese hospital a year later.
Miura claimed the pair were gunned down by unknown robbers in a car.
The arrest warrant states: "Miura . . . gave a hand signal to an unknown person to shoot Kazumi Miura in the head." The weapon was a .22-caliber firearm, the warrant states.
In 1994, Miura was convicted in Japan of murdering his wife, but that verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court 10 years ago.
The shooting caused an international uproar, in part because Miura blamed the attack on robbers, which fed into the fears of many tourists who viewed Los Angeles as a dangerous city.
The crime garnered extensive public attention in Japan, and remains one of the country's longest-running mysteries. It also inspired a 2004 episode of the NBC television series "Law & Order" titled "Gaijin," which had a story line in which a Japanese couple was shot and the wife was killed.
The cold-case detective investigating the shooting, Rick Jackson, said Monday a key piece of evidence could be witness statements that differ from what the prime suspect told police at the time.
Jackson said Miura told police at the time that a car pulled up and someone inside opened fire. But other witnesses in a high-rise building a block away also saw the attack.
"Their description of the vehicle was completely different from what Mr. Miura provided," Jackson said at a news conference crammed with dozens of reporters, many from Japanese media outlets.
The witnesses did not see the shooter, as their view was blocked by the car, he said.
Ira Reiner, who was district attorney from 1984 to 1992, said Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives initially did not believe Miura was involved in his wife's killing and thought he had been the victim of a vicious, but commonplace, street crime.
The case might well have been abandoned were it not for the actions of one investigator, Jimmy Sakoda, who headed the department's Asian crimes task force at the time, Reiner said. Sakoda was unable to convince the department that Miura may have been involved in his wife's death, so he went to Reiner instead.
"Jimmy strongly believed to the contrary," said Reiner, 72, who now practices civil litigation. "When Jimmy brought it over to us, it was obvious that (Miura) was involved in her homicide."
The district attorney's office investigated the killing and worked with Japanese prosecutors, Reiner said.
Sakoda's phone number was not listed and he could not be reached for comment. He quit the police department in 1984 and joined the district attorney's office as an investigator.
Miura's lawyer, Shinichiro Hironaka, said he would formally urge the Japanese government not to help investigators.
"Given that this case has been closed in Japan," Hironaka said, "the Justice Ministry and Japanese police should no longer have to respond to requests from the police for evidence or to cooperate with the investigation."
The U.S. and most state constitutions prohibit double jeopardy ? trying someone twice for the same crime. California legislators, however, passed a law in 2004 that allows someone tried in another country to stand trial here for the same crime. A defendant receives credit for time behind bars overseas ? in this case 13 years for Miura.
Jackson said U.S. authorities had been made aware that Miura, a clothing importer, sometimes traveled to U.S. soil and were waiting for him to make another trip to a U.S. jurisdiction.
The complaint against Miura also alleges conspiracy, because he may have paid a third party to carry out the shooting, Jackson said.
Jackson suggested the witness accounts would be important in the new prosecution.
"Everybody thinks cold cases are strictly DNA and fingerprint evidence run through the computer," Jackson said. "We also go back to cases where there was a focus on an individual before and now we have time to go back and reinterview people."
The warrant states that Miura conspired with Michiko Yazawa and another person to carry out the killing. Yazawa, an actress, was a former girlfriend of Miura.