High court upholds man's acquittal over murders of 3 women in Saga... Keralanext.com, Crime News(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In a May 2005 ruling, the Saga District Court found company employee Teruhiko Matsue not guilty of killing the three as the evidence submitted by prosecutors was "not sufficient enough to judge that the defendant is the true culprit beyond reasonable doubt." The prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for him.
The defense counsel discounted the discovery, saying the DNA is not sufficient for identification purposes, and contended that the prosecutors had concealed forensic evidence indicating the possibility of another culprit, such as the discovery of urine residue on a seat in Matsue's car that does not match that of any of the victims.
In November that year, Matsue submitted a written confession during questioning by the Saga prefectural police, but he later retracted it, leading the police at that time to give up establishing the case against him as a murder suspect due to insufficient evidence.
Kyushu's smallest prefecture, Saga is located on the northwest corner of the island, bordered by the Genkai Sea and the Tsushima Strait to the north and the Ariake Sea to the south.
The City of Saga, the Towns of Morodomi, Yamato and Fuji and the Village of Mitsuse are planned to be merged to form the new City of Saga on 1 October 2005, which will then supplant Karatsu as the prefecture's largest metropolitan area.
The Merger Council of Saga, Morodomi, Yamato, Fuji and Mitsuse (in Japanese)
A district (郡; gun) was the administrative unit during the period from 1890 to 1923, which is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, and was ranked at the level below prefecture and above city, town or village.
Ariake (有明町; -chou) had been a town located in the Kishima District of Saga prefecture, on the island of Japan until merged on January 1, 2005 to be a part of the town of Shiroishi.
The Towns of Kanzaki and Chiyoda together with the Village of Sefuri are scheduled to merge to form the City of Kanzaki on 20 March 2006.
Saga Prefecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Saga Prefecture (佐賀県; Saga-ken) is located on (The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields) Kyushu (A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water) island, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
The capital is the city of (A narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account) Saga.
The Towns of (additional info and facts about Nakabaru) Nakabaru, (additional info and facts about Kitashigeyasu) Kitashigeyasu and (Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted) Mine were merged to form the Town of Miyaki.
Japan Times: Man acquitted of killing three women; prosecutors rapped(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
SAGA (Kyodo) The Saga District Court on Tuesday acquitted a 42-year-old man of killing three women in Kitagata, Saga Prefecture, between 1987 and 1989, citing a lack of evidence.
Their bodies were found in January 1989 in a mountainous forest near Kitagata.
Matsue was Yoshino's boyfriend, and he wrote the statement confessing to the murders when he was being detained by police in connection with a separate criminal investigation.
Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Saga Prefecture(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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Well come Takeo Web Site(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With Takeo Kitagata Interchange established in the route of Nagasaki Expressway, Takeo City is just one-hour drive from main local airports such as Ariake Saga Airport, Fukuoka Airport and Nagasaki Airport.
Recently Takeo City has had an important issue on merge with its three neighboring towns: Yamauchi-cho, Shiota-cho and Ureshino-cho.
In June 2003, the city government and the three municipalities established a committee named "Municipal Merge Committee among One City and Three Towns in the West Saga Prefecture." Since then, these municipalities have been discussing Merge Agreement Items and New City Construction Plans, aiming to achieve the merge in March of 2005.
Kyodo World News Service: Murder 7 2 0297 Saga Pref. suspect to face charges in 2nd case@ HighBeam Research(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dateline: SAGA, Japan, July 2 Police are preparing to serve a fresh arrest warrant on a second murder charge on a jailed man over the deaths of three women whose bodies were found 13 years ago in the town of Kitagata, Saga Prefecture, investigative sources said Tuesday.
Teruhiko Matsue, a 39-year-old native from Kitagata who was served an arrest warrant last month on suspicion of killing seamstress Tatsuyo Yoshino, 37, will now face a charge of killing Sumiko Fujise, a 48- year-old restaurant employee, they said.
The bodies of Fujise and Yoshino were found nearby, together...
