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NYT: Motive in Japanese Stabbings: a Dead Dog

The Japanese police say the motive in last week’s stabbing deaths of a former health ministry official and his wife appeared to be anger over a long-dead dog.

On Monday, the police arrested a 46-year-old unemployed man, Takeshi Koizumi, after he turned himself in for the killings. He was carrying a blood-stained knife.

The police had been investigating whether the killings, which shocked this low-crime nation, were motivated by recent scandals involving tens of millions of lost pension records, which are administered by the ministry.

But Mr. Koizumi told police that he was angry at the ministry because, decades ago, animal control agents had put to sleep a stray dog that he had befriended as a child.