{"id":23010,"date":"2026-05-15T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/23010\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:44:08","slug":"setagaya-family-murders-vietnamese-nationals-arrested-over-break-in-at-crime-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/23010\/","title":{"rendered":"Setagaya family murders: Vietnamese nationals arrested over break-in at crime scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (TR) \u2013 Tokyo Metropolitan Police have re-arrested two Vietnamese nationals for allegedly breaking into the site of the unsolved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoreporter.com\/japan-news\/special-reports\/setagaya-family-murders-24-years-on-expanded-dna-usage-urged\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Setagaya family murders<\/a> from more than two decades ago in an attempt to steal valuables, reports the Sankei Shimbun (May 14).<\/p>\n<p>Construction workers Luong Van Hai, 32, of no fixed address, and Nguyen Manh Hung, 28, of Chofu City, have admitted to charges of trespassing and attempted theft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was an empty house. We did it to make ends meet,\u201d the suspects reportedly told investigators.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the pair allegedly smashed a first-floor window to gain entry to the vacant property in the Kamiososhigaya area sometime between September and mid-December of last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vietnamese-national-Setagaya-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese national Setagaya\" width=\"1832\" height=\"1031\"  \/>Luong Van Hai (X)<\/p>\n<p>The break-in was discovered on December 13 when a detective for the Tokyo police \u2014 which still actively investigates the horrific December 2000 massacre of 44-year-old Mikio Miyazawa and his family of four \u2014 visited the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Luong was initially arrested in March after an officer questioned him at a subway station in Nerima Ward and discovered he was in the country illegally. Subsequent police work linked him to the break-in at the Miyazawa residence. Nguyen\u2019s involvement came to light following his own arrest for visa violations in April.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the two men previously lived together and worked the same day-labor jobs. Both suspects have already been indicted for violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act by overstaying their visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (TR) \u2013 Tokyo Metropolitan Police have re-arrested two Vietnamese nationals for allegedly breaking into the site of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-23010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tokyo","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}