In January 1984, more than two years after his wife was gunned down in a Los Angeles parking lot, a major weekly newsmagazine began a series of articles titled "Bullet of suspicion," suggesting Kazuyoshi Miura arranged his wife's murder for the insurance money.
The series marked the beginning of round-the-clock surveillance by reporters. Over the next 20 months until his arrest, the president of a Tokyo-based furniture design and import company was the subject of TV gossip programs, magazines and newspapers. Miura figured he was the subject of about 25,000 stories.
"During the media onslaught, I was featured on about 15 different TV programs a day," Miura, 55, said in a recent interview with The Japan Times. "One of them even detailed my dinner menu, which they guessed from items I shopped for earlier in the day.