The Supreme Court is expected early next year to rule on the appeal of a 42-year-old man sentenced to hang for murdering four girls in Tokyo and Saitama prefectures in 1988 and 1989.
The Tokyo District Court sentenced Tsutomu Miyazaki to hang for abducting and killing the girls, aged between 4 and 7, and mutilating two of the corpses. The Tokyo High Court upheld the sentence.
The top court has said it will hear the case on Nov. 22.