A 49-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering, dismembering and dumping the bodies of two Filipino bar hostesses in 1999 and 2008, but his attorneys, contradicting him, said they will fight to prove his innocence in the 1999 slaying even though he did time for chopping up the victim.
Lawyers claimed the prosecution's case in the earlier slaying is only based on Hiroshi Nozaki's confession and lacks hard evidence.
At the opening of his Tokyo District Court murder trial, Hiroshi Nozaki confessed to murdering 22-year-old Honeifaith Ratila Kamiosawa at their apartment in the Daiba district of Minato Ward, Tokyo, in April 2008.