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\nJapanese authorities applied an 1889 anti-duelling law to arrest the man.
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Japanese authorities applied an 1889 anti-duelling law to arrest a man over a fight that resulted in his opponent’s death in Tokyo’s red light and entertainment district, police said Friday.<\/p>\n
The face-off took place on a street in September in the Kabukicho area of the capital after the suspect “and the dead man agreed to fight each other”, police spokesman Mitsuhiro Hirota told AFP.<\/p>\n
Tokyo police on Wednesday (local time) arrested Fuzuki Asari, 26, unemployed, on suspicion of having “conspired with someone else” to have a duel and causing injury resulting in the death of his 30-year-old adversary, Hirota said.<\/p>\n
The suspect “committed acts of violence such as throwing” the opponent, Naoya Matsuda, who “died on October 12 at a hospital in Tokyo… of multiple organ failure” caused by head injuries, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
The crime was investigated and announced by the Tokyo police’s organised crime control division, he said.<\/p>\n
It was not specified whether any weapons were involved in the fight.<\/p>\n
The 1889 law stipulates that “anyone who has engaged in a duel shall be punished by imprisonment for no less than two years and no more than five years”.<\/p>\n
The suspect’s other alleged crime – causing death from involuntary injury – would lead to no less than three years in prison, according to Japan’s criminal law.<\/p>\n
Although it is rare to apply the anti-duelling statute in Japan, there was a case in October when police in Gunma prefecture north of Tokyo arrested a high-school student and a man on suspicion of duelling, the Asahi Shimbun reported.<\/p>\n
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