What do marijuana, Japan¡¯s military and convicted-acquitted-accused-again suspected wife-murderer Kazuyoshi Miura have in common? The possibly problematic extraterritorial application of Japanese law.
The late Miura¡¯s case seems to be the only one of the three where it has actually happened (so far). A Japanese businessman who traveled frequently to the U.S., Miura and his wife were attacked in 1981 in a Los Angeles parking lot by (he said) street thugs who shot him in the leg and his wife in the head.
Dramatically rushed back to Japan on a U.S. military jet, the wife lingered in a vegetative state for a year before dying, leaving Miura to collect the proceeds of a hefty life insurance policy. Then his porn-star lover gave a magazine interview indicating he may have procured his wife¡¯s murder.
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