Overview
- The Tokyo District Court found Fujita, 41, guilty on charges including robbery resulting in death, matching prosecutors’ request for a life term.
- Judges concluded he conspired with Kiyoto Imamura and Yuki Watanabe to remotely dispatch perpetrators to a Komae home in January 2023.
- Intruders posed as parcel deliverers, stole valuables including watches, and the 90-year-old resident died from traumatic shock.
- According to the indictment, Fujita was involved in seven robberies in Tokyo and three other prefectures between October 2022 and January 2023.
- Prosecutors portrayed him as profiting while using subordinates as disposable tools, the defense claimed he was subordinate and unpaid, and separate cases for Imamura and Watanabe are still pending while Tomonobu Kojima’s 20-year sentence is on appeal.