Japan news 26/2

Old man freed after being held hostage by son

• Arrest warrant says Miura orchestrated wife's killing in Los Angeles
• Sony tying up with Sharp in TV displays
• Group with Google and others building cross-Pacific Broadband cable
• Fukui Prefecture tops for putting women in charge of public schools
• Man jailed 7 years for suffocating baby son
• Corrupt legislator Muneo Suzuki loses appeal against 2-year prison term for graft
• Murder-suicide in Osaka hotel claims three lives
• Teen hospitalized after swallowing fishing hook left in convenience store burger
• City to give 'Super Seniors' special reward payments
• Yakuza drug smuggler facing life behind bars vanishes from unguarded hospital
• 'Cat's Eye' burglar band of women collared in Osaka
• Fuchu Prison inmate commits suicide with chopstick