The Los Angeles Police Department says a Japanese businessman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife in a downtown parking lot more than two decades ago.

JAPAN’S Emperor Akihito yesterday visited a cliff where his countrymen plunged to their deaths to avoid capture by US troops.

A strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 rocked Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido today, knocking out power, reportedly derailing a train and staring an industrial fire.