Man arrested in connection with murder of wife in 1981

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.

Officials say 60-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura was arrested on Friday in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. Cold case detectives from the LAPD were working with authorities there.

Police say Miura faces extradition to the US.

The crime caused an international furore in the early 1980s.

Miura and his 28-year-old wife Kazumi were shot in a downtown Los Angeles parking lot in November 1981.

He was hit in the right leg. She was shot in the head and died in a Japanese hospital a year later.

Miura caused an international furore when he blamed the attack on street robbers. He was acquitted of murdering his wife in Japan.