The disclosures come in a book released Wednesday and written from jail by Tatsuya Ichihashi, who will stand trial later this year in the murder and rape of his English teacher, Lindsay Ann Hawker.

Ichihashi's book, titled 'Until I was Arrested' was released in Japan earlier this year, and is a declaration of his "contrition", according to his lawyerCredit: AP ...

A movie based on the book written by Tatsuya Ichihashi, whose slaying of a British English teacher in 2007 set off a nationwide manhunt, will debut next year, the publisher and film producer said ...

Tatsuya Ichihashi, the man suspected of murdering British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker in Tokyo, has admitted raping and strangling her at the first day of his trial Credit: PA Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32 ...

Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32, was arrested in November 2009, more than two-and-a-half years after he evaded police officers who called at his apartment in the Gyotoku district of western Tokyo.