Bt2m reward for information leading to arrest of Japanese tourist’s murderer

The Department of Special Investigation has offered a reward of 2 million baht to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of the killer of a Japanese tourist 17 years ago.

The announcement was made today via the department’s Facebook page and is the latest effort by Thai law enforcement to find the killer of Tomoko Kawashita, whose body was found in a temple compound in Sukhothai province in 2007.

Her throat had been cut and her belongings were missing, leading police to suspect that she had been a victim of a robbery gone wrong.

The victim’s still grieving father, Yasuaki, is now in Thailand again to demand progress in the DSI’s investigation into the unsolved murder of his daughter.

Before the outbreak of COVID-19, he returned to Thailand almost every year in his quest to find his daughter’s killer. This year, he arrived last weekend and revisited the site…