Issei Sagawa, Japanese man who killed a woman in 1981, dies

Another writer Juro Kara won Japan's prestigious Akutagawa award in 1982 for his work, "Sagawa Kun Kara No Tegami" (Letters from Sagawa), which is based on the incident. "Caniba," a documentary film about the murder, was released in Japan in 2019. According to his family, Sagawa had been recuperating in recent years after suffering a stroke.