99年主婦殺害、夫が賠償請求　名古屋地裁、民法の規定どう判断（共同通信） - Yahoo!ニュース

This page reports that the husband of a housewife killed in Nagoya in 1999 filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the defendant who was arrested last October. A major issue in the case is the "extinction period" under civil law, which extinguishes the right to claim damages 20 years after the tort. The plaintiff argues that excluding the lawsuit is contrary to justice, as the perpetrator was only recently identified. He hopes to establish a pathway allowing bereaved families of unsolved cases to pursue compensation claims even after 20 years.