Separators are often added to benches in public spaces in Japan to prevent the homeless from lying down on them to sleep. | GETTY IMAGES In the early morning hours of Nov. 16, a 46-year-old man allegedly struck a 64-year-old woman sitting in a Tokyo bus shelter in the head with a bag of rocks, killing her. On Nov. 21, the man, accompanied by his mother, turned himself in to the police, who charged