LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A hearing on whether to throw out an arrest warrant for a Japanese businessman in the 1980s murder of his wife has been postponed until several documents are translated.

In a Thursday order, Superior Court Judge Steven R. Van Sicklen says three exhibits are in Japanese and need to be translated before the hearing.

No new date was not set for the hearing, originally scheduled for April 2.

The 60-year-old Miura was arrested last month in the U.S. territory of Saipan and Los Angeles authorities are seeking his extradition.

In 1981, he was shot in the leg and his wife was shot in the head in Los Angeles. Kazumi Miura, 28, died the following year in Japan. Los Angeles police initially accepted Miura's story of being shot by robbers but later became convinced he conspired with someone to have his wife killed to collect life insurance.

Miura was convicted in Japan of murdering his wife, but that verdict was overturned by the country's high courts 10 years ago.

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