A former Japanese businessman charged with serial rape and killing two foreign women, including Briton Lucie Blackman in 2000, faces a court verdict on Tuesday in a case experts call the worst sex crime in Japanese history.
Former property developer Joji Obara, 54, is charged with total of 10 cases of rape, including drugging, raping and killing Blackman, a 21-year-old former British Airw...
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Jarvis wrote on April 21, 2007 8:05 PM:"Suze, maybe you would be comfortable in Clearlake, where a large part of the population is unable to hold arms because of their meth convictions. Then you can take a knife...
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TOKYO, April 21 (Yonhap) -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday expressed regrets that his country's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II.
The remark, made in an interview with a weekly U.S. news magazine on the eve of his visit to the United States, may be aimed at mending fences. The premier has been criticized for claiming there is no evidence that ...
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Police stormed an apartment Saturday and seized a suspected gangster who had barricaded himself inside after a deadly shooting in the streets of a Tokyo suburb. Officials said the incident may be a sign of infighting in a Japanese underworld group.
The violence came days after the mayor of Nagasaki was gunned down by a reputed mobster in an unrelated killing. Crime syndicates are overwhel...
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The violence came days after the mayor of Nagasaki was gunned down by a reputed mobster in an unrelated killing. Crime syndicates are overwhelmingly responsible for Japan's rare gun attacks.
The events began Friday when the suspected gangster allegedly shot and killed another mobster from the same group on the street in a western suburb of Tokyo, police said.
The shooter, identifie...
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You New Zealanders are an ignorant bunch, quick to point fingers at the US. New Zealanders are stuck between trying to find their own identity and role in the world and in particular the South Pacific, while at the same time trying to keep up with the Aussies. You're quick to judge but lack the true experience of a free modern day society. You remain neutral and have faced neither glory nor do...