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		<title>Somali pirate trial lay judges felt global duty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Setsuko Kamiya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lay judges who sentenced two Somali pirates to 10 years in prison Friday said that while they had initial qualms about a case they considered foreign, they came to believe it was their duty as part of the international community to try the defendants. They also expressed hope that both Mohamed Urgus Adeysey, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court hands Somali pirates 10-year term</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tokyo District Court jails two Somali pirates for 10 years for trying to hijack an oil tanker operated by a Japanese company in the Indian Ocean in 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Schools to close but their songs go on</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Setsuko Kamiya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music has played an important role in easing the pain of many people in the Tohoku region whose lives were affected by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. But for Sendai-based violinist Satoko Sato and pianist Mitsuhiro Sakakibara, performing for the survivors is not the only way they can help. The duo have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somali pair admit trying to hijack ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first case prosecuted under Japan&#8217;s 2009 antipiracy law, two Somali men pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tokyo District Court to charges of boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahamas-registered tanker operated by a Japanese shipping company. The ship, sailing in the Indian Ocean off Oman, came under attack in March 2011. While acknowledging the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dismayed Tohoku faces first post-3/11 poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mere 15 minutes before Azuma Konno, a Democratic Party of Japan candidate running in Sunday&#8217;s Lower House election, was set to make a stump speech in front of JR Sendai Station last Friday evening, a 7.4-magnitude quake struck deep off Miyagi&#8217;s shore, flooding one coastal district with 1-meter-high tsunami. Konno immediately used his microphone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some election campaign rules outdated, quirky</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Hokkaido to Okinawa Prefecture, 1,504 candidates are campaigning for the 480 seats up for grabs in Sunday&#8217;s Lower House election. During the 12-day campaigning period, which officially began last Tuesday, the candidates must strictly follow the rules stipulated by the Public Offices Election Law. The problem is that some of the rules seem outdated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The undecided to play key role in poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terue Ishimura has yet to decide which party she will vote for in the Dec. 16 general election. But one thing is clear &#8212; she won&#8217;t be supporting the ruling Democratic Party of Japan again. Ishimura, a Saitama Prefecture resident in her 60s, voted for the DPJ in the 2009 general election, when the party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double jeopardy practice scrutinized</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent high-profile exonerations have reignited calls by defense lawyers to require the full disclosure of evidence, and to let verdicts handed down by lay judges stand. The lawyers for Nepalese Govinda Prasad Mainali, who on Nov. 7 was finally exonerated in absentia of a 1997 robbery-murder, went a step further and slammed the Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visa overstayers rally in Tokyo for residency permits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of foreign residents who have overstayed their visas rallied in Tokyo&#8217;s Ginza shopping district Sunday to call on the government to grant them special residency permits to remain in Japan and avoid disrupting the lives of their long-settled family members. Rally organizer Asian People&#8217;s Friendship Society said it wants to make more Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-aides want to be off the hook like Ozawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three former aides to Ichiro Ozawa on Wednesday urged the Tokyo High Court to reverse their guilty verdicts over the political money scandal involving the former Democratic Party of Japan president, saying they had no motive to conduct any wrongdoing. The move came two days after the high court ruled in favor of Ozawa, who [...]]]></description>
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