Midfielder Naoya Kikuchi, who was released by J. League club Jubilo Iwata last summer after he was arrested for having sex with a 15-year-old girl, is set to join German second-division club FC Carl Zeiss Jena, it was learned Tuesday. Kikuchi has been on trial at Jena and the club’s official Web site quoted a senior Jena official as saying he “made a strong impression.” Kikuchi, 23, was arrested in June after he admitted to having sex with the high school student in a car in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in late May, violating a law prohibiting sex with those under 18 years of age.
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Visa violators continue sit-in at Immigration
by Tomohiro Osaki
A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...