Many foreign workers head for Japan with the promise of a better life. But for Govinda Prasad Mainali the dream turned to tragedy as he awaits a ruling by the Supreme Court over a murder charge.
It was in a cell, far from his homeland of Nepal, that he saw his wife, Radha, for the first time in eight years.
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