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Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2014
Guam rampage trial delayed by psych claim
The trial over a vehicular rampage and stabbing spree on Guam a year ago that left three Japanese dead and several others injured has yet to begin after the defendant waived his right to a speedy trial and claimed mental illness as his defense.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 12, 2014
Accused hacker: 'I'm innocent'
The man accused of hacking other people's computers to make a series of violent threats in 2012 maintains his “absolute innocence” as his trial opens at the Tokyo District Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 3, 2014
Death-row cultist puts Hirata in kidnap frame
A condemned Aum Shinrikyo killer testified Monday against ex-fugitive cultist Makoto Hirata, contradicting the defendant's claim that he was not aware before the fact that he was going to help in the 1995 abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 31, 2014
Kindergartners' tsunami deaths hearing begins
Oral proceedings started Friday at the Sendai High Court in an appeal filed by a school against damages it was ordered to pay in connection with the March 11, 2011, tsunami deaths of four pupils aboard one of its buses, and both sides also agreed to pursue settlement negotiations.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 24, 2013
Member of deadly Japanese cult will go on trial Jan. 16
The Tokyo District Court has decided that the trial of Makoto Hirata, a former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult accused of helping abduct a Tokyo notary clerk in 1995, will begin Jan. 16.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 8, 2013
Guam court grants rampage suspect second psychological evaluation
A court on Guam on Thursday said it will allow a psychologist to re-examine the man charged with killing three Japanese tourists and wounding 11 other people in a vehicular and knife rampage in February.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2013
Test of Mount Fuji fee collection called success
Yamanashi and Shizuoka took in more than ¥34 million from climbers willing to pay a fee to scale Mount Fuji, which straddles the prefectures, during a 10-day trial period this summer, prefectural officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 30, 2013
Dumpling poisoner faces stiff sentence
A Chinese man admits putting poison in frozen 'gyoza' dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan 5½ years ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 27, 2013
Man to hang over Osaka murders
The Osaka District Court on Wednesday sentenced a 46-year-old man to death after a lay judge trial convicted him in the 2004 slaying of an elderly couple in the victims' home.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 12, 2013
Triple slayer gets death sentence for boyfriend schemes
A man was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing three people in Yamagata Prefecture and Tokyo in 2010 and 2011.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 11, 2013
Will the BBC learn anything from the Stuart Hall sex scandal?
The first Tuesday in May was an awkward day for BBC newsreaders. Once again the main headlines were dominated by scandals within their own institution. One of their most well-known presenters had admitted to 14 indecent assaults on 13 victims aged as young as 9, and a report was published citing "a strong undercurrent of fear" that stopped BBC employees speaking out about sexual harassment or bullying.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 21, 2013
Guam court sets another pretrial hearing for murder rampage case
A Guam court set another pretrial hearing Wednesday for a local man charged with slaying three Japanese tourists and wounding 11 other people in a vehicular and knife rampage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 20, 2013
U.S. minor gets five to 10 years for strangling Furlong
An American minor is handed an indefinite prison term of between five and 10 years for killing an Irish exchange student last May.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 29, 2013
12-year term urged in Somalis' piracy trial
Prosecutors on Monday demanded 12-year prison terms for two Somalis being tried on charges of boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahama-registered oil tanker operated by a Japanese company in the Indian Ocean in 2011.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 16, 2013
Somali pair admit trying to hijack ship
In the first case prosecuted under Japan'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.

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