The owner of a building in Shinjuku, Tokyo, gutted in a fire in 2001 withheld entering a plea Thursday on charges of professional negligence resulting in death.
Five others, who were managing the building or working in it as managers, pleaded not guilty to the same charge. The blaze took the lives of 44 people.
All six men are blaming each other.
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