Did the defendant shout, “Go to a door” in English, or “gōtō da” (This is a robbery) in Japanese?
That question formed the crux of a trial of an Australian man at the Tokyo District Court over a break-in in Shinjuku Ward that took place in June 2023.
On Friday, the court sentenced Daniel Mathew Otto, 32, to two years of jail time for breaking into a home in the ward and injuring an elderly man who lives there. The court did not convict him of robbery.
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