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MURDER

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 25, 2015
Japan executes convict for murdering woman in Nagoya
A 44-year-old convicted murderer was executed by hanging on Thursday after six years on death row, the first execution authorized by Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa since she acceded to the post last October.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015
Residents of South Carolina town once home to Charleston shooting suspect say they are not like him
At Dooley's Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015
Charleston shooting echoes 1963 Birmingham church murders that helped galvanize civil rights movement
Half a century ago in the deeply Southern city of Birmingham, a racially motivated attack on a black church left four young girls dead and helped galvanize a civil rights movement that changed voting laws across the United States.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
Slain Charleston pastor to blame for gun deaths, says National Rifle Association executive
A National Rifle Association executive in Texas has come under fire for suggesting that a South Carolina lawmaker and pastor who was slain with eight members of his congregation bears some of the blame for his opposition to permitting concealed handguns in church.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
South Carolina shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag at statehouse
The shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston has revived demands that South Carolina stop flying the Confederate flag on the grounds of the statehouse, an issue that still divides residents of a state haunted by its legacy of slavery.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
Obama says church shooting exposes 'blight' of racism, need for gun laws
President Barack Obama on Friday said a mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina exposed the "blight" of racism still present in America, and railed against critics who have accused him of politicizing a tragedy to talk about tougher gun laws.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Hate crimes are not uncommon in the United States
U.S. law enforcement authorities are investigating the slayings of nine people by a white gunman Wednesday night at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as a hate crime.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Charleston massacre suspect Roof had past brushes with police
His uncle worried he was cooped up in his room too much. The few images of him found easily online suggest he had a fascination with white supremacy. And for his birthday this year, his father bought the young man a pistol, the uncle said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 18, 2015
Publisher behind Kobe child killer's autobiography defends decision to go to print
Brushing aside mounting criticism, a Tokyo publisher has defended its decision to release a controversial autobiography penned by a former teenage serial killer, billing it as helpful to elucidate — and even deter — heinous juvenile crimes in society.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 17, 2015
Juvenile serial killer's book is best-seller, distributor says
Major book distributor Tohan Corp. has ranked a book by a former juvenile serial killer as its best-seller for last week.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 10, 2015
Kobe murderer writes ambiguously of regret and pleasure from 1997 child killings
The killer says in a controversial autobiography that he was an “incorrigible sexual deviant” who took grim satisfaction in dissecting animals and, ultimately, in murdering other humans.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 9, 2015
Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted cult leader Manson and 'family,' dies at 80
Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted cult leader Charles Manson and members of his so-called "family" for seven murders, then turned to writing books that took on everyone from George W. Bush to God, has died aged 80, his son said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 28, 2015
Coldest case? Spain cave yields 430,000-year-old murder mystery
This 430,000-year-old case may be the world's oldest murder mystery.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 22, 2015
Suspect at large in slaying of Missouri woman kept in a box
A Missouri woman who escaped captivity from a wooden box three weeks ago was found dead in a home on Thursday, along with her teenage son, and police are searching for the man suspected both of locking her up and killing her.
3D printer used to construct train station building in Japan
A train station building (front) is assembled from parts printed using 3D printer technology, in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Nissan says it will not take new U.S. orders for Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs
A Nissan manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Nissan says it will not take new orders from the United States for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs following new auto tariffs levied by the U.S.
Japan digs deep to address 'national crisis' caused by Trump tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on April 1. He has said that Japan is facing a "national crisis" following the introduction of new tariffs by the United States.
Tokyo’s KK Line to close for decadelong overhaul as public greenway
People enjoy running and yoga on Tokyo Expressway’s KK Line, a 2-kilometer elevated expressway cutting through the capital’s commercial Ginza district, when it was opened as a pedestrian space in May last year.
Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
‘Let’s make it practical’: NATO chief eyes greater defense-industrial ties with Japan
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte plans to visit Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday — his first to the Indo-Pacific region since taking office in October, as he seeks to implement lessons from the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.

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