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MURDER

WORLD
Mar 26, 2013
Berezovsky was 'down' but wouldn't bow to Putin: allies
Associates of exiled Russian oligarch and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky, who was found dead Saturday, questioned claims that he had begged President Vladimir Putin for forgiveness, but said he had been depressed and suicidal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 25, 2013
U.S. gun deaths — and tougher laws — shaped by race
Gun deaths are shaped by race in the United States: Whites are far more likely to shoot themselves, and blacks are far more likely to be shot by someone else.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2013
'82 Pan Am bomber who killed boy freed
Mohammed Rashed, who placed a bomb that damaged a Pan Am jet over the Pacific in 1982, killing a Japanese high schooler, was released from federal prison Wednesday, a U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.
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 Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 19, 2013
A violent death, some justice, few answers in Furlong case
Bad guys rarely live up to their reputation, and so it was with James Blackston. Portrayed in the Irish media as a fearsome, muscle-bound rapper, in court he was a diminutive, baby-faced figure, his tattoos covered up by a cheap prison suit, mumbling his way through an incomprehensible defense for sexual...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 19, 2013
Furlong's mother: 'I don't expect to ever, ever learn the truth'
Angela Furlong is trying to recall her darkest point in the trial of the man accused of murdering her daughter. Was it the moment she faced him in court after months of living in dread?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 16, 2013
Trainee admits double-killing at fish firm, says colleagues mistreated him
Police comb a fishery company in Hiroshima Prefecture where a 30-year-old Chinese trainee allegedly murdered the president and a female employee and wounded six others.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2013
Term of up to 10 years urged for minor in Furlong killing
Prosecutors demand five to 10 years imprisonment for an American on trial for allegedly killing an Irish exchange student in Tokyo last May.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 12, 2013
Tattooer gets 19 years for killing Nepalese in Osaka
The Osaka District Court sentences a 22-year-old man to 19 years in prison for beating a Nepalese resident to death in an unprovoked attack on a street in the city of Osaka in January last year.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Life term stands in Mazda rampage
Rejecting his appeal, the Hiroshima High Court on Monday upheld a life term for a man convicted of a 2010 driving rampage at a Mazda Motor Corp. complex in Hiroshima Prefecture that killed one employee and injured 11 others.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 9, 2013
Killer of female student in Romania given life
A Romanian court sentenced a man to life imprisonment Thursday for the rape and murder of a Japanese university student last August, two separate slayings and other crimes, the national news agency Agerpres reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 7, 2013
Ex-con's retrial bid over girl's '86 murder refused
An appeal for a retrial by a man who served a seven-year jail term for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl is turned down by the Nagoya High Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 5, 2013
Minor denies slaying woman after Tokyo concert
A U.S. minor pleads not guilty to charges of murdering an Irish exchange student in a Tokyo hotel last May as his Tokyo District Court trial starts.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 4, 2013
Japanese businessman shot to death in Cambodia during street robbery
A Japanese businessman was shot to death during a robbery early Sunday on a street in Phnom Penh, local police reported.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 3, 2013
Boy, 18, held over Kichijoji murder
An 18-year-old youth is arrested over the robbery-murder of a woman in Tokyo's Kichijoji district after turning himself in to police and confessing to the slaying.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 2, 2013
Youth, 17, admits killing woman on street in Kichijoji
A 17-year-old Romanian in custody admitted Friday that he was involved in the robbery-slaying of a woman on a street in Tokyo's Kichijoji area and was promptly served an arrest warrant for the crime, police said, adding they are also looking for his 18-year-old Japanese alleged accomplice.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2013
Third victim in Guam attack dies in the hospital
A Japanese man hospitalized following a knife and vehicle attack in Guam dies, raising the death toll to three.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2013
Killing spree struck one family hard
Rie Sugiyama, 28, killed in a stabbing spree Tuesday on Guam, had been looking forward to her younger brother's wedding ceremony in the U.S. territory scheduled for Thursday — Valentine's Day.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2013
Guam suspect never violent, friend says
For a former schoolmate of Chad Ryan De Soto, the news about the 21-year-old allegedly driving his car into and stabbing Japanese tourists Tuesday night in a Guam tourist area was shocking not only because it was so horrible, but also because it was not in his character, the friend said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2013
Navy SEAL author of 'American Sniper' shot dead
He said he killed 160 people, perhaps many more, making him one of the leading U.S. military snipers of all time. In the course of four combat deployments to Iraq, he said insurgents nicknamed him "the devil of Ramadi" and placed a $20,000 bounty on his head.

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