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US TRIAL

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
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
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...
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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