… but not for the erroneous murder accusation. Mainichi.jp recently falsely accused a man of murder. Pension Bureau official Kenji Yoshihara was stabbed to death on November 18. His wife, Yasuko, was also critically injured in the attack. The attack is believed to be related to the murders of another former Pension Bureau official, Takehiko […]
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Mainichi, one of Japan’s news media giants published a story yesterday accusing a Japanese man of the murder of a former Health Ministry official from the Pension Bureau (an expert on the pension problem in Japan). Kenji Yoshihara and his wife Yasuko were attacked at their home in Tokyo on Tuesday, November 18th. The attacker
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Kazuyoshi Miura, facing charges of murder conspiracy in the death of his wife, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in Los Angeles. Miura is accused of being involved in the shooting death of his wife Kazumi in Los Angeles in November 1981. Miura served some time in prison in Japan
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A British man living in Spain, visiting Japan with a group of eight people was arrested for swimming around in the moat at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, climbing some rock walls, as well as threatening and evading police. He was completely naked at the time. You can watch the video below… you have to
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Three students at Kyoto Sangyo University have also been given warnings after more Japanese graffiti was discovered at Florence Cathedral. One of the students gave excuses saying that he was so excited to be at a place he so respected, and since there was other graffiti there as well, he just went ahead and wrote.
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Six Japanese junior college students during a trip to Italy wrote graffiti and their names on the wall of the Florence Cathedral (the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore). It says February 18, 2008 with their names: Mana, Chii, Yui, Ayana, Rika, and Miki, then they even wrote the name of their school! Gifu City
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Briefly put, Hiroshi Nozaki recently arrested for killing a young Filipina woman has informed police of the whereabouts of the body of a 27 year old woman he killed in 1999. He had been arrested and served time in jail for the 1999 case, however since there was no body, he was put away for
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Hiroshi Nozaki got away with murder 9 years ago. He killed a Filipina woman, denied having killed her, and in the end was only sentenced to serve 3 and a half years for mutilation and disposal of a corpse. Because very little of the body was found, Saitama Prefecture police decided not to try the
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Just a few brief notes about recent news stories that have come out. More message board posts from Kato have been found recently describing such things as The type of girl he likes His frustrations at not having a girlfriend By now everyone has seen translations of some of his message board posts describing each
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Some updates on the case… Workers reported that his company was planning on restructuring and his contract had been extended to the end of August, but one day when he came in to work and his wok clothes were missing from his locker he flipped out. He seems to have thought that the company was
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The perpetrator, Tomohiro Kato, said that he just wanted to kill people, he didn’t care who. The Akihabara area is famous for computers, electronics, mangas, anime figures, maid cafes, and “otaku” culture in general. For plenty of photos of the happenings, feel free to visit this site (a news blog on livedoor) for lots of
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At 12:30pm today in Tokyo’s well-known Akihabara area a 25 year old man went on a rampage leaving 14 men and 3 women injured or dead. One police officer is also among the injured. A 25 year old man first drove into pedestrians with a rental car, then got out and began stabbing people with
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