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Ex-Sumitomo Mitsui Trust official guilty of insider trading
The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced a former employee of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to two years in prison, ...
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Japan Walk: Discover Ōta City (大田区, Ōta-ku) in Tokyo – A Hidden Gem
Explore Ōta City (Ōta-ku), a lesser-known district in Tokyo, Japan, in this immersive 4K walking tour. Wander through ...
Japan’s minority government faces a tough test in the upper house election
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...
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Japan hangs ‘Twitter killer’ in first execution since 2022
TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of ...
Japan executes man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering 9 people in his apartment
Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine ...
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Japanese court convicts a U.S. Marine in sexual assault, sentenced to 7 years in prison
A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...
Senior Tokyo police, prosecutor apologize to machinery maker over illegal probe
Two top Tokyo police and prosecution officials apologized in person to current and former executives of machinery maker ...
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Japan high court overturns Fukushima disaster compensation ruling
The incident had killed more than 180,000 people along Japan’s north-east coast. The Tokyo District Court in July 2022 ruled that the former executives were liable for compensation after finding that ...