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The Chiba District Court has sentenced a 37-year-old man to 17 years in prison after he was convicted of killing a 21-year-old university student in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, last year. According to the ruling on Friday, Yoichiro Saito, a transport company worker, fatally stabbed Kensuke Iwamoto multiple times in the…
The Chiba District Court has sentenced a 49-year-old man to 21 years in prison for fatally stabbing his 32-year-old wife in 2020, even though her body has never been found. In handing down the ruling against Akira Ono, who lived in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Presiding Judge Yoshihisa Nakao said that…
The Supreme Court settled the issue of compensation for around 3,700 people forced to evacuate from their homes due to the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011 by ordering Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the stricken facility, to pay about 1.4 billion yen ($12.2 million) in damages.
In the incident, a truck ran into a line of children walking home from school in Yachimata in June last year, killing two boys and severely injuring three other children.