A man charged with fatally shooting a doctor and attacking medical staff who visited his home near Tokyo last year denied on Thursday that he had intended to kill them.
TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The family of a junior high school student in Japan who killed herself in 2017 was awarded 330,000 yen (US$2,500) by a district court, after they filed a lawsuit against the girl’s former classmates.
The Saitama District Court has sentenced a 30-year-old woman to 6 1/2 years in prison after she was found guilty of neglecting her 3-month-old daughter and not seeking medical attention, causing her death in September 2020, in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. Azusa Kanai and her husband Yuki Kanai, 31, were arrested…
A 30-year-old woman went on trial Monday on a charge of neglecting her 3-month-old daughter and not seeking medical attention, causing her death in September 2020, in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. Azusa Kanai and her husband Yuki Kanai, 31, were arrested in January 2021 on suspicion of parental neglect resulting in…
The Saitama District Court has sentenced a 60-year-old man to 15 years in prison for killing the 46-year-old woman with whom he was in a relationship, in 2020. Prosecutors had sought an 18-year prison term for Terumasa Watabe who was convicted of killing Manami Kumada at his apartment in Midori…