MASHIKI, Kumamoto Prefecture Seven years later, part of the massive damage caused to this town by twin deadly earthquakes has not been repaired and will not be, for the foreseeable future.
Lawyers for a former Vietnamese technical intern trainee found guilty of abandoning the bodies of her stillborn twins argued at the Supreme Court that her conviction should be overturned because she intended to hold a funeral for them.
KUMAMOTO The district court has ordered the central government to pay compensation to a man and woman who were forcibly sterilized more than half a century ago under Japan’s now-defunct eugenics law.