Linkups: Japanese News
Marine in Okinawa rape case released - Reuters
A U.S. Marine arrested earlier this month on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl was released by Japanese authorities on Friday, a spokesman for the U.S. military on the southern island of Okinawa said.
Death penalty for man who abducted, raped, burned woman alive upheld - Breitbart.com
According to the 2005 decision by the Tokyo High Court, Hattori abducted the junior college student, aged 19 at that time, from a street in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, late at night on Jan. 22, He abducted her in his car and raped her. Later, he poured oil over her and set her alight with a cigarette lighter in a mountainous area.
Japan pooh-poohs China’s Olympic crappers - Mainichi WaiWai
Japanese are rightfully proud of their toilet engineering feats, and Shukan Asahi (2/29) takes a high-handed approach to dump on neighboring China about the standard of its restrooms at facilities to be used in this summer’s Beijing Olympic Games.
Ex-sumo stablemaster, 3 other wrestlers indicted for deadly assault - Mainichi
Law enforcers have concluded that Takashi Saito, 17, whose ring name was Tokitaizan, died as a result of being brutally assaulted by Yamamoto and the three senior wrestlers on June 25 and 26 last year as punishment for running away from the stable.
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