Trial opens in murder of 2-year-old girl

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on March 6 to get seats by the drawings of lots at the first hearing of the trial of a 36-year-old housewife charged with slaying a 2-year-old Tokyo girl and burying her body in November. Mitsuko Yamada, a mother of two, is accused of strangling Haruna Wakayama, an acquaintance's daughter, with a scarf in a public toilet in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 22.

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