Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident.

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