Tokyo High Court grants retrial to Nepalese man

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters surround the wife and two daughters of Govinda Prasad Mainali in front of the Tokyo High Court on June 7, 2012, after the court decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which the Nepalese man was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo.

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