Mainali to leave Japan on June 15 for Nepal

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kamiyama (R), who headed a group of lawyers for Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder, holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 14, 2012. Earlier the same day it was decided Mainali will leave Japan on June 15 to return to Kathmandu for the first time in about 18 years. Kamiyama said he is "greatly relieved" and praised Mainali's inner strength that enabled him to endure 15 years of imprisonment in Japan.

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