Nepalese man returns home for 1st time in 18 yrs

Nepalese man returns home for 1st time in 18 yrs

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (R), the Nepalese man convicted in a 1997 Tokyo murder case, is reunited with his 79-year-old mother Chandrakala at Kathmandu's airport on June 16, 2012, upon his return home for the first time in 18 years after a Japanese court granted him a retrial.

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