Japan gov't faces damages over Ghanaian man's death

TOKYO, Japan - A portrait of Abubakar Awudu Suraj is held by his widow who was heading for the Tokyo District Court on March 19, 2014. The court ordered the Japanese government to pay about 5 million yen in damages over the death of the Ghanaian man in 2010 while he was being deported from Narita airport near Tokyo. His Japanese wife requested that a photo of her face not be published.

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