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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (R bottom, in a black suit), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, shakes hands with a supporter, with his wife Radha sitting next to him, aboard an airplane ahead of departure from Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. To the left is their daughter Mithila. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R), the wife of Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, and their daughters Mithila (L) and Alisha (C), meet the press at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, gets off a bus while surrounded by immigration officials, near an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, gets off a bus while surrounded by immigration officials, near an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, climbs up the stairs into an airplane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Mainali leaves Japan for Nepal

NARITA, Japan - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man granted a retrial over a 1997 Tokyo murder case, shakes hands with a supporter, with his wife Radha sitting next to him, aboard an airplane ahead of departure from Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 15, 2012. After spending 15 years in prison, Mainali, 45, left Japan to return to his home country for the first time in about 18 years, accompanied by his wife Radha, 42, and their two daughters Mithila, 20, and Alisha, 18, as well as Japanese supporters.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her second daughter Alisha and eldest daughter Mithila are interviewed in Yokohama on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Alisha and Mithila's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali, at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 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. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) leave the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, after meeting Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 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. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - (From L) Radha Mainali and her daughters Mithila and Alisha visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 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. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Family of Nepalese man

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Radha Mainali (R, front row) and her daughters Mithila (L, front row) and Alisha (C, front row) visit the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau's Yokohama office on June 8, 2012, to meet Radha's husband, and Mithila and Alisha's father, Govinda Prasad Mainali. The Tokyo High Court on June 7 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. Mainali was released and handed over to the immigration bureau's Yokohama office later that day.

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Tokyo High Court grants retrial to Nepalese man

TOKYO, Japan - Radha Mainali (2nd from R, front row) and her eldest daughter Mithila (R, front row) and second daughter Alisha (3rd from R, front row) pose for photos in front of the Tokyo High Court on June 7, 2012, after hearing that the court decided to reopen a high-profile murder case in which Govinda Prasad Mainali, Radha's husband and Mithila and Alisha's father, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Japanese woman in 1997 in Tokyo.

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Inmate's kin

NARITA, Japan - (from L) Radha, wife of murder case inmate Govinda Prasad Mainali, and her daughters Mithila and Alisha arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on June 6, 2012. They visited Japan as the Tokyo High Court plans to issue a decision on June 7 on whether to open a retrial for the Nepalese man serving a life sentence for killing a Japanese woman in Tokyo in 1997. The man denies the killing in a high-profile case in which the victim was working as a prostitute as well as at the then blue-chip Tokyo Electric Power Co.