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Retrial of man over 1986 murder

KANAZAWA, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Supporters and attorneys of Shoshi Maekawa, who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student, hold up banners announcing his acquittal in a retrial in front of the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court in Ishikawa Prefecture, on July 18, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Retrial of man over 1986 murder

Supporters and attorneys of Shoshi Maekawa, who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student, hold up banners announcing his acquittal in a retrial in front of the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court in Ishikawa Prefecture, on July 18, 2025.

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Retrial of man over 1986 murder

Shoshi Maekawa (C), who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student, walks with his supporters and attorneys to the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court in Ishikawa Prefecture, on July 18, 2025, ahead of the ruling in his retrial.

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Japan court orders retrial of man over 1986 schoolgirl murder

Shoshi Maekawa (front), who served a seven-year prison sentence over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture, reacts in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2024, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court ordered a retrial.

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Japan court orders retrial of man over 1986 schoolgirl murder

Shoshi Maekawa, who served a seven-year prison sentence over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture, speaks during a press conference in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2024, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court ordered a retrial.

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Japan court orders retrial of man over 1986 schoolgirl murder

Shoshi Maekawa (C), who served a seven-year prison sentence over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture, speaks to reporters in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2024, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court ordered a retrial.

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High court turns down plea for retrial over 1986 murder case

NAGOYA, Japan - Shoji Maekawa (R) and his father Reizo come out of the Nagoya High Court in Nagoya on March 6, 2013, after the court turned down an appeal for a retrial filed by Shoji Maekawa, who served a seven-year prison term for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in Fukui Prefecture.

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Retrial granted in 1986 Fukui girl murder case

NANTO, Japan - Shoji Maekawa, who served out a 7-year prison term for killing a junior high school girl, speaks during a press conference in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2011, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court decided the same day to open a retrial into the 1986 murder case in Fukui Prefecture.

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Ex-sumo master's 6-yr term cut to 5 yrs over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito speaks to reporters in Nagoya on April 5, 2010, after the Nagoya High Court sentenced former sumo stable master Junichi Yamamoto to five years in prison for physical abuse that led to the death of Saito's 17-year-old son Takashi in 2007. According to the ruling, Yamamoto hit Takashi, whose ring name was Tokitaizan, with a beer bottle during dinner on June 25, 2007, and let three senior wrestlers at the stable beat him with a wooden stick later that day.

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Ex-sumo master's 6-yr term cut to 5 yrs over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito speaks to reporters in Nagoya on April 5, 2010, after the Nagoya High Court sentenced former sumo stable master Junichi Yamamoto to five years in prison for physical abuse that led to the death of Saito's 17-year-old son Takashi in 2007. According to the ruling, Yamamoto hit Takashi, whose ring name was Tokitaizan, with a beer bottle during dinner on June 25, 2007, and let three senior wrestlers at the stable beat him with a wooden stick later that day.

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Ex-sumo stablemaster given 6-yr prison over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - This Feb. 7, 2008 file photo shows the ring in the building in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, that the Tokitsukaze sumo stable used as a temporary lodging before a July 2007 tournament in Nagoya. The Nagoya District Court ruled May 29 that a former stablemaster was involved in fatal violence against a 17-year-old wrestler in the ring in June 2007.

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2 men sentenced to death for killing woman

NAGOYA, Japan - Fumiko Isogai, the mother of 31-year-old company employee Rie Isogai, speaks during a news conference in Nagoya on March 18 after the Nagoya District Court sentenced two men to death and one to life in prison for murdering Rie in 2007 in a crime that caught public attention as an Internet site was used to attract ''crime mates.''

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3 wrestlers get suspended terms for fatal hazing of teen stablemate

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito answers questions from reporters outside the Nagoya District Court on Dec. 18 after the local court sentenced three sumo wrestlers, who were stablemates of his son, Takashi, also a sumo wrestler, to two-and-a-half to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for fatally hazing the 17-year-old last year in Aichi Prefecture.

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Death row inmate writing cards stressing innocence

NAGOYA, Japan - Death row inmate Masaru Okunishi sent this New Year's greeting card to Shozo Ino, a supporter who is allowed to meet with him in prison.

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Masaru Okunishi, on death row since '72, to get retrial

NAGOYA, Japan - The Nagoya High Court decided April 5 to allow a retrial for Masaru Okunishi, who has been on death row since 1972 when he was convicted of murdering five women in a wine poisoning case in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, in 1961, citing new evidence that could prove his innocence. Photo shows his lawyers entering a Nagoya prison to inform Okunishi of the court decision.

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Nagoya Prison officer indicted over inmate's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Atsushi Nakayama (C), chief warden at Nagoya Prison, and his aides bow in apology at a news conference March 4 after a deputy chief warden was indicted on charges of assault resulting in the death of a male inmate at the prison in 2001.

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Opposition parties urge Moriyama to resign over prison case

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listens to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda durikng a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Feb. 19. Four opposition parties agreed earlier in the day to urge Moriyama to resign over what they allege as the ministry's cover-up of the death of a male inmate in December 2001 at Nagoya Prison.

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5 Nagoya jailers indicted on charges of prisoner abuse

NAGOYA, Japan - Chishu Sakurai, head of Nagoya Prison, bows to reporters in the town of Miyoshi, Aichi Prefecture, on Nov. 27 after five prison officers were indicted by prosecutors on charges of inflicting serious injuries on an inmate.

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Inmate's alleged abuse at Nagoya Prison to be probed

NAGOYA, Japan - Prosecutors will begin investigating several officials at Nagoya Prison (shown in photo) in connection with the alleged abuse of a prisoner in September, sources close to the case said Nov. 8. The officials are suspected of attacking the 30-year-old male inmate Sept. 25 when placing him in solitary confinement due to unruly behavior, the sources said.

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Ex-minister Sato gets 16-month prison term for salary fraud

NAGOYA, Japan - Former home affairs minister Kanju Sato walks into the Nagoya District Court on Sept. 9. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison for defrauding the state of some 17 million yen paid as salary for a secretary who never worked for him. Sato later appealed the ruling. (Kyodo)

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Masaru Okunishi, on death row since '72, to get retrial

NAGOYA, Japan - The Nagoya High Court decided April 5 to allow a retrial for Masaru Okunishi, who has been on death row since 1972 when he was convicted of murdering five women in a wine poisoning case in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, in 1961, citing new evidence that could prove his innocence. Photo shows his lawyers entering a Nagoya prison to inform Okunishi of the court decision. (Kyodo)

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Yacht school head taken into custody to serve jail term

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Totsuka, chief of a yacht training school for problem children and youths, heads for the Nagoya High Public Prosecutors Office on March 29 to be taken into custody by prosecutors. Totsuka will serve a six-year prison term for physical abuse that led to the deaths of at least two ''trainees'' in the 1980s. His appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court last month.

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Nagoya Prison officer indicted over inmate's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Atsushi Nakayama (C), chief warden at Nagoya Prison, and his aides bow in apology at a news conference March 4 after a deputy chief warden was indicted on charges of assault resulting in the death of a male inmate at the prison in 2001. (Kyodo)

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Driver convicted in Japan's 1st "Pokemon Go"-linked car accident death

Young people play the "Pokemon Go" smartphone game in Nagoya in this file photo taken on July 22, 2016. Keiji Goo, the driver involved in the first vehicle accident fatality in Japan linked to playing the game, was sentenced by the Tokushima District Court on Oct. 31, 2016, to 14 months in prison. Prosecutors had sought 20 months in prison. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-sumo stablemaster given 6-yr prison over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Junichi Yamamoto (in this file photo), a former stablemaster of the Tokitsukaze stable, is sentenced by the Nagoya District Court May 29 to six years in prison for telling wrestlers at his stable to haze and beat a 17-year-old wrestler who died from the injuries in June 2007. (Kyodo)

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Ex-sumo stablemaster released on bail

NAGOYA, Japan - Junichi Yamamoto, a former Tokitsukaze sumo stablemaster, is released on bail from the Nagoya detention house on May 29 after the Nagoya District Court sentenced him to six years in prison earlier in the day over physical abuse that led to the death of a 17-year-old wrestler in 2007. (Kyodo)

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Ex-sumo stablemaster given 6-yr prison over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - This Feb. 7, 2008 file photo shows the ring in the building in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, that the Tokitsukaze sumo stable used as a temporary lodging before a July 2007 tournament in Nagoya. The Nagoya District Court ruled May 29 that a former stablemaster was involved in fatal violence against a 17-year-old wrestler in the ring in June 2007. (Kyodo)

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Ex-sumo master's 6-yr term cut to 5 yrs over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito speaks to reporters in Nagoya on April 5, 2010, after the Nagoya High Court sentenced former sumo stable master Junichi Yamamoto to five years in prison for physical abuse that led to the death of Saito's 17-year-old son Takashi in 2007. According to the ruling, Yamamoto hit Takashi, whose ring name was Tokitaizan, with a beer bottle during dinner on June 25, 2007, and let three senior wrestlers at the stable beat him with a wooden stick later that day. (Kyodo)

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Ex-sumo master's 6-yr term cut to 5 yrs over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito speaks to reporters in Nagoya on April 5, 2010, after the Nagoya High Court sentenced former sumo stable master Junichi Yamamoto to five years in prison for physical abuse that led to the death of Saito's 17-year-old son Takashi in 2007. According to the ruling, Yamamoto hit Takashi, whose ring name was Tokitaizan, with a beer bottle during dinner on June 25, 2007, and let three senior wrestlers at the stable beat him with a wooden stick later that day. (Kyodo)

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2 men sentenced to death for killing woman

NAGOYA, Japan - Fumiko Isogai, the mother of 31-year-old company employee Rie Isogai, speaks during a news conference in Nagoya on March 18 after the Nagoya District Court sentenced two men to death and one to life in prison for murdering Rie in 2007 in a crime that caught public attention as an Internet site was used to attract ''crime mates.'' (Kyodo)

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3 wrestlers get suspended terms for fatal hazing of teen stablema

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito answers questions from reporters outside the Nagoya District Court on Dec. 18 after the local court sentenced three sumo wrestlers, who were stablemates of his son, Takashi, also a sumo wrestler, to two-and-a-half to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for fatally hazing the 17-year-old last year in Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Ex-DPJ lawmaker sentenced to suspended 2-year prison term

NAGOYA, Japan - The Nagoya District Court on Dec. 16 sentences former Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Kenji Kobayashi (file photo) to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for stimulant drug possession and use. Kobayashi was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2000 and was reelected in 2003. He lost his Diet seat in the Sept. 11 general election. (Kyodo)

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Ex-DPJ lawmaker sentenced to suspended 2-year prison term

NAGOYA, Japan - former Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Kenji Kobayashi arrives at the Nagoya District Court on Dec. 16. The court later sentenced him to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for stimulant drug possession and use. (Kyodo)

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Retrial granted in 1986 Fukui girl murder case

NANTO, Japan - Shoji Maekawa, who served out a 7-year prison term for killing a junior high school girl, speaks during a press conference in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2011, after the Kanazawa branch of the Nagoya High Court decided the same day to open a retrial into the 1986 murder case in Fukui Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Defense for ex-student pleads not guilty to murder in appeal trial

An appeal trial of a former Nagoya University student convicted of the 2014 murder of a woman and attempting to kill a boy and girl while she was in high school, begins Aug. 24, 2017, at the Nagoya High Court in Aichi Prefecture, pictured the same day. The defense for the 21-year-old former student, sentenced to life in prison by the lower court, pleaded not guilty, claiming she was not mentally competent to be held responsible for her actions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court finds city mayor guilty in bribery case

Minokamo Mayor Hiroto Fujii heads to a press conference on Nov. 28, 2016, after the Nagoya High Court (back) sentenced the 32-year-old city mayor in Gifu Prefecture to one and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, for taking bribes, overturning an acquittal by a district court. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court finds city mayor guilty in bribery case

Minokamo Mayor Hiroto Fujii leaves the Nagoya High Court on Nov. 28, 2016, after the court sentenced the 32-year-old city mayor in Gifu Prefecture to one and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, for taking bribes, overturning an acquittal by a district court. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-lawmaker Kondo gets suspended term for vote-buying

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Kondo, a former House of Representatives lawmaker of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, leaves the Nagoya District Court May 25 after receiving a two-year prison term, suspended for five years, for vote-buying in last November's election. (Kyodo)

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Opposition parties urge Moriyama to resign over prison case

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listens to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda durikng a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Feb. 19. Four opposition parties agreed earlier in the day to urge Moriyama to resign over what they allege as the ministry's cover-up of the death of a male inmate in December 2001 at Nagoya Prison. (Kyodo)

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5 Nagoya jailers indicted on charges of prisoner abuse

NAGOYA, Japan - Chishu Sakurai, head of Nagoya Prison, bows to reporters in the town of Miyoshi, Aichi Prefecture, on Nov. 27 after five prison officers were indicted by prosecutors on charges of inflicting serious injuries on an inmate. (Kyodo)

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Inmate's alleged abuse at Nagoya Prison to be probed

NAGOYA, Japan - Prosecutors will begin investigating several officials at Nagoya Prison (shown in photo) in connection with the alleged abuse of a prisoner in September, sources close to the case said Nov. 8. The officials are suspected of attacking the 30-year-old male inmate Sept. 25 when placing him in solitary confinement due to unruly behavior, the sources said. (Kyodo)

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Accountant gets 6 yrs in prison for 2.1 bil. yen tax evasion

NAGOYA, Japan - Tsuneo Otake, a 52-year-old certified public accountant, enters the Nagoya District Court building in Nagoya's Naka Ward on Sept. 4 to hear a court ruling in his tax evasion trial. The court sentenced him to six years in prison and ordered him to pay 500 million yen in penalties for evading about 2.1 billion yen in his own and his clients' income and corporate taxes. (Kyodo)