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People gather for tickets to trial of kidnap suspect

NIIGATA, Japan - People gather in a municipal gymnasium in Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast Jan. 22 to get tickets to a court ruling on the case of Nobuyuki Sato, charged with abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and keeping her prisoner in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years.

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Japan's marathon runners arrive in Sydney

SYDNEY, Australia - Japan's marathon runners Shinji Kawashima (R) and Nobuyuki Sato (L) walk into the arrival lounge at Sydney airport Sept. 26. The Olympic men's marathon race is scheduled for Oct. 1.

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Hearing starts for Niigata man who held girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - A Niigata District Court room is pictured May 23, before the start of the first hearing in the trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months until January at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Niigata man pleads guilty to confining girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - People form long queues outside the Niigata District Court on May 23 for admission tickets into the first hearing in trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man charged with abduction. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Japanese marathon runners off for Sydney

NARITA, Japan - Japanese Olympic marathon runners wave hands as they leave for Sydney from Narita airport April 26 to run in the Host City Marathon scheduled for April 30. (2nd from L to R) Eri Yamaguchi, Shinji Kawashima, Nobuyuki Sato, Takayuki Inubushi and Kayoko Obata.

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Japan's Sato wins bronze in world marathon in Spain

SEVILLE, Spain - Japan's Nobuyuki Sato raises the Hinomaru (rising sun) flag after winning bronze in the world athletics championships' marathon in Seville, Spain, on Aug. 28. He clocked 2 hours, 14 minutes, 7 seconds. Defending champion Abel Anton of Spain won gold in 2:13.36 and Italy's Vincenzo Modica silver in 2:14.03.

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Marathon winners show medals

SEVILLE, Spain - Marathon winners in the world athletics championships show their medals at the Olympic stadium in Seville, Spain, on Aug. 28. Japan's Nobuyuki Sato won bronze, Spain's defending champion Abel Anton gold, and Italy's Vincenzo Modica silver (from L to R).

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People gather for tickets to trial of kidnap suspect

NIIGATA, Japan - People gather in a municipal gymnasium in Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast Jan. 22 to get tickets to a court ruling on the case of Nobuyuki Sato, charged with abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and keeping her prisoner in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years.

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Niigata man gets 14 yrs for confining girl for 9 yrs

NIIGATA, Japan - Thirty-nine-year-old Nobuyuki Sato (file photo) was sentenced by the Niigata District Court to 14 years in prison Jan. 22 for abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and keeping her prisoner in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years.

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Hearing starts for Niigata man who held girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - A Niigata District Court room is pictured May 23, before the start of the first hearing in the trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months until January at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Niigata man pleads guilty to confining girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - People form long queues outside the Niigata District Court on May 23 for admission tickets into the first hearing in trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man charged with abduction. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Groundsman tends to Japan rugby training pitches

Groundsman Nobuyuki Sato, seen in this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019, maintains the training pitches used by Japan's rugby team during its camp in Abashiri, northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Groundsman tends to Japan rugby training pitches

Groundsman Nobuyuki Sato, seen in this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019, maintains the training pitches used by Japan's rugby team during its camp in Abashiri, northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Jail term for Niigata confinement cut to 11 years

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo High Court on Dec. 10 dismissed a lower court ruling Nobuyuki Sato (file photo) to 14 years in prison for abducting and confining a 9-year-old girl in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years, reducing the term to 11 years. (Kyodo)

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Four more named to Japan's six-member Olympic marathon squad

TOKYO, Japan - Naoko Takahashi (bottom R) and Takayuki Inubushi (top C) were named March 13 to Japan's six-member Olympic marathon squad along with Shinji Kawashima (top R) and Eri Yamaguchi (bottom C). The four will join Nobuyuki Sato (top L) and Ari Ichihashi (bottom L) who had been given tentative approval for the Olympic team last summer after winning medals in the athletics world championships in Spain.

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Police send suspect to prosecutors over girl's confinement

NIIGATA, Japan - Police send to prosecutors on Feb. 13 a 37-year-old man for allegedly abducting and confining a schoolgirl at his house for more than nine years. Blanketed Nobuyuki Sato (C), unemployed, was arrested Feb. 11 on suspicion of forcibly taking the girl, now 19, to his house in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, in 1990 and confining her to the second floor for nine years and two months.

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Senior high school photo of Sato

NIIGATA, Japan - This is a senior high school photo of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old jobless man in Niigata Prefecture, arrested on a charge of abducting a schoolgirl and confining her for more than nine years and taken to Sanjo Police Station, where the task force on the adduction case is located, on Feb. 11.

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Marathon winners show medals

SEVILLE, Spain - Marathon winners in the world athletics championships show their medals at the Olympic stadium in Seville, Spain, on Aug. 28. Japan's Nobuyuki Sato won bronze, Spain's defending champion Abel Anton gold, and Italy's Vincenzo Modica silver (from L to R).

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Japan's Sato wins bronze in world marathon in Spain

SEVILLE, Spain - Japan's Nobuyuki Sato raises the Hinomaru (rising sun) flag after winning bronze in the world athletics championships' marathon in Seville, Spain, on Aug. 28. He clocked 2 hours, 14 minutes, 7 seconds. Defending champion Abel Anton of Spain won gold in 2:13.36 and Italy's Vincenzo Modica silver in 2:14.03.