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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident.

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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident. (Kyodo)

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Japan hangs 3 death row inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Yasuaki Uwabe, a death row inmate. Uwabe, 48, was executed on March 29, 2012, along with two other death row inmates, in the first executions in 20 months in Japan, one of the few advanced countries to retain the death penalty. (Kyodo)