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GORATH aka YOSEI GORASU Date: 1962

Man acquitted of trespassing to post Communist Party fliers

TOKYO, Japan - Yosei Arakawa (R) speaks at a press conference after the Tokyo District Court acquitted him on Aug. 28 on a charge of trespassing onto a private housing estate in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets. (Kyodo)

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Man acquitted of trespassing to post Communist Party fliers

TOKYO, Japan - Yosei Arakawa (R) reacts in joy after the Tokyo District Court acquitted him on Aug. 28 on a charge of trespassing onto a private housing estate in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets. (Kyodo)

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Monk fined for distributing communist party fliers

TOKYO, Japan - Buddhist monk Yosei Arakawa weeps after the Tokyo High Court fined him 50,000 yen on Dec. 11, overturning a lower court decision that had cleared him of a charge of trespassing at a Tokyo condominium to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets. (Kyodo)

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Guilty verdict finalized over political flier distribution

TOKYO, Japan - Yosei Arakawa (C), a 62-year-old monk who received a guilty verdict from the Tokyo High Court for trespassing at a Tokyo condominium to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal and supported the lower court's ruling to fine him 50,000 yen. (Kyodo)

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Guilty verdict finalized over political flier distribution

TOKYO, Japan - Yosei Arakawa (C), a 62-year-old monk who received a guilty verdict from the Tokyo High Court for trespassing at a Tokyo condominium to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets, arrives at the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2009, to hear the top court's decision on him. The court dismissed his appeal and supported the lower court's ruling to fine him 50,000 yen. (Kyodo)