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Inside The Mind-Blowing Prison Breaks Of Yoshie Shiratori, The ‘Japanese Houdini’
When Yoshie Shiratori was locked up in Japan's notorious Abashiri prison in 1943, the guards were well aware of his ...
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Japan's prison population getting old fast - SFGATE
Though Japan's crime rate remains relatively low, the spike in elderly crime is another... Japan's prison population getting old fast SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...
Japanese court convicts a US Marine in sexual assault, sentencing him to 7 years in prison
A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...
Steady-handed Japan prison guard remembers faces of condemned
His hands never trembled, not even as he slipped the noose around the necks of several condemned men. But now, years later, ...
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Inmate who killed Japanese psychic found dead in Hawaii prison cell
A Hawaii inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a Japanese psychic and her son was killed in prison, authorities have said.. Staff at the Halawa Correctional Facility in Aiea, outside Honolulu ...
U.S. Marine sentenced to 7 years in Japanese prison for sexual assault
Lance Cpl. James Clayton, 22, was found guilty of grabbing the woman from behind, choking her and unbuttoning her pants in an ...
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Donna Nelson trial: Daughters to see mother in Chiba Prison near Tokyo - The Sydney Morning Herald
Since then, she has been held in a cell 23 hours a day at Chiba Prison near Tokyo. Donna Nelson remains in a Japanese prison and has been allowed only limited contact with the outside world.