Ex-high school student gets 18 years for murder of nursery teacher on Tokunoshima
The Kagoshima District Court chose prison over a juvenile reform order, sentencing the 19-year-old to 18 years against a prosecution request for 22.
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Kagoshima court gives 19-year-old 18 years for killing nursery teacher at 17
The Kagoshima District Court ruled the then-17-year-old should face criminal punishment rather than protective measures, citing planning and malice in the November 2024 killing of Fusako Kikuchi.
Woman who sought police help in July is found dead; ex-partner held
Saya Nakada, 26, was allegedly confined in a car near her Ishikawa home and was dead within hours. Police are now weighing murder charges against the 49-year-old man from Hiroshima.
Prosecutors seek 10 years for wheelchair influencer who killed her 3-month-old daughter
Satsuki Naito's defense argued for a suspended sentence, citing attachment disorder, possible postpartum depression and a lack of state support before she cut her baby's throat in the bath.
Woman's body found in Fukui woods after suspect tells police he killed her
A 49-year-old man arrested for confining a woman in her 20s has told police he killed her and left the body in the mountains, about three months after she asked officers for help ending the relationship.
Body found in Fukui forest; man arrested for confinement now investigated for murder
Ishikawa police say the 49-year-old suspect told them he killed the woman and left her in the mountains, and officers found the body on Saturday morning.
Man rearrested over killing of partner whose body was found in Miyagi mountains
Mahiro Muroga's former boyfriend says she told him in July that Takuya Miura had broken her nose and strangled her — and that police would not take a complaint at the time.
Oita police refer dead suspect over deaths of two daughters and father
Akamine Tomi, 56, is accused of killing her daughters with burning charcoal and of killing her father with his consent at the family home in Yufu in June.
Prosecutors produce new statement in Fukuoka arson trial as defendant denies remembering fire day
Koji Inoue, 58, a former resident of the burned Kitakyushu apartment building, told the court he has no memory of May 7, 2017, and no reason to have visited the site.
Defendant in Kitakyushu fire that killed 6 refuses prosecution questions
Koji Inoue told the Fukuoka District Court's Kokura branch he did not want to answer, and the questioning of the defendant ended the same day.
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