Tag Archive | "Lawyer"
Suspect in Briton’s murder to release book on 31-month fugitive life
The 32-year-old man indicted in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker in Japan will release a book Wednesday about his two-year-and-seven-month fugitive life through his arrest in November sources close to the matter said Monday. While Tatsuya Ichihashi, who will likely face a lay judge trial this year, has said publishing of the [...]
Continue reading...Ibaraki labor office marks a first: ’08 foreign trainee death ‘karoshi’
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
A labor office in Ibaraki Prefecture has deemed that a Chinese trainee at a local firm died in 2008 due to overwork, marking the first recognized “karoshi” death of a foreign intern under a government-authorized training program. But the lawyer representing his next of kin say his case is just the tip of the iceberg [...]
Continue reading...Japan works to push organized crime out of business
Thursday, November 18, 2010
When the toasts are raised here next year at the opening of the world’s tallest communications tower, yakuza gangsters will not be celebrating. The yakuza, as members of Japan’s criminal underworld are known, are banned from the construction of the 2,080-foot tower, developers say. “The mob cannot come here,” said Toru Hironaka, a lawyer who [...]
Continue reading...Japan’s yakuza: Death of a mockingbird
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
What is it that draws some people towards their own destruction, like moths to a flame? Sometimes it is the most dedicated and generous people who end this way: foreign-aid workers, social activists. Even journalists, sometimes. And once in a while it is a lawyer, who chose a less-travelled path. One such attorney met a [...]
Continue reading...Policemen mistook victim for attacker
Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Akita lawyer killed in his own house Thursday was fatally stabbed after being overpowered by police officers who mistook him for the attacker, it has been learned. Two Akita prefectural police officers believed Hirotaka Tsuya, 55, was the assailant because he had taken an object that looked like a handgun from the actual attacker, [...]
Continue reading...Prominent lawyer slain in Akita home
Thursday, November 4, 2010
A 55-year-old lawyer died early Thursday after being stabbed in his Akita home by a man whose wife he had represented in their divorce. The victim, Hirotaka Tsuya, was a member of the Akita Bar Association and head of a panel on consumer affairs at the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. Police arrested Katsuo Sugawara, [...]
Continue reading...Railgun/Hellsing doujinshi explains the anti-loli law
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Chalk up another victory for education. The Tokyo Nonexistent Youth Ordinance, also known as the "anti-loli law" may have been defeated in committee, but the need to satisfy minds hungry for knowledge is not yet gone. Thankfully, some intrepid doujin fan artists have taken it upon themselves to help everyone learn more about what it [...]
Continue reading...Man tells police he was assaulted by Asashoryu in car
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
A 38-year-old man told police during voluntary questioning on Tuesday that recently retired sumo grand champion Asashoryu had assaulted him in a car, investigative sources said. The Metropolitan Police Department may consider whether to question the Mongolian himself about the incident, the sources said. The police questioned the man at the Azabu police station in [...]
Continue reading...Soldier decries hit-and-run probe
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A U.S. Army sergeant suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Okinawa has claimed the investigation by Japanese police is not being carried out fairly, his lawyer said Tuesday. The 27-year-old staff sergeant at the Torii communications station in Yomitan has also refused to face Japanese investigators unless a video recording of the [...]
Continue reading...Obama’s new Tokyo ambassador praises US-Japan ties
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
US President Barack Obama’s new ambassador to Japan, John Roos, arrived in the country on Wednesday, praising the strong ties between the world’s two largest economies. “Our nations have formed one of the most successful alliances in the history of the world,” Roos, a longtime Silicon Valley Internet and biotechnology lawyer, told reporters on arrival [...]
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