30-month term sought for ex-railway worker over fatal train accident
December 19, 2005Prosecutors sought a 30-month prison term on Monday for a former employee of Tobu Railway Co over a March 15 fatal train accident at a manually operated railway crossing in Tokyo's Adachi Ward. The court will hand down its ruling on Feb 3 next yea...
Man, who murdered mother in 2000, confesses to killing two sisters
December 19, 2005Police served a new arrest warrant Monday on a 22-year-old man, who had been arrested in early December on suspicion of breaking into a building of a food company, now on suspicion of killing two sisters in their apartment in Osaka's Naniwa Ward in N...
Prison term upheld for ex-labor minister
December 19, 2005The Tokyo High Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling sentencing former Labor Minister Masakuni Murakami to two years and two months in prison and fining him 72.8 million yen for taking bribes from KSD, an organization that provides industrial a...
Man denies charges of confining, assaulting 4 women
December 19, 2005A man denied charges Monday that he had confined four women for up to four months between December 2003 and December 2004 and assaulted them. "I did not confine them because they were in a situation where they could leave any time," Yasuyoshi Ishijim...
Lawmaker Nishimura served new warrant over illegal law practices
December 19, 2005Prosecutors served a fresh arrest warrant against opposition lawmaker Shingo Nishimura on Sunday, alleging he received remuneration by illegally allowing an unqualified employee to provide attorney services in his name. In the latest development o...