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[ad_1] DNA tests have shown that a man who died earlier this week at a hospital is likely to be the person wanted for one of a series of terrorist bombings in Japan during the 1970s, investigative sources said Friday. The man confessed last month to being the alleged bomber, Satoshi Kirishima, who was a member of an extreme left-wing group. The DNA test results conducted on the suspect's relatives […]

[ad_1] KOFU, Yamanashi Pref. – The death sentence has been finalized for a 21-year-old man convicted of murders and arson he committed as a minor in 2021 after he withdrew an appeal, a Japanese court said Friday.The defense team for Yuki Endo filed the appeal at the deadline Thursday, but the defendant withdrew it later in the day, the Kofu District Court said.The ruling handed down last month became the […]

[ad_1] Taro Aso, a former prime minister and the current vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Friday retracted his sexist remarks regarding the appearance of the country's top diplomat.In a speech on Sunday, Aso, a heavyweight of the LDP headed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, described Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa as an "obasan," which loosely translates as old lady and sometimes carries a negative connotation. At the […]

[ad_1] Japan Airlines expects a revenue loss of around ¥2 billion ($13.6 million) after last month’s crash at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The incident — which occurred when a large Airbus A350 jet operated by JAL collided with a much smaller De Havilland Canada Dash 8 operated by the Japan Coast Guard, killing five of the six crew on the coast guard plane — shut a runway for several days, disrupting […]