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Crime › Sakai given suspended term for drug possession, use
Sakai :: Japan | 17 days ago
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Japanese show business industry is not immune to illegal drugs. The highly publicized case attracted 3,030 people to seek a chance to draw by lot the 21 gallery seats available on the judgment day, the court said. At the one-day hearing of her...
Tags: Noriko Sakai, Tokyo District Court, drugs using, Japan�Japanese, jail term, suspended jail, illegal drugs
Ex-diplomat to be called to testify on secret Okinawa reversion pact
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility A former senior Foreign Ministry official will be summoned to a trial Dec. Japan-U.S. secret pact over the cost burdens for the 1972 Okinawa reversion, the Tokyo District Court decided Tuesday. To access full stories on Kyodo News English website, it...
Tags: Japan-U.S, Okinawa, Tokyo District Court, Naha Airport, ANA, Asia
Crime › Sakai admits to drug use, possession; 6,000 line up for 20 gallery seats
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Pop idol-turned-actress Noriko Sakai pleaded guilty Monday to possessing and taking illegal drugs on the first day of her trial at the Tokyo District Court. Sakai, 38, is charged with smoking a stimulant drug around July 30 at a hotel on Amamioshima Island,...
Tags: Noriko Sakai, Tokyo District Court, pleading guilty, actress noriko
Crime › Woman attacked, robbed in her Tokyo apartment
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility A 45-year-old woman suffered cuts to her face and arms on Thursday when she returned to her Shinjuku Ward apartment and was attacked by a Chinese-speaking assailant, police said Friday. Police said the woman came home from shopping at around 2 p.m. and...
Tags: Tokyo District Court, Oshio
Crime › Sakai's husband pleads guilty to stimulant possession
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Prosecutors sought two years in prison Wednesday for the husband of disgraced former pop idol Noriko Sakai after he pleaded guilty to stimulant use and possession charges at the Tokyo District Court. The court plans to hand down a ruling on Yuichi Takaso,...
Tags: Tokyo District Court, Noriko Sakai, Yuichi Takaso, pleads guilty
Crime › Ex-Fukushima governor, brother given lighter sentences
Tachikawa :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Former Fukushima Gov Eisaku Sato, 70, and his brother Yuji, 66, who were indicted over bribery in connection with a dam construction project, were found guilty at the Tokyo High Court Wednesday, but both of them received lighter sentences than those imposed...
Tags: Tokyo District Court, Tokyo High Court, lighter sentenced
Designer Yamamoto Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Yohji Yamamoto , the Japanese designer whose ascetic look defied the overexuberance of the 1980s, fell prey to the global economic crisis on Friday when the company bearing his name filed for bankruptcy protection. Yohji Yamamoto follows a string of fashion...
Tags: Yohji Yamamoto Inc., fashion house, bankruptcy protection, yamamoto filed, Mr Yamamoto, Yoji Yamamoto, Tokyo District Court, corporate rehabilitation, designer yamamoto, billion yen
National › Sensoji temple goes to court to halt skyscraper construction
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility Sensoji, the Buddhist temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district, and a group of local residents filed a lawsuit Thursday in a bid to bring the just-started construction of a skyscraper in the neighborhood to a halt. In the lawsuit filed with the Tokyo District...
Tags: Yamba Dam, Tokyo District Court, Japan, Tōkyō
Crime › Ex-PCI head found guilty of tax evasion
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility The Tokyo District Court sentenced a former president of a major consultancy to one year in prison suspended for two years for evading corporate taxes, but waived him of a breach of trust charge filed over a state-funded project to dispose of chemical...
Tags: Bank of Japan, Tokyo Verdy, Tokyo District Court, central bank, stronger yen, Masaaki Shirakawa, BOJ, Japan, Tōkyō
Japan pop star Sakai freed on bail ahead of trial
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility Several television station helicopters buzzed overhead then followed the car that took her away across Tokyo, airing live footage. Shedding tears at a press conference later, she said she had been too weak to beat her drug habit, vowing: "I will do my...
Tags: Noriko Sakai, Tokyo District Court, Tokyo Wangan, Japan, Tōkyō
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