- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Nov 17, 2010 06:51 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Drugs, Guro, Law, Mahjong, Shinjuku, Yakuza, Yokohama

A man who used a saw to cut off a man’s head even as he begged to be killed first, his only response being to tell him to “stay still or I can’t cut your neck properly,” has been sentenced to hang in Japan’s first ever jury trial of a capital crime.
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China has seen to it that Japanese clothing is banned from an upcoming APEC summit to be held in Japan.
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The Cure Cosplay Festival Volume 2 was recently held in Yokohama, giving a variety of top cosplayers the chance to show off their portrayals of a wide variety of characters.
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A 14-year-old schoolboy has been arrested for child prostitution, after he paid $600 for sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a public toilet.
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A man arrested for the attempted rape of a schoolgirl has confessed to violating 70 other girls.
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The Seoul Metropolitan Police have arrested a 41-year-old homosexual pimp, only identified as Park, for arranging the transport of dozens of Korean homosexuals and transgendered individuals into Yokohama’s red-light district.
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A lady (35), calling herself a “bridal planner”, has been arrested for beating a homeless girl into submission, and then confining her in her house and then starting to gather johns to rent the girl out to. The lady has been arrested on suspicion of assault and violations of child welfare laws. The age of the girl is not given, but given the charges she was obviously a minor.
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