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Nearly 80% of Japanese think Okinawa’s U.S. base-hosting burden unfair

anniversary of Okinawa's reversion

Nearly 80 percent of people in Japan think the burden on Okinawa in hosting the bulk of U.S. forces in the country is not fair compared with other prefectures, according to the results of a Kyodo News survey.

Japanese ‘Twitter killer’ sentenced to death for murders of nine people

'Twitter killer'

A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who pleaded guilty to killing nine people in a high-profile mass murder case in 2017 was sentenced to death on Tuesday, the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa branch confirmed to CNN. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, was convicted of murdering, raping, dismembering, and storing the nine victims’ bodies in his apartment […]