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Protesters of abduction of children to Japan at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear In Washington D.C. International child abduction in Japan refers to the illegal international abduction or removal of children from their country of habitual residence by an acquaintance or family member to Japan or their retention in Japan in contravention to the law of another country. Most cases involve ...
The number of suspected kidnapping of Japanese by North Korea dropped to 881 people. [54] Tokyo Reporter has reported in 2019 on September 8 that the Japanese police confirmed Takeshi Saito is dead when the body was found in Japan in April 2018. The number of suspected kidnapping of Japanese by North Korea is at 880. [55]
Furuta was born on 18 January 1971 and grew up in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, where she lived with her parents, older brother, and younger brother. [4] At the time of her murder, she was a 17-year-old senior at Yashio-Minami High School, and she worked a part-time job at a plastic molding factory from October 1988 to save up money for a planned graduation trip. [1]
Fusako Sano (佐野 房子 [1], Sano Fusako, also known by the pseudonym Sachiko Yamada (山田 幸子 [2], Yamada Sachiko)) (born November 28, 1980 [1]) is a Japanese woman who was kidnapped at age nine by Nobuyuki Satō (佐藤 宣行, Satō Nobuyuki), [3] and held in captivity for nine years and two months from November 13, 1990, to January 28, 2000.
1996 kidnapping of Yukari Yokoyama On 7 July 1996, four-year-old Yukari Yokoyama went missing from a pachinko parlor. As the girl was never found, this is treated as a disappearance case. The following are used as reasoning behind the definition of this as a serial case: All cases involved young girls between ages 4 and 8
In February, a justice ministry panel proposed raising the age of consent in Japan as part
Japan is considering stepping up its laws against cyberbullying. The moves follow the death on Saturday of Hana Kimura, a pro-wrestler and personality in the “Terrace House” reality TV show.
The 1995 Okinawa rape incident (Japanese: 沖縄米兵少女暴行事件) occurred on September 4, 1995, when three U.S. servicemen, 22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marines Rodrico Harp, and 20-year-old Kendrick Ledet, all serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa, rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl.