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Sim Woh Kum, husband and accomplice of Mimi Wong, who murdered a Japanese woman in Singapore (27 July 1973) Mimi Wong, the first female prisoner to be executed for murder in Singapore (27 July 1973) Chow Kim Hoong, a Malaysian-born stateless person found guilty of the 1969 killing of his brother's fiancée in Singapore (3 August 1973)
The record speed for a British long-drop hanging was seven seconds from the executioner entering the cell to the drop. Speed was considered to be important in the British system as it reduced the condemned's mental distress. [16] Long-drop hanging is still practiced as the method of execution in a few countries, including Japan and Singapore ...
The Japan Times. Published 2 July 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2017. Calls to abolish death penalty grow louder in Japan. The Guardian. Published 21 September 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2017. Questioning capital punishment. The Japan Times. Published 14 October 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2017. Japan: Man hanged as secretive executions continue.
The most notable annual events in AJW were the Japan Grand Prix and Tag League the Best.The Japan Grand Prix was held each summer, from 1985 to 2004, and was a tournament to determine the number one contender for the WWWA World Single Championship, similar to the G1 Climax or Champion Carnival seen in the men's promotions New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling, respectively.
Risako Kinjo (née Kawai) (金城 梨沙子, Kinjo Risako, born 21 November 1994) [1] is a Japanese wrestler. She is a two-time gold medalist at the Olympic Games, a three-time gold medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a four-time gold medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships.
The championship was first introduced in 1999 as the CMLL Japan Women's Championship, when CMLL was touring Japan in hopes of expanding into the Japanese market. By 2000 CMLL ceased promoting shows regularly in Japan, loaning the CMLL Japan Women's Championship to Osaka Pro Wrestling, who kept promoting the championship until June 2001 ...
Pages in category "Japanese female professional wrestlers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
She came to prominence as one of the leading female wrestlers in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s. The longtime leader of the Atrocious Alliance stable, which included Crane Yu, Condor Saito and Bull Nakano, she was one of the main rivals of the popular tag team the Crush Gals. Their long-running feud would become ...