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Tokyo Rose (alternative spelling Tokio Rose) was a name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to all female English-speaking radio broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. [1] The programs were broadcast in the South Pacific and North America to demoralize Allied forces abroad and their families at home by emphasizing ...
Yuka Takaoka (高岡由佳, Takaoka Yuka, born January 28, 1998) is a Japanese woman known for having stabbed her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in their apartment in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in May 2019. She was found guilty of attempted murder in December 2019 and sentenced to 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 years in prison.
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.
However, on 15 June 2012 the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department re-arrested Hinds for the murder of Nicola Furlong after reviewing her autopsy report. [17] In July 2012, Japanese authorities announced that they were also investigating Blackston regarding a separate sexual assault allegedly carried out by him on another young woman in Kofu a ...
Joji Obara was born on 10 August 1952 to Zainichi Korean parents in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. [5] During his youth, Obara's father worked his way from a scrap collector to the immensely wealthy owner of a string of properties and pachinko parlors. [1]
Lindsay Hawker was born to Bill and Julia Hawker, who lived in Coventry, England; her family came from the nearby village of Brandon, Warwickshire. [6] She was schooled at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and studied biology at the University of Leeds, when she achieved a first-class honours degree, graduating in 2006. [7]
Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the government of Japan as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881, [3] 14 years after the Meiji Restoration.To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, the government expected this school to cultivate new modernized craftsmen and engineers.
[86] [87] On 22 June, three women were injured by a female attacker at Ōsaka Station; [88] a 38-year-old woman later confessed to attacking two of the victims with a razor. [89] A 19-year-old man who made an Internet threat to go on a 15 June stabbing spree at Tokyo Disney Resort was arrested by police. [90]