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Crime › Court rejects prosecution request to detain Briton after acquittal

The Tokyo High Court rejected Thursday a request by prosecutors to detain a 54-year-old British man who has been acquitted by a district court of… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Thu, May 15 2008

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