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Crime › Judge, 55, arrested for stalking woman in Yamanashi

A 55-year-old judge of the Utsunomiya District Court was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of harassing a woman in her 20s who is a court staffer… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Wed, May 21 2008

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