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Therapy dogs taking anxiety out of legal system for abused kids
Therapy dogs have been used in Japan for the past three years to ease anxiety felt by child sexual abuse victims and others as they… Read
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Sunday that harassment must be prevented from occurring in the Self-Defense Forces after three former service members were indicted… Read
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Police in Kushiro, Hokkaido, have arrested a 50-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assaulting his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend. According to police, the man punched the woman… Read
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Japan on Sunday reported 6,324 new coronavirus cases, down 1,962 from Saturday. Tokyo reported 667 new cases, down 196 from Saturday. The number of infected… Read
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Their not acquitted. That’s just their excuse.
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This man is more than twice the age of his ex-girl friend. Was she not asleep at 3am when he…
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It was a revealing moment during Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s tightly scripted visit to Moscow: Standing in the doorway of the Grand Kremlin Palace, he… Read
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To generate some extra income, how about raising cockroaches?
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