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4 Japanese basketball players sent home from Asian Games after spending night with prostitutes in hotel
Japan has sent home four players from their Asian Games basketball team for spending the night with women in a Jakarta hotel, the head of… Read
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It has been one week since Junya Hida, 30, escaped from Tondabayashi police station in Osaka where he was being detained. Osaka police have released… Read
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Haruo Obata, 78, who made headlines last week after he found a two-year-old boy missing for three days on Suo-Oshima island in Yamaguchi Prefecture, was… Read
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A 14-year-old boy was hit and killed by a train at a railroad crossing in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, on Sunday. According to police, the incident… Read
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