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Apr 23 GSDF member arrested in slaying of cabby (Asahi) Apr 23 Death rap for double killer / Execution order given for murders, rape committed as minor (Yomiuri) Apr 23 Hello Kitty gets high fashion makeover (Reuters) Apr 23 Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida awarded BBC's 'Disc of the Year' (Kyodo) Apr 23 Philippines to seek justice for allegedly raped Filipina in Japan (People's Daily) Apr 23 Japanese taking stability for granted (mysinchew.com) Apr 23 Missing CCSU Student Spurs Search in Japan (The Recorder) Apr 22 Tulip vandalism sign of an oppressive society (Asahi) Apr 22 24% suffer some form of mental ills (Japan Times) Apr 22 Copycat vandals seen behind flower attacks (Yomiuri) Apr 22 Japanese family, monk detained on Malaysia Olympic torch leg (AP) Apr 21 Man nabbed for making 8,000 silent phone calls to ex-girlfriend (Mainichi) Apr 21 Woman was starved before she died of beating (Asahi) Apr 21 Man to be rearrested over fraud-murder (Yomiuri) Apr 20 Get the geisha girl look... for £50 a time (telegraph.co.uk) Apr 20 Nagano in Japan: A stranger in the strange land (canada.com) Apr 20 Troubled College Student From Southington Tracked To Japan (courant.com) Apr 20 Asian activists slam revote on sex slave resolution (Japan Times) Apr 20 Teen in slayings fit to stand trial (Japan Times) Apr 20 Women juggling husbands and jobs (Japan Times) Apr 20 Crimes of the times (Japan Times) Apr 20 Troublemakers can't get in, but also can't get out of Japan (Japan Times) Apr 19 Winds lash Kanto, bringing chaos, misery (Asahi) Apr 19 Conveyer belt sushi celebrates its 50th anniversary (Yomiuri) Apr 19 Disabled gain more mobility with foreign, domestic travel (Yomiuri) Apr 18 US official urges Japan to step up child porn battle (AFP) Apr 18 'Maiko' fever strikes Kyoto (Asahi) Apr 18 Wealthy woman, brother missing, feared abducted (Yomiuri) Apr 18 Self-serve gas stations being targeted by thieves (Yomiuri) Apr 18 Acquittal of American parents over child abuse becomes final (Kyodo) Apr 17 Japan police to reward tip-offs on illicit handgun possession (Kyodo) Apr 17 Koreans, foreign residents step up calls for local suffrage (Kyodo) Apr 17 Police search for American college student missing in Japan (Boston.com) Apr 16 Japanese broadcaster says it will air recording of execution (AFP) Apr 16 Man gets life in prison for 28 cases of rape, attempted rape (Kyodo) Apr 16 Japan may get regional smoking ban: official (Reuters) Apr 16 Rare cherry trees get rave reviews in Osaka (Asahi) Apr 16 Man guilty in Hawaii murder (Japan Times) Apr 16 American woman missing in Hokkaido (Japan Times) Apr 16 Man gets 11 years for burying student alive (Yomiuri) Apr 16 Man arrested over murder of Fukuoka elderly woman, random stabbing suspected (Kyodo) Apr 15 Japanese student conned out of £700 in fake Edinburgh flat scam (Edinburgh News) Apr 15 Tokyo forms 10% of Japan's population for 1st time in 28 yrs (Kyodo) Apr 15 Junior high girls abuse officers (Asahi) Apr 15 Japan makes game of bubblewrap popping (The Australian) Apr 15 Popular illustrator held over molesting teen fan (Yomiuri) Apr 15 Farmers being shortchanged / People pilfering vegetables from unmanned produce stands (Yomiuri) Apr 15 NPA backs new bikes for carrying 2 kids (Yomiuri) Apr 14 In Ian Fleming's footsteps in Tokyo (Times Online) Apr 14 Suspect in stabbing spree sought death sentence (Asahi)