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Rare Access: INSIDE Japan's STRICTEST Prison Kitchen!

Aug 15 (Japanese Food Craftsman) - We hope you will enjoy this compilation of our three prison videos about Prison life at the strictest kitchen we have ever seen. These were all filmed last year with a lot of hard negotiations and difficulty to bring this content to Youtube.

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The father arrested in connection with the abandonment of his son's body in Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture, has told investigators he killed the boy at another location after driving him toward elementary school, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Typhoon No. 4, Sinlaku, moved northeast on April 19 while accelerating over waters near Minamitorishima, east of the Ogasawara Islands, according to weather officials. Although the storm is rapidly moving away from Japan, rough seas are expected to persist, prompting continued caution across the island chain.

A bear was spotted at around 5:20 a.m. Sunday in a residential district of Aoba Ward, Sendai, and was later found staying in bushes behind an apartment building.

Police investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy whose body was found in a forest in Kyoto Prefecture believe his father moved the remains between several locations over a number of days in an apparent attempt to conceal the crime.

A large and powerful Typhoon No. 4, internationally named Sinlaku, was located near the Mariana Islands and moving north-northeast as of the latest update. The storm is expected to gradually shift its course eastward and pass southeast of the Ogasawara Islands around April 18, before making its closest approach around April 19.

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