Akii's posts with tag: news
Seven killed in Tokyo stabbing rampage AP
Sunday, 8 June 2008  A man police said was on a murder mission plowed into pedestrians with a truck in a crowded Tokyo neighborhood Sunday and then stabbed 17 people in three minutes, killing at least seven in a grisly attack that shocked Japan. The lunchtime assault — on the seventh anniversary of a mass stabbing in Japan in 2001 - sent thousands of pedestrians into a panic in Tokyo's crowded Akihabara district, an electronics and video game area wildly popular among the country's cyber-wise youth. A 25-year-old man, Tomohiro Kato, was arrested with blood on his face. Police said Kato provided no motive for the attack - other than he wanted to murder strangers. "The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people," said Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. "He said he was tired of life. He said he was sick of everything," Akaogi said. The violence began when he crashed a rented, two-ton truck into pedestrians. Kato jumped out and began stabbing the people he'd knocked down with the truck, then turned on horrified onlookers, police said. Police confirmed seven deaths — six men and one woman — but they could not say whether the victims had died of injuries from the truck or were stabbed to death. Reports said the attacker grunted and roared as he slashed and stabbed at Sunday shoppers crowding a street lined with huge stores packed with computers and other advanced electronics, and the latest in video and computer games. "He was screaming as he was stabbing people at random," an unidentified male witness told public broadcaster NHK. A witness also told NHK the suspect dropped his knife after police threatened to shoot him. Amateur video filmed by mobile phone showed policemen overpowering the bespectacled, bloodied suspect. The attack paralyzed the district and sent thousands of Sunday shoppers into a panic. Amateur video taken five minutes after the rampage showed shoppers helping victims and a man screaming, "Ambulance, Ambulance!" At least 17 ambulances rushed to the scene, and rescue workers feverishly tended to victims in the blood-pooled street. As night fell on Akihabara, several pedestrians stopped by and prayed at the crime scene. A bouquet of flowers, bottles of green tea and incense sticks were placed at the site. Once rare, stabbing attacks have become more frequent in Japan in recent years as violent crime has increased. In March, one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a slashing spree with two knives outside a shopping mall in eastern Japan. In one of the worst attacks, a man with a history of mental illness burst into an elementary school in Japan on June 9, 2001, and killed eight children. The killer was executed in 2004.
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AP California Woman Again Pregnant by Foster Son ANTIOCH, CALIFORNIA - A woman ordered to stay away from her former foster son after having the boy's child is again pregnant by the 17-year-old. C.W. says she and the boy love each other and she should not be punished for their relationship. She was 27 and the foster child 14 when they began having sex. She gave birth to a boy last year while serving an eight-month jail term for unlawful sexual intercourse. In Wednesday's Contra Costa Times, C.W. said she loved the boy. "I just want everyone to know that I am not a child molester." The boy told a probation officer he wants to live with C.W. and raise their children, according to court records. The probation officer said the boy's father, who lives in Santa Cruz, supports the relationship because he "wants his son to be happy." http://www.topix.com/forum/news/sex/TCKJF6HCUCCKF3FDR/p14#lastPost | Back to Home Page - Women Who Rape
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Tree man: 'I want to get married'Monday, April 14, 2008 
Dede Koswara says he hopes to get married again A man dubbed 'Tree Man of Java' is planning to get married after 4lb of bark were cut away. Dede Koswara, 37, says he plans to get hitched now that he can use his hands and walk without pain.
« Back To Crime Top Man held for trespassing confesses to killing missing woman, chopping up body Monday 26th May, 01:18 AM JST TOKYO — A man arrested on suspicion of trespassing into the apartment of a woman missing for more than a month has admitted to killing her, police said Monday. Temp worker Takanori Hoshijima, 33, was quoted as telling investigators he killed office worker Rurika Tojo, 23, and cut her body into small pieces so as to flush them down the toilet. Hoshijima lives two doors down from Tojo on the ninth floor of a condominium in Tokyo’s Koto Ward.
Hoshijima was arrested Sunday on suspicion of breaking into Tojo’s apartment at around 7:30 p.m. on April 18 with the aim of sexually assaulting her, according to police. His fingerprints were found in Tojo’s apartment, they added. Tojo’s older sister, who lived with her, returned to the apartment 1 hour and 15 minutes later and found her sister missing, they said. Records of a surveillance camera at the condo indicate that Tojo did not leave the building after returning home, prompting the investigators to check all 150 rooms there, including Hoshijima’s, several times.
« Back To National Top TV announcer Ako Kawada found dead in car in apparent suicide Monday 26th May, 12:59 PM JST TOKYO — Freelance TV announcer Ako Kawada, 29, was found dead in her car in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Monday morning, in what police believe was a suicide. Police said they received a call from a passerby just after 6 a.m., saying that a woman was slumped in the front seat of her car. When police arrived, they found Kawada dead and two charcoal briquettes in the backseat. The car was parked up the road from where she lived, police said, adding there was a note on the front seat addressed to Kawada’s parents. Kawada, who was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, was on the TBS network from 2002 until March 2007. Since then, she has been a freelance announcer, most recently for TV Asahi’s “Saturday Scramble” program. On her blog last week, Kawada had said she was worn out and needed a break.
A Mexican prison normally used to house humans, is home for a donkey. Not just any donkey, but a donkey that was "arrested" for assaulting two people near a ranch near Chiapas State in Mexico. The donkey will be held until its owner Mauro Gutierrez agrees to pay the injured parties medical bills of $420.00. In 2006 Mexican officials locked up a dog who bit a person, until the owner paid a $12 fine. How will Mexican officals treat the donkey? That is the million dollar question!
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Rodica Trandafir, 60, from Bacau county in eastern Romania, posted the results of her virginity test to neighbours to stop rumours in her hometown.
She told local media: "I'd had enough of locals gossiping - they said men kept coming to my house at all times of the day and night."
She has now visited a gynaecologist who confirmed she was a virgin and gave her a certificate to prove it - which she then posted it to all her neighbours.
She added: "There has been some nasty gossip about me. The men my neighbours are talking about are relatives who are helping me do some work on my house.
"To make such accusations about a woman of my age is disgusting. I hope now they will all shut up. To claim I am a loose woman of any kind is outrageous."
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A married man who used to be a woman says that he is pregnant and will give birth to a baby girl in July. “How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible,” wrote Thomas Beatie, 34, from the Pacific North West of the United States, in the latest issue of the gay magazine The Advocate. “Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.” Mr Beatie was born female, named Tracy Lagondino, but had gender reassignment surgery and is now legally male and married to a woman. He decided to carry a baby for his wife, Nancy, because she had a hysterectomy years ago. He was able to get pregnant because he kept his female organs when he switched genders. “Sterilisation is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,” he writes. “Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire but a human desire.” The couple, who have been together for ten years, run a custom screenprinting business in Bend, Oregon, where neighbours do not know that Mr Beatie was once a woman. “Our desire to work hard, buy our first home and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child,” he wrote. Before becoming pregnant, Mr Beatie stopped the testosterone injections he was receiving as part of his gender reassignment. “It had been roughly eight years since I had my last menstrual cycle so this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly. My body regulated itself after about four months and I didn’t have to take any exogenous oestrogen, progesterone or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy,” he wrote. The couple bought donor vials from a cryogenic sperm bank and, facing resistance and prejudice from doctors, resorted to home insemination. “Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. Healthcare professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognise Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy’s family doesn’t even know I’m transgender,” he said. Mr Beatie’s first successful insemination ended in a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy with triplets that required surgery, resulting in the loss of all his embryos and his right Fallopian tube. “When my brother found out about my loss, he said, ‘It’s a good thing that happened. Who knows what kind of monster it would have been?’,” he wrote. The second pregnancy resulted in a baby girl who is due to be born on July 3. “I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family,” he wrote. Mr Beatie would not be the first transgender man to give birth, according to Lisa Masterson, an obstetrician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. “A transgender man can be pregnant because he has the same organs as a woman,” Dr Masterson said on the ABC Good Morning America show. Dr Masterson said, however, that transgendered men face special health risks resulting from their sex change. “It’s really important that he doesn’t take any testosterone early on in the pregnancy and later on,” she said. “That can cause male-type characteristics in the female baby.” Some of the Beaties’ neighbours in Bend voiced scepticism about the pregnancy claim. One resident, Josh Love, told ABC: “I couldn’t say that he looks pregnant. I can stick my stomach out and almost make it look like that. I think it’s kind of bizarre. I don’t know if I believe it or not.” The Advocate said it had confirmed the story with Mr Beatie’s doctor.
The memoir "Homeless Junior High School Student" is much talked of nowadays — because its author, 28-year-old comedian Hiroshi Tamura, is something of a celebrity; because his subject is a harrowing one; and because the book has sold more than a million copies. Tamura was a child when his mother died, a teenager when his father decamped, and there he was, homeless and sleeping in parks. Is Tamura's former plight unique? By no means, says journalist Masaki Kubota, writing in Sapio. There is — for example — Aya. Now 17, Aya had her first taste of homelessness at 14. Unlike Tamura, she wasn't alone. She was with her parents. Did that make it better, or worse? The family is from Kyushu, where her father ran a small restaurant and, for reasons not mentioned, fell deeply into debt. There was no help for it — the three fled in the dead of night. "At first," Aya tells Kubota, "it was fun, like a family trip." Her father had a friend in Osaka who owned a company. He could work there. There was even company housing. Getting settled would be easy. They got off the shinkansen at Shin-Osaka Station and checked into a business hotel. Then dad went off to present himself to his new employer. "That night," says Aya, "he came home looking crushed." Had the friend let him down? Or had he not existed in the first place? We don't know, but anyway, "Mom and dad had this big fight." For two days Aya and her mother holed up in the hotel while dad went job-hunting. On the third day mom said grimly, "Pack up, we're leaving." Aya thought they were moving to another hotel. Wrong. They were moving to Umeda Park. "Sleeping on the grass wasn't so bad," Aya recalls. "It was summer, so it wasn't cold. As long as it didn't rain . . . " Dad procured blankets somewhere, which helped them sleep. Meals were convenience-store bento (boxed lunches). During the day, while dad trudged about looked for work, Aya and her mother killed time in shopping malls, departments stores, coffee shops. Days passed, and money grew ominously tight. Coffee shops were off limits, bento too expensive. The family began living on instant noodles. A trip to the public bath became an infrequent luxury. Then suddenly Aya was sent to her grandmother's in Kyushu. The understanding was that her parents would send for her when they could, but instead, sometime later, the mother showed up in Kyushu with the news that the couple had divorced. "It seemed," says Aya, "that dad hadn't really been looking for a job after all." Then there's Mika, also 17. She left home two years ago when her parents divorced. From Hyogo Prefecture she made her way to Osaka, thinking, "It's a big city — something's bound to happen." As she roamed the shopping malls she was scouted often by sex-club touts — who backed off, however, when she mentioned her age. But one possibility did open up. "Go to a deai cafe," someone told her. "Deai" means "encounter." The idea is that girls get paid by guys interested in dating them. The going rates are ¥5,000 for a dinner date, ¥10,000 for karaoke, and so on. "I do not do sex," Mika asserts. "Lots of girls do, but if a guy wants to take me to a hotel after dinner, I absolutely refuse." Deai cafes are Mika's salvation from homelessness. She meets people she likes, earns money, and always feels she has a place to go. Likewise Aya, who soon tired of life with her mother and grandmother and drifted back to Osaka. "The cafes are heaven compared to the park," she says. Kubota admires her resilience but fears for her future. Homeless teens, he writes, "may be adapting too well. In a little while they won't be 'homeless junior high school students' anymore. They'll be plain homeless."
Warrant served on man on suspicion of killing Filipina Tuesday 29th April, 07:00 AM JST TOKYO — A 48-year-old Japanese man was served a fresh arrest warrant Monday on suspicion of killing a Filipina woman whose body he also allegedly dismembered at an apartment in Tokyo’s Odaiba waterfront area, police said. The suspect, Hiroshi Nozaki, 48, allegedly admitted to the charges, saying he killed Honiefaith Ratilia Kamiosawa, 22, because she ignored him despite his devotion to her and that he dismembered her body as he wanted to possess her. Some other body parts of hers have also been found in a coin locker and a canal in Tokyo. Nozaki allegedly strangled the Filipina and cut up her body in the 26th-floor unit of a high-rise condominium in the Odaiba waterfront district on April 3. The apartment was shared by Nozaki, Kamiosawa and two other Filipinas, all of whom worked in the same food service shop in Roppongi.
Mom Kills 8 of her Babies - Get's just 15 Years in Prison
link15 years for mom who killed her 8 babiesStory Highlights
German woman convicted for killing her 8 babies to serve 15 years in prison
Sabine Hilschenz, 42, originally convicted of manslaughter charges in 2006
Court says it found no grounds for defense's claim of diminished responsibility
FRANKFURT AN DER ODER, Germany (AP) -- A German woman convicted of killing eight of her babies must serve the maximum 15 years in prison, a court ruled Monday.
Sabine Hilschenz's defense attorney had asked for a revised sentence of less than 10 years in prison.
Sabine Hilschenz, 42, was convicted in 2006 of killing eight of her newborn babies and burying them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the German-Polish border.
The eight children were born between 1992 and 1998. Hilschenz also was suspected in the death of a ninth child in 1988, but the statute of limitations did not allow for that case to be tried.
After her original conviction on manslaughter charges in a state court in Frankfurt an der Oder, on the Polish border, she was given the maximum 15-year prison sentence.
But the Federal Court of Justice ruled last year that the lower court had not sufficiently considered the possibility of diminished capacity in making its recommendation, and sent the case back for reconsideration.
In its ruling Monday, the court in Frankfurt an der Oder said it found no grounds for the claim of diminished responsibility.
Hilschenz declined to testify at her original trial said at a hearing this year that she had a serious problem with alcohol in the years when the children were born and could not remember how they died.
Her defense attorney had asked for a revised sentence of less than 10 years in prison. E-mail to a friend
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court didn't find any grounds for a defense of "diminished capacity" which means they ruled she was fully aware of what she was doing and yet she only got 15 years. WOW
"Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. Truly it is the heart."
Body parts recovered from locker confirmed to be those of Filipina Friday 11th April, 12:32 PM JST TOKYO — Body parts recovered from a coin locker in Tokyo last Monday have been confirmed to be those of a Philippine woman, a part of whose dismembered body was found last week in a Tokyo condo unit, police sources said Friday. Police have already arrested a 48-year-old Japanese man over the death of the Filipina, who the police identified as Honiefaith Ratilia Kamiosawa, 22, a food service worker.
The man, Hiroshi Nozaki, was arrested Monday on suspicion of damaging the body of the woman. Nozaki allegedly cut up the Filipina’s body in the 26th-floor unit of a high-rise condominium in the Odaiba waterfront district in Tokyo on April 3, the sources said. The condo unit was shared by Nozaki, Kamiosawa and two other Filipinas, all of whom worked in the same food service shop in the Roppongi amusement district, according to the police sources.
Brits flooding to Croatia to buy up new homes might want to consider the latest launching on the housing market. 
It's not exactly shipshape inside, despite the ship shaped exterior, and the current owners admit standards have fallen since the good ship Mirko was built 25 years ago. But the family that originally commissioned the ship home in Cista Velika, in southern Croatia, say it has served them well and are hoping the new owners will be able to give it a new lease of life. Owner Ante Ancic, 63, said: "It was my wife and mine's idea to open a fish restaurant and we went for a nautical theme - hence the ship. "But once we got used to it we realised that instead of doing that we really liked it so much we wanted to live in it. "It's bigger than a usual house and has taken a bit of work to look after over the years, cleaning it from top to bottom really was a case of all hands on deck. We would get the entire family, as well as uncles, aunts, cousins and friends involved. "Now it's too much for us and the kids have moved out, so we want to find a new captain." Ancic refused to say how much money he wanted for it but said: "There might be a bit of a discount going if a real sailor looking to finally weigh anchor comes along and puts in an offer. We don't want it knocked down."
Mother arrested for strangling 9-year-old son in Aomori Wednesday 02nd April, 09:54 AM JST AOMORI — Police on Tuesday arrested a woman for strangling her 9-year-old son at their house in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture. Miki Nishiyama, 30, was arrested for allegedly strangling her son Takumi, 9, with an electric cord in his room on the second floor of their house around 9 a.m. Her mother found Takumi dead and called police. According to police investigations, Nishiyama strangled Takumi while he was sleeping. She has admitted to the charge, police said. The head of a local school said Takumi was about to start school on April 7. He was awarded a prize for his poem titled “Mother Fat” in 2007, a neighbor said. Nishiyama has so far given no motive, police said.
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