Police in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of parental neglect after he left his four-year-old daughter unattended in a car parking lot at night.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 8 p.m. on Oct 11, Kyodo News reported. Police said Masayoshi Tateno, an employee of his father’s company in Kashima City, has admitted to the charge and quoted him as saying “My daughter wouldn’t listen to me, so I left her there to discipline her.”
Tateno lives with his wife and other family members. On the night of Oct 11, he drove to the parking lot, dropped off his daughter and left. A passerby noticed the girl walking along a street about two hours later, and notified the police. When officers arrived at the scene, the child told them she had been left behind at the parking facility.
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Man injures 3 junior high school children with bamboo sword
Japan Today – Oct 20
Police in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 37-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assault and trespassing after he entered the grounds of a junior high school and injured three students with a bamboo sword.
Japan’s Empress Emerita Michiko turns 88
NHK – Oct 20
Japan’s Empress Emerita Michiko turned 88 on Thursday.
The Empress Emerita moved in April from a temporary dwelling to her current residence in the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, where she lived when she was Crown Princess.
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Japanese Comedian Meshida – Oct 17
After the assassination, it was revealed many conservative politicians have a connection to the Unification Church and it has become a big problem. So today I’ll talk about the Unification Church and the politicians who are related to the Unification Church.
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Nobita from Japan – Oct 14
In 2016 around, media picked up an incident that a woman was tricked into porn which drew people’s attention a lot as a serious social issue of Japan.
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