Japanese journalist freed on bail from Iran’s notorious Evin Prison

A Japanese national, who had been detained in Iran since January, has been released on bail, Tokyo confirmed on Tuesday.

Japanese freed in Iran not allowed to leave country: report

Iran has freed a Japanese national held since January, Tokyo said Tuesday, with Kyodo News reporting however that the ...
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A Japanese Who Served Time In A Belarusian Prison Wrote A Book About It

Japanese Kii Terchi has released a book about how he was imprisoned in Belarus and interrogated by the KGB because of his ...
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Man who assassinated former Japanese prime minister gets life in prison

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between ...
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For survivors of Japanese American prison camps, Trump’s deportation campaign has disturbing echoes

John Tateishi was just under three years old when he was sent to prison. He was never arrested or charged with a crime. But like over 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, he and ...