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Woman gets 14 yrs for killing child over 'snubbing'.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 10-DEC-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 5 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING PRESIDING JUDGE'S COMMENTS)

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 14 years in prison for killing in 1999 the 2-year-old daughter of an acquaintance she allegedly thought had snubbed her.

Mitsuko Yamada, 37, of Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, was found guilty of strangling Haruna Wakayama on Nov. 22, 1999, in a public lavatory near...

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