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Osaka Detention House
is a correctional facility in Miyakojima-ku, Osaka. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated by the Ministry of Justice. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is in this facility. Notable prisoners * Kaoru Kobayashi (hanged 21 February 2013) *Mamoru Takuma (hanged 14 September 2004) *Yukio Yamaji (hanged 28 July 2009) * Sokichi Furutani (hanged 31 May 1985) *Yoshihiro Inoue (hanged 6 July 2018) * Yasutoshi Kamata (hanged 25 March 2016) * Tomohiro Katō (hanged 26 July 2022) * Tomomitsu Niimi (hanged 6 July 2018) *Keizo Okamoto (hanged 27 December 2018) *Hiroya Suemori (hanged 27 December 2018) *Kenichi Watanabe (hanged 16 June 1988) *Tetsuya Yamagami Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan and a serving member of the House of Representatives, was assassinated on 8 July 2022 while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Whi ... (held pending mental evaluation) *Yoshio Yamasaki (hanged 17 Jun ...
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Osaka Detention House New Building
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Osaka was traditionally considered Japan's economic hub. By the Kofun period (300–538) it had developed into an important regional port, and in the 7th and 8th centuries, it served briefly as the imperial capital. Osaka continued to flourish during the Edo period (1603–1867) and became known as a center of Japanese culture. Following the Meiji Restoration, Osaka greatly expanded in size and underwent rapid industrialization. In 1889, Osaka was officially established as a municipality. The constructi ...
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Yoshihiro Inoue
was a former Aum Shinrikyo leader and terrorist who was executed in Japan in 2018. He was responsible for coordinating the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995. His holy name was Aananda and his stage in the cult was Master Shogo. Biography Inoue was born on December 28, 1969, in Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. During his childhood, he liked documentary programs and was interested in the problems of poverty and dog killing in the world. His father was a serious person, but he did not feel at home, and he and his wife often quarreled. His mother even attempted suicide once. After studying martial arts, yoga, and Agon Shu, in 1986, when he was a sophomore in high school, he attended the Aum Shinzen no Kai's Tanzawa Seminar. He was impressed by Shoko Asahara and felt that Asahara was like an ideal parent. In February 1988, he appeared with Aum members in NHK's "Ohayo Journal" ("Mysterious" Young People in the Midst of Changing Religious Consciousness). In March of the same year, he graduated ...
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Buildings And Structures In Osaka
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ...
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Tetsuya Yamagami
Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan and a serving member of the House of Representatives, was assassinated on 8 July 2022 while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. While delivering a campaign speech for a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate, he was shot from behind at close range by a man with a homemade firearm. Abe was transported by a medical helicopter to Nara Medical University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The suspect, 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami (), was arrested at the scene for attempted murder; the charge was later upgraded to murder after Abe was pronounced dead. Yamagami told investigators that he had shot Abe in relation to a grudge he held against the Unification Church (UC), to which Abe and his family had political ties, over his mother's bankruptcy in 2002. The alleged motive brought renewed interest from Japanese society and media regarding criticism against the UC's all ...
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Tomomitsu Niimi
was an Aum Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and a number of other crimes. He was Aum's "minister of internal affairs". Background Judge Yujiro Nakatani said that his Aum-related crimes began in 1989 with the strangulation killing of Shuji Taguchi, who had attempted to flee from the cult. He also murdered anti-cult lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and Sakamoto's wife and son the same year. Tokyo subway sarin attack Before the Tokyo subway gas attack, Asahara wanted to try the sarin gas on humans. He chose his rival, Daisaku Ikeda, the leader of Soka Gakkai, one of Japan's most popular "new religions". Asahara directed his men to rig a spraying device on a suitable vehicle at one of the nights when Ikeda was supposed to speak in public. All was going well until the device began to leak, splashing liquid sarin onto Niimi, Asahara's security chief. Kiyohide Hayakawa was present and quickly administered an antidote in time to p ...
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news c ...
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Tomohiro Katō
The was an incident of mass murder that took place on 8June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The perpetrator, 25-year-old of Susono, Shizuoka, drove into a crowd with a rented truck, initially killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least twelve people using a dagger, killing four other people and injuring eight. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Katō on suspicion of attempted murder, holding him at Manseibashi police station. Two days later on 10June, he was sent to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office. He was later re-arrested by the police on 20June on suspicion of murder. Katō was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in 2011. The sentence was upheld on appeal in 2015, and he was executed on 26 July 2022. Details Incident On 8June 2008, Tomohiro Katō drove a five-ton, rented Isuzu Elf truck into a crowd at the crossing of Kanda Myōjin-dōri and Chūō-dōri streets in Akihabara, ...
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Yasutoshi Kamata
, known as The Osaka Ripper, was a Japanese serial killer responsible for the murder and dismemberment of four women and one girl in Osaka between 1985 and 1994.(March 14, 1996) Asahi Shimbun: "Defendant K denies murdering women in Osaka" (in Japanese) The case was designated by the National Police Agency as "Metropolitan Designated Case No. 122".(June 13, 1995) Asahi Shimbun: "Re-arrest of suspect K in Metropolitan Designated Case No. 122" (in Japanese) At the time of the incident, the Osaka Prefectural Police considered it one its most important cases, investigated alongside the Glico Morinaga case.(March 24, 1999) Sankei Shimbun: "Defendant K sentenced for killing C-chan" (in Japanese) Background Yasutoshi Kamata was born on July 10, 1940, in the city of Ōzu.(May 13, 1995) Yomiuri Shimbun: "Suspect K confesses killing fifth woman 10 years ago" (in Japanese) The son of an inn proprietor, he married a local woman and worked as a disposable chopsticks salesman at a local inn, ...
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Sokichi Furutani
was a Japanese serial killer, who in the span between October 30 and December 12, 1965, murdered eight elderly men in a robbery-murder spree. He is also suspected of being responsible for murders of four other men, two of them occurring in 1951.Chunichi Shimbun (June 23, 1985) morning edition, p. 23, "Killing 8 Elderly, Furutani's Execution"] The crimes occurred in various parts of Western Japan, such as Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Kyoto, Shiga, Hyōgo and Fukuoka, with the seven murders and two attempted robberies being designated as "Police Agency Wide Area Important Designated Case No. 105 Case". This was the first case in the National Police Agency's designated area. Overview Furutani was born during the Taishō era, on February 16, 1914, in Tsushima, the eldest of five siblings.Yomiuri Shimbun (December 13, 1965), Tokyo morning edition, p.14 "Criminal with record convictions in wanderlust from ruthless mother: Furutani's childhood of bereavement and growing up in his unc ...
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Miyakojima-ku, Osaka
is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... External links Official website of Miyakojima Wards of Osaka {{Osaka-geo-stub ...
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Yukio Yamaji
was a Japanese serial killer. He murdered his own mother in 2000, was imprisoned, and then paroled in 2003. In 2005, two years after his release, he raped and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister, for which he was sentenced to death. He was executed in 2009. Biography Yamaji was born into a poor family. His father died of cirrhosis in January 1995. After graduating from junior high school, he dropped out and began working at a newspaper store. Matricide Yamaji killed his 50-year-old mother with a metal baseball bat in Yamaguchi city, Yamaguchi Prefecture at age 16 on July 29, 2000. He called the police and was arrested on July 31, 2000. He stated that his motives to commit matricide were his mother's silent telephone calls to the woman with whom he had fallen in love and his mother's mounting debt. He was paroled in October 2003. Double homicide On November 17, 2005, Yamaji raped and murdered a 27-year-old woman named Asuka Uehara and her 19-year-old ...
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Mamoru Takuma
was a Japanese mass murderer who killed eight children in the Osaka school massacre in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on 8 June 2001. Takuma had a long history of mentally disturbed and anti-social behaviour, and an extensive criminal record including a conviction for rape. He stabbed to death eight students and seriously wounded fifteen others at Ikeda Elementary School in a knife attack that lasted several minutes. Takuma was convicted in August 2003 and executed on 14 September 2004. Early life Mamoru Takuma was born on 23 November 1963 in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As a child, he displayed unusual and anti-social behavior: at the age of three, he rode his tricycle towards the center of a highway, causing traffic jams, and habitually killed small animals by wrapping them in newspaper and lighting them on fire. From elementary school to junior high, Takuma was both a victim and a perpetrator of bullying. He expressed envy and jealousy for the "highly educated and high-inc ...
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