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A 23-year-old Japanese woman has received a 27-year prison sentence for forcing a 17-year-old girl to fall off a bridge in Hokkaido in April 2024. The victim drowned in the river below.
Japanese authorities arrested a 35-year-old man in Mie Prefecture for confining his partner's five-year-old daughter inside a garbage can for approximately five minutes on May 12, describing the act as discipline.
Japanese police arrested a 36-year-old woman in Fukuoka on Thursday after she fatally stabbed a 33-year-old friend in a dawn attack. The victim's three elementary school children were sleeping in an adjacent room during the incident.