Interpol issues Red Notice for Paul Watson – Sea Shepherd founder
An International Red Notice by the Interpol has been issued for warrior Paul Watson. Watson is known for his unconventional eco-conservation ways and his controversial marine conservation group Sea...
View ArticleCanada orders extradition of Chinese man for murders in Japan
A judge in the Ontario Superior Court has ordered Liang He, a Chinese national, to be extradited from Canada and sent back to Japan on the basis of passport fraud. However, many observers, including...
View ArticleAfter 15 years in prison, Nepal’s Mainali to finally be acquitted for murder
Govinda Prasad Mainali, 45, could finally be declared innocent after an acquittal for the murder of a Japanese woman in Tokyo in 1997. After the Tokyo High Court granted Mainali a retrial in June he...
View ArticleChinese firebomber to be extradited from South Korea to Japan
And the issues between Japan and China just keeps on piling up. South Korea is set to extradite Liu Quiang, the Chinese citizen who firebombed the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to Japan and face charges...
View ArticleSouth Korean court reject Japan’s extradition request for Chinese arsonist
Today a court in South Korea turned down a request from Japan to extradite a Chinese national who admitted to committing an arson attack at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine in December 2011. 38 year old Liu...
View ArticleTwo Somalians charged in Japan’s first trial over sea piracy
Two Somalian men accused of trying to hijack a Japanese tanker in March 2011 pleaded guilty in a Tokyo court on Tuesday in what is the country’s first prosecution of sea piracy. The two were among four...
View ArticleJapanese political activist charged with vandalism of South Korean comfort...
Nobuyuki Suzuki, a member of a right-wing Japanese political group, was indicted for allegedly vandalizing two monuments in Seoul, South Korea. According to prosecutors on Sunday, February 17, they...
View ArticleFirst Japanese extradited seeks parole 20 years after Hawaii murder
Raita Fukusaku, the man convicted of murdering well-known Japanese psychic Kototome Fujita and her son Goro in Hawaii in 1994, is asking to be paroled now that he has served half of his 40 year...
View ArticleEx-US sailor to be extradited to Japan over drug smuggling through military mail
Japanese police in Yokohama revealed this week that a former United States sailor was to be extradited to Japan on charges that he led a drug smuggling group in 2004. The unnamed, 31 year old man is...
View ArticleEx-US sailor indicted on drug smuggling charges in Yokohama court
A former United States sailor based in Yokosuka who was extradited back to Japan last month has been indicted on drug charges at the Yokohama District Court. 31 year old Jonathan Octavio Nunez is...
View ArticleNepal’s Mainali very unlikely to return to Japan if his retrial fails
Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man who, after roughly 15 years in prison, was finally granted a retrial in a
View ArticleJapan possibly contributing to Costa Rica’s charges against Paul Watson
Paul Watson, the leader of the marine activist group Sea Shepherd, remains detained in Frankfurt, Germany over crimes committed in
View ArticleSea Shepherd’s Paul Watson skips Germany bail over Japan extradition fears
Canadian Paul Watson, leader of the anti-whaling and environmental activist group Sea Shepherd, has skipped out on his bail in
View ArticleSea Shepherd’s Watson speaks about fleeing Germany, will continue fighting Japan
Just after skipping his bail in Germany last week, Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson has issued a statement from hiding
View ArticleCanada overrules extradition appeal from Chinese man wanted for 1995 Tokyo...
A decision from an Ontario court in Canada was upheld by a court of appeals on Monday to extradite a 42-year old Chinese man sought by the Japanese authorities. Japan is seeking the man as part of the...
View ArticleExtradition of Chinese national may shed light on 20-year-old Japan...
Japanese authorities are hoping that the extradition of a Chinese man from Canada, approved just this December, may help shed light on an unsolved 20-year-old murder of three female supermarket...
View Article2 Chinese nationals detained as suspects in 2002 murder of Japanese elderly...
Japanese officials recently revealed that police in China have detained two former students on the allegations that they were involved in the 2002 murder of a married couple in Oita Prefecture. The two...
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