Archive for May, 2009
Disagreement with “Punishing foreigners, exonerating Japanese” (Debito Arudoul, Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090324zg.html
>> For example, consider the Hiroshi Nozaki Case. In 2000, Nozaki was caught flushing a Filipino woman’s body parts down a public toilet. However, he was not charged with murder — only with “abandoning a corpse” (shitai iki). That got him all of 3 1/2 years in jail. By 2008 he was stowing another dismembered [...]