Akita
(2002 est. pop. 1.2 million). Akita Prefecture is situated in the northern region of Japan's island of Honshu. Known for its mountainous terrain and heavy snowfalls, it occupies an area o...
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Police are searching for two people apparently washed away into
rivers Monday and Tuesday as heavy rain continued in the Tohoku
region due to warm, damp air flowing north fro...
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A woman charged with murdering her 9-year-old daughter and a
7-year-old boy from a neighboring house in Akita Prefecture last year
told a court on Wednesday that she now wants to receive capi...
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An Akita Prefecture woman suspected of murdering two children
including her own last year is expected to deny in her upcoming trial
that she intended to kill her 9-year-old daughter, informed...
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An Akita Prefecture woman suspected of murdering two children
including her own last year has denied her intent to kill her
9-year-old daughter, informed sources said Wednesday.
The denial...
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A woman charged with killing her daughter and a boy in her
neighborhood in Akita Prefecture in 2006 told a court Monday that she
was subjected to violence from...
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Prosecutors on Friday demanded the death penalty for a
34-year-old woman for murdering her 9-year-old daughter as well as a
7-year-old boy living in her neighborhood in a town in Akita
Prefe...
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Akita
LEAD: 2 washed away by rivers in Tohoku in typhoon-triggered heavy rain
