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Lindsay Hawker’s Japanese killer jailed
A Japanese man is sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and killing English teacher Lindsay Hawker and burying her body in a sand-filled bathtub in Tokyo in 2007.
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Japanese man admits killing Lindsay Ann Hawker
A Japanese man has admitted raping and strangling British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker. On the first day of his murder trial Tatsuya Ichihashi told the court he did not mean to kill the 22-year-old.
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Japan crisis: nuclear compensation plan agreed
The operator of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant have agreed to a major restructuring plan in return for government help in paying compensation to tens of thousands of people.
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Japan: Fukushima workers re-enter damaged plant
Workers at Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have entered one of the reactor buildings for the first time since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a crippling explosion.
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Japan bans people from entering Fukushima evacuation zone
Japan has banned people from entering a 12 mile evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant following the tsunami. People will now only be able to go there under Government supervision.
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Japan tsunami video: panic as people flee for their lives
New footage has emerged of Japanese residents trying desperately to outrun the incoming tsunami, as huge torrents of water crash through a coastal town carrying houses and people in its wake.
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Japan raises nuclear crisis to Chernobyl level
The Fukushima incident is given the highest rating of 7, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says the amount of radioation at Chernobyl was ‘far higher’.
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Another earthquake rocks Japan
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the north east coast of Japan, as the region struggles to recover from last month’s devastating quake and tsunami. Alex Thomson speaks to people in Japan.
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Liam Gallagher on Japan’s ‘horrific’ tsunami
Liam Gallagher performs with his band Beady Eye at the Brixton Academy tonight in a concert to raise money for victims of last month’s Japan tsunami. Alex Thomson spoke to him after the sound check.
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Japan: life in the shadow of nuclear crisis
As Japan’s government rejects advice to widen the evacuation zone around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, a farmer in Iwate Prefecture tells Channel 4 News of life in the shadow of the crisis.
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Japan nuclear setback as radiation rises at Fukushima plant
Workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have been evacuated after radioactivity in the water at reactor number 2 increased above the the usual limit. Radiation levels in Tokyo remain normal.
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Japanese nuclear power plant: friend of foe?
A nuclear plant in Japan, which is experiencing problems after the quake and tsunami, has taken in hundreds of local people who are homeless after the disaster. Alex Thomson tries to get inside to find out the full story but is denied access.
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Japan: 'Tsunami – what tsunami?'
Alex Thomson on the remarkable effort to keep Japan’s airports operational just ten days after the devastating tsunami.
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Japan: The clear up begins but many are still suffering
The Japanese Self-Defence forces are hard at work in Sendai but in evacuation centres across the stricken area, normal life is still hard to come by.
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Japan: the town that lost its walls but kept its dignity
The town of Taro’s walls are in ruins; an earth and concrete embankment gouged and worn to nothing by the influx of thousands of tonnes of Pacific Ocean, blogs Alex Thomson from Japan.