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| | Impeach the Tokyo High Court for rejecting a second request for a retrial by Kazuo Ishikawa! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Friday, July 9, The Tokyo High Court rejected a second request for a retrial by Kazuo Ishikawa, an innocent "burakumin," who served 31 years in prison for the 1963 "Sayama" killing of a 16-year-old girl. |
 | | Ishikawa was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping for ransam and killing Yoshie Nakata, a high school girl, in May 1963 in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture. |
 | | Buraku Liberation League and Ishikawa's supporters claimed his prosecution, based on sloppy investigation, was part of continuing discrimination against "burakumin," descendants of former "social outcasts." Burakumin have the same racial and national origins as other Japanese, but have been subject to prejudice and discrimination for hundreds of years since feudal times. |
| www.ngy.1st.ne.jp /~ieg/struggle/japan/1999/sayamae.htm (495 words) |
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