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MITO--The Mito District Court on June 30 rejected a mental-incompetency defense and sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife and their five children and setting the bodies on fire.

MITO--Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa is shrugging off a recent survey that ranked his prefecture as the least attractive in all of Japan. “There are various ways to see attractiveness and each ...