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True Crime Japan

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

True Crime Japan

By Paul Murphy

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About the book

A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year old woman is jailed for 10 months for stealing fried chicken. Like nearly all defendants in Japan, they both plead guilty. What happens between plea and sentencing is the subject of True Crime Japan. In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of Japanese society through a year's worth of crimi...Show more

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ISBN

9784805313428

Publisher

Tuttle Publishing

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

True Crime Japan

Format

Paperback

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