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Japanese police arrest the perpetrator of sexual harassment in a train


TOKYO – Police Tokyo, Japan, began operations arrest offenders against women that often occur in commuter trains. Undercover police personnel are deployed in a number of trains full of passengers.

Under the guise of distributing leaflets, they aim to catch a group of abusers. The operation will last for one week.

As quoted from the page of the BBC, this morning, abusers can be up to seven years in prison in Japan. Police revealed that abusers use the Internet to coordinate their activities, and also form a kind of association.

Some suspect that in the last few months saying that they caught the train makes a certain direction as the target of a recommendation that they read on the website.

Last year, more than 6,000 people were arrested on suspicion of deliberately ran the passenger’s body or taking pictures of women who do not deserve object photographed.

According to a survey, nearly two-thirds of young women experiencing abuse in public transportation. Even the number of trains to provide a special car for women passengers.

President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan

Having had time to reap the controversy because bowed in front of King of Saudi Arabia, President Obama reaped more controversy because of bowing before the Emperor of Japan.
Several parties in the United States considers Obama violated the protocol, because the bows seemed to indicate a lower position than the King of Saudi Arabia or the Emperor of Japan, and as president and head of state, its position is equivalent to a king or emperor. But Obama said the party was merely a form of respect only.
Unlike the U.S., these bows exactly a warm welcome in Japan, and even got praise from various circles in Japan.

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Six Guantanamo Prisoners moved to Palau


guantanamoSix ethnic Uyghur people are detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, moved to the island nation of Palau, Sunday, November 1, 2009. According to the United States Department of Justice (U.S.) and the lawyers, the defendants will be free to rebuild their lives in the country in the Pacific Ocean.

The suspects are detained at a U.S. military base in Cuba for seven years arrived in Palau without cleared of all charges. The names of the former detainees who the U.S. Justice Department announced it was Tourson Ahmad, Abdul Rahman Abdul Ghappar, Edham Mamet, Anwar Hassan, Dawut Abdurehim, and Adel Noori.

“Nothing more could these people than live peacefully, productively in a free and democratic country, and safe from the pressure from China,” said Eric Tirschwell of the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, as quoted by the Straits Times page. “Thanks to Palau that offers temporary shelter for them, now they have a chance. We hope other countries will soon move forward to provide permanent shelter.”

The former prisoners are six of the 22 Muslim Uyghur, minority groups from the remote Xinjiang region in China, which was in a camp in Afghanistan during the U.S. led invasion began in October 2001.

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