Brothers acquitted of ritual murder of Japanese tourist in New Caledonia

Wednesday 29th April, 05:52 AM JST

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ichinensei at 08:32 AM JST - 29th April

poor girl
TokyoHustla at 10:51 AM JST - 29th April

They better write (or direct) a tell all.
smithinjapan at 11:49 AM JST - 29th April

What a sorry end for this woman. It makes me angry that a court error led to the man's early release. As to lack of evidence to lead to guilty convictions (or a reversal in the acquittal of the one brother), what can you do? No proper evidence, no guilt. The sentiment of the family as well as many others automatically want guilt for the people caught, but it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, as with everyone else. I feel sorry for the family.
whyamiinjapan at 11:54 AM JST - 29th April

Two outside articles. No real clear information except in French, if you Google around. A lot of hearsay, etc.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20020508a6.html

http://www.travelindustryreview.com/news/6923
mindovermatter at 12:20 PM JST - 29th April

Very tragic, and sad.

But you would hope more Japanese would learn from this, you just can't go gallivanting around the world by yourself at all hours of the day or night and expect to be perfectly safe like in Japan....

They need to teach more common sense in the k-12 system, it's seriously lacking...
mackemack at 02:33 PM JST - 29th April

mindovermatter..."perfectly safe like in Japan..."

Oh, I see...Japanese self-deprecating sarcasm.
dennis0bauer at 03:23 PM JST - 29th April

so but did they do it aor are the real killers still out there?
elbudamexicano at 05:58 PM JST - 29th April

Maybe the Japanese should BOY COTT traveling to New Caledonia?? This may help our francophone friends their understand that you should not "bite the the hand that feeds you" or in this case, you should not go and sacrifece innocent Japanese tourists who fly all the way to this island in the middle of no where to end up getting killed by these idiot islanders. RIP poor innocent J girl from Chiba!
polarmalik at 06:18 PM JST - 29th April

The Japanese tourists especially the women should be very careful where they go - there are a lot of weird people and psychopaths who look normal but have hidden evil deep inside and get pleasure in killing. The women should be more careful as they are delicate and cannot fight back and save themselves from such evil people. It is suggested that the Japan tourism department take remedial measures to safe-guard the Japanese tourist abroad.
Midnightpromise at 10:27 PM JST - 29th April

Time for good old fashioned older brother justice...........
Den Den at 07:24 AM JST - 30th April

Definitely time for diplomatic intervention and travel warnings. But you can't blame a whole country for this isolated tragedy. What does ritual murder mean. Was it an offering to volcano gods?
mirkwood at 12:08 AM JST - 1st May

> mindovermatter at 12:20 PM JST - 29th April ...perfectly safe like in Japan....

What a joke! Japan is not any safer than any parts of the world.