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A Man Who Claims to Be "God's Intermediary" Pleads Guilty to Charges at His First Trial for Assault, Including Kidnapping a Teenage Boy and Shaving Part of His Hair with Clippers

The trial of a man who claimed to be a "messenger of God" and was charged with kidnapping and assaulting a teenage boy has begun, and the man has admitted to the charges. The defendants, Yu Murakami, his brother Jun Murakami, and Jun Murakami's wife Rina Murakami, are accused of kidnapping a teenage boy from Nara Prefecture in Yokohama City in May of this year, and assaulting him by shaving part of his hair with clippers. Yu Murakami claimed to …
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The trial of a man who claimed to be a "messenger of God" and was charged with kidnapping and assaulting a teenage boy has begun, and the man has admitted to the charges. The defendants, Yu Murakami, his brother Jun Murakami, and Jun Murakami's wife Rina Murakami, are accused of kidnapping a teenage boy from Nara Prefecture in Yokohama City in May of this year, and assaulting him by shaving part of his hair with clippers. Yu Murakami claimed to …

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FNN.jpプライムオンライン broke the news on Friday, September 4, 2026.
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