Roughly speaking The Tokyo District Court handed down a verdict in the case of the murder of a couple who owned a restaurant in Ueno, Tokyo. Defendants Hikaru Sasaki and Ayaken Hirayama, who are said to have acted as intermediaries, were both sentenced to 30 years in prison. The court found that ``the charges are as serious as those of other masterminds and perpetrators,'' and that they were considered co-principal offenders. Read article