TOKYO: Japanese double Olympic judo gold medalist Masato Uchishiba lost an appeal on Wednesday against a five-year jail sentence for raping a teenage student.
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court’s verdict, rejecting his repeated claim that the sex was consensual, but Uchishiba’s defense counsel immediately appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
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