By KUMIKO NAKATSUKA/ Staff Writer
December 30, 2019 at 16:15 JST
Gifts and letters overflow a table set up in Tokyo's Meguro Ward in memory of Yua Funato, the 5-year-old girl who died in March 2018 due to physical abuse by her parents. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The mother of a 5-year-old girl who died in a harrowing case of parental neglect and physical abuse now says she is determined her daughter's death will not end up being meaningless. [Read More]
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