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TIL after 20-year-old US Marine Lori Padilla killed Rojita Kinjo and her young daughters Mitsuko and Mariko while speeding in Okinawa, Japan, a court ruled that Padilla should pay the victims' family 62 million yen, but as she had already left Japan, the amount was paid by the US and Japan

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