From Japan’s Mainichi Daily News:

A [male] paramedic fined for assaulting and injuring his [paramedic] girlfriend, who had hired a hitman in an unsuccessful bid to kill his wife, was dismissed Friday from the Tokyo Fire Department on disciplinary grounds, officials said.

“We’ll tighten discipline among workers in the department in an effort to restore the public’s trust in us and prevent a recurrence,” said Yoshiaki Ishii, an official of the department’s public relations division.

Yes, please tighten things up a bit, Yoshiaki. We wouldn’t want a recurrence of the paramedic-hiring-a-hitman-to-kill-the-other-paramedic’s-wife scenario.

Media Orchard will assume something got lost in the translation.

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