of Japanese Brazilians who are not of mixed ancestry have also endeavoured to learn Japanese to native levels. However while such cases like these are high, the statistics fail to show high rate of such Japanese Brazilians succeeding to integrate into Japanese society because vast number of such people end up achieving Japanese naturalization. Once they obtain Japanese citizenship, regardless of whether or not the Japanese citizen is still considered to be a citizen of Brazil in the eyes of the Brazilian government, Japanese statistics record such people as only Japanese. If they pursue university in Japan, they must take exams alongside other native Japanese citizens. Thus even while Japan has many Japanese Brazilians that are completely bilingual, with Japanese statistics failing to count Japanese Brazilians who haveSarah Catt's jail term for full-term abortion reduced Published duration 12 June 2013

image caption Catt purchased a drug on the internet designed to induce a miscarriage

A woman jailed for aborting her baby a week before she was due to give birth has had her jail sentence reduced.

Sarah Catt was jailed for eight years in 2012 after taking a drug to induce an early delivery and then claiming the child was stillborn.

Catt, 36, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, has not revealed where she buried the boy's body.

The Court of Appeal ruled her original sentence was too long and cut it to three-and-a-half years.

Lady Justice Rafferty, head of the panel of three appeal judges, said it was a difficult sentencing exercise but the eight-year term was "manifestly excessive".

At Leeds Crown Court