A 73-year-old man received a suspended sentence Wednesday for illegally confining his mentally ill son in a wooden cage for years at their home in the western Japan city of Sanda.The Kobe District Court sentenced Yoshitane Yamasaki to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for locking his 42-year-old son in the cage, measuring 1 meter high, 0.9 meter wide and 1.8 meters long, in a prefabricated hut.Presiding Judge Kimikazu Murakawa said the defendant did not make sufficient efforts to find alternative means to deal with his son and "significantly hurt his dignity" by keeping him in…READ FULL ARTICLE