Foreign Ministry, hotel officials arrested over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Asakawa (file photo), an assistant director of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, is arrested Sept. 6, along with two Hotel New Otani officials, on suspicion of defrauding the state of some 400 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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