Welfare ministry official pleads not guilty to postal fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, heads for the Osaka District Court in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2010, to attend the first hearing of her trial. Muraki pleaded not guilty to the charge of issuing a fabricated ministry document that enabled a fictitious organization to abuse a mail discount system for the handicapped in 2004. (Kyodo)

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