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, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2010, after the first hearing of her trial at the Osaka District Court. 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)

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000331621

Registered date
2010/1/27 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
1303 × 1870 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
501.98(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

3-year extension sought for AUM surveillance

TOKYO, Japan - Michiaki Ozaki, director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, attends a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2011. The agency sought the same day to keep the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its splinter group under state surveillance for another three years, asserting they remain under the strong influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara and could still commit mass murder.

Ozawa speaks at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa reads out documents related to his trial during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011. Ozawa pleaded not guilty to a charge of violating the political funds control law at the first hearing of his trial earlier in the day. Ozawa faces trial over the alleged false reporting of funds handled by his political fund management body Rikuzankai in connection with a 2004 land deal. (Kyodo)

Ozawa speaks at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011. Ozawa pleaded not guilty to a charge of violating the political funds control law at the first hearing of his trial earlier in the day. Ozawa faces trial over the alleged false reporting of funds handled by his political fund management body Rikuzankai in connection with a 2004 land deal. (Kyodo)

Acquitted gov't official

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki, who was acquitted of a postal abuse charge, takes part in an advisory panel meeting to reform Japan's judicial system on Jan. 27, 2011, at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo. Muraki, who was wrongly charged by the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, urged the government to make the investigative process fully transparent. (Kyodo)

Acquitted welfare official returns to work

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki (C) is welcomed by her coworkers upon her arrival at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2010. Muraki was acquitted of a postal abuse charge and reinstated to the ministry after 15 months. (Kyodo)

Acquitted welfare official returns to work

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki shows her emotion at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2010, after she was acquitted of a postal abuse charge and reinstated to the ministry's job. (Kyodo)

Acquitted welfare official returns to work

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki (front) is welcomed by her coworkers upon her arrival at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2010. Muraki was acquitted of a postal abuse charge and reinstated to the ministry after 15 months. (Kyodo)

Acquitted welfare official returns to work

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki (L) receives the letter of appointment from Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2010. Muraki was acquitted of a postal abuse charge and reinstated to the ministry after 15 months. (Kyodo)