Health ministry begins extensive screening of cows

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (L) and Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi (R) speak at a news conference Oct. 18. The health ministry has began nationwide screening of cows to be processed for human consumption for any signs of the deadly brain-wasting mad cow disease. The two ministers declared domestic beef safe to eat, saying that Only cows that test negative will be distributed on the market.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001086541

Registered date
2001/10/18 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2001 Kyodo News

Media size
1864 × 1713 pixel

Resolution
dpi

Deployment size
1.28(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

G-7 farm ministers' meeting in Miyazaki

(from L) Canadian Agriculture and Agri-food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack attend a joint press conference following a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven farm ministers in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2023.

Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Norihisa Tamura, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Kotaro Nogami and Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshi Kajiyama. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japan's reshuffled Cabinet pose in a group photo session at Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on June 4, 2012. Noda replaced five members of the 18-strong Cabinet, newly appointing (from top R to L) Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto, Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Yuichiro Hata, (from bottom R to L) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Akira Gunji, Justice Minister Makoto Taki and Financial Services Minister Tadahiro Matsushita.

G-7 agrees on coordinated forex intervention

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L center) and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa (R center) are surrounded by reporters at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on March 18, 2011, after a conference call with their Group of Seven counterparts. The G-7 agreed to step in the currency market in a coordinated manner to prevent the yen's sharp rise following the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Ministers show fresh resolve to revive Japan's farming

TOKYO, Japan - Industry minister Toshihiro Nikai (L) and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shigeru Ishiba, inspect strawberries produced by a so-called ''plant factory'' employing artificial lighting in the industry ministry's lobby, showing their resolve to work closer together to revive the country's farming industry.

Japan to return inedible foreign rice to exporting nations

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota speaks during a news conference at his ministry on Sept. 12. He said the government will return imported rice to exporting countries if it is found to be tainted and inedible as part of preventive measures against distribution of such rice in the Japanese market.

Gov't, hepatitis C patients sign accord to end legal battle

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (L) bows before the representatives of the plaintiffs in hepatitis C damages lawsuits against the state and drugmakers, at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 15 after the two sides signed a basic accord to end the protracted legal battle. The agreement is based on a law enacted last week offering blanket relief to those who contracted the liver illness through contaminated blood products such as fibrinogen which were administered to stop bleeding.

Gov't, hepatitis C patients sign accord to end legal battle

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (R) shakes hands with Michiko Yamaguchi, leader of the plaintiffs in hepatitis C damages lawsuits against the state and drugmakers, at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 15 after the two sides signed a basic accord to end the protracted legal battle. The agreement is based on a law enacted last week offering blanket relief to those who contracted the liver illness through contaminated blood products such as fibrinogen which were administered to stop bleeding.

Gov't rejects uniform compensation for all hepatitis C sufferers

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe bites his lip during a press conference on Dec. 20 after his ministry rejected a proposal from hepatitis C sufferers that the government pay compensation uniformly to all people who contracted the disease through tainted blood products to settle a long-standing damages lawsuit out of court.

Ministry finds initials, names of 118 hepatitis C patients

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe (R) meets with Natsuki Hayama (C), president of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp., and Takeshi Komine (L), the company's vice president, at the health ministry on Oct. 22, after the ministry said it has found documents with the names or initials of 118 out of 418 people who developed hepatitis C through the administration of a tainted blood product, reversing its earlier claim that it had no data to confirm any of their identities. The product was manufactured by now-defunct Green Cross Corp., which was taken over by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma.