Panel member leaked draft report on fatal train crash to JR West

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Koichi Yamaguchi, a then member of the government's transport accident investigation commission who, according to government officials on Sept. 25, 2009, leaked a draft report on the 2005 fatal train derailment accident in Hyogo Prefecture to the railway operator, West Japan Railway Co.,

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