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

OSAKA, Japan - Masao Yamazaki, former president of West Japan Railway Co., winces during a news conference in Osaka on Sept. 25, 2009. Yamazaki met the press after a revelation that a then member of the government's transport accident investigation commission leaked a draft report on the 2005 fatal train derailment accident in Hyogo Prefecture to the railway operator in response to Yamazaki's repeated requests.

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