Firm raided over workers' bile duct cancer

Firm raided over workers' bile duct cancer

OSAKA, Japan - Investigators from the Osaka Labor Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare leave printing firm Sanyo-CYP Co. in Osaka on April 2, 2013, after confiscating documents during a search on suspicion that the company neglected its duty to take proper care of its workers' health. Seventeen workers suffered from bile duct cancer, eight of whom have died.

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