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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

HIKONE, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison. (Kyodo)

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi (far R) bows in apology to former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama (far L), alongside her parents and lawyer, at a prefectural government building in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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III International Symposium on Specifics of managing patients with war trauma and post-traumatic disorders held in Ivano-Frankiv

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, UKRAINE - APRIL 22, 2024 - Chief Nurse of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Hospital Nataliia Ruzhylo attends the III International Symposium "Specifics of managing patients with war traumas and post-traumatic disorders", Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine.

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Hong Kong, mainland healthcare professionals exchange brings mutual inspiration

STORY: Hong Kong, mainland healthcare professionals exchange brings mutual inspiration DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:23 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of healthcare professionals from the Chinese mainland arriving in Hong Kong 2. various of Princess Margaret Hospital 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Cantonese): YEUNG YIU-CHEONG, Deputy chief of service of medicine and geriatrics of Princess Margaret Hospital 4. various of hospital 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LIU JIALI, Nurse from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center 6. various of hospital 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Cantonese): SAVINA SZE, Nurse consultant of gerontology from the Hospital Authority 8. various of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital STORYLINE: About six months ago, a group of new faces appeared in the medical team of Hong Kong's public hospitals. Over 80 healthcare professionals from the Chinese mainland came to Hong Kong to exchange for about a year under Greater Bay Area Healthcare Talents Visiting Programs. The visit

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Medical workers on frontline of treating COVID-19 patients

STORY: Medical workers on frontline of treating COVID-19 patients DATELINE: Jan. 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:25 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of medical workers 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU JUAN, Co-chief Nurse, Jiangsu Province Hospital 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SUN KAI, Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine Department, Jiangsu Province Hospital 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG JIE, Clinic doctor of Zhongfu Village 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): ZHANG JIE, Clinic doctor of Zhongfu Village 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): JIA LIQI, Emergency doctor in Beijing Chaoyang Emergency Rescuing Center 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (Chinese): YI WENFENG, Deputy chief physician of a hospital's intensive care unit STORYLINE: Emergency room of Jiangsu Province Hospital E China's Jiangsu Voice of a medical worker "Please register over there." SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU JUAN, Co-chief Nurse, Jiangsu Province Hospital "The patients are mostly elderly people with a lung infection, hypoxia, and there are also some fever patie

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Emergency department, ICU cope with influx of COVID-19 patients in S China hospital

STORY: Emergency department, ICU cope with influx of COVID-19 patients in S China hospital DATELINE: Dec. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): HUANG KAIYING, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of hospital 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CEN ZHIYUAN, Deputy director of the hospital's emergency department 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LEI PING, Deputy head nurse of the hospital's emergency department 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LU LIN, Deputy head nurse of the hospital's intensive care unit 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): YANG QINGMEI, Head nurse of the hospital's intensive care unit 7. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): YI WENFENG, Deputy chief physician of the hospital's intensive care unit STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): HUANG KAIYING, Xinhua correspondent "I'm now at the First People's Hospital of Nanning in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In recent days, the hospital's emergency department and intensive care unit are seeing an influx of patients infected w

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Duty to work led midwife to put others' safety 1st in tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 19, 2013 shows part of a page of the business diary at maternity hospital Ikeno Clinic in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, where midwife Yukie Aoyama works as a chief nurse. Written in the section of March 11, 2011 were encircled characters meaning a big earthquake. (Photo by Yohei Kanasashi)

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Japanese medical team ends mission in flood-hit Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Yuichi Koido (R), primary doctor of a Japanese medical team, and Kiyomi Sugiyama, nurse chief, speak at a hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sept. 23, 2010, after completing a medical relief mission in the flood-hit Punjab region. Koido said improvement of infrastructure is the primary necessity as many health problems including malaria are caused by poor sanitary conditions.

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(1)5th survivor on N. Korea list can be Niigata nurse

TOKYO, Japan - A person on a North Korean list of missing Japanese still alive and living in North Korea is probably Hitomi Soga (file photo), a female nurse who went missing from an island in the Sea of Japan in 1978, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda suggested at a news conference on Sept. 20.

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-HOSPITAL-MEDICAL SERVICE (CN)

(220420) -- SHANGHAI, April 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chief nurse Jin Yi (L) learns about the condition of a patient in Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital in east China's Shanghai, April 20, 2022. Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital has made efforts to ensure medical services for citizens with epidemic prevention and control measures amid recent resurgence of COVID-19 in the city. (Xinhua/Chen Jianli)

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Thousands of medics nationwide rushing to aid Shanghai in COVID-19 response

STORY: Thousands of medics nationwide rushing to aid Shanghai in COVID-19 response DATELINE: April 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of medics arriving in Shanghai 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GAO HONGYI, Associate chief nurse of Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Shandong Province 2. various of trains carrying food and medicine arriving in Shanghai STORYLINE: As of Sunday, around 10,000 medics nationwide have rushed to China's business hub Shanghai to aid the megacity to fight against the resurging COVID-19. On Sunday, thousands of medics from provincial-level regions such as Tianjin, Hubei, Shandong and Jiangxi arrived in the megacity with a population of 25 million by 10 high-speed trains. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GAO HONGYI, Associate chief nurse, Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Shandong Province "Our team consists of 23 medical staff from emergency, critical care, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, respiratory

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nes (1975)

Will Sampson, Nathan George & Louise Fletcher Characters: Chief Bromden,Washington & Nurse Mildred Ratched Film: One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest (USA 1975) Director: Milos Forman 19 November 1975 Date: 19 November 1975

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Japanese medical team ends mission in flood-hit Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Yuichi Koido (R), primary doctor of a Japanese medical team, and Kiyomi Sugiyama, nurse chief, speak at a hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sept. 23, 2010, after completing a medical relief mission in the flood-hit Punjab region. Koido said improvement of infrastructure is the primary necessity as many health problems including malaria are caused by poor sanitary conditions. (Kyodo)

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U.S. toymaker donates $1 mil., Hello Kitty dolls to relief effort

TOKYO, Japan - Ty Warner (R), president and chief executive officer of U.S. toymaker Ty Inc., presents a certificate pledging to donate $1 million and the earnings from worldwide sales of a special Hello Kitty doll to help people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Warner made the pledge to Japanese Red Cross Society President Tadateru Konoe at the headquarters of the society in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Sept. 16, 2011. In early September, the toy maker donated ''I Love Japan'' Hello Kitty nurse dolls to children in Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital in Miyagi Prefecture, which was ravaged by the disaster. The stuffed animal has been sold worldwide since May to raise funds to help relief effort. (Kyodo)

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(1)5th survivor on N. Korea list can be Niigata nurse

TOKYO, Japan - A person on a North Korean list of missing Japanese still alive and living in North Korea is probably Hitomi Soga (file photo), a female nurse who went missing from an island in the Sea of Japan in 1978, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda suggested at a news conference on Sept. 20. (Kyodo)