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LEAD: Comsn's at-home nursing-care operations to be sold to 16 entities

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Hotta (L), chairman of a third-party panel of scandal-tainted care service company Comsn Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4 where the panel says it has selected 16 entities to buy the company's at-home nursing-care operations.

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Comsn to sell nursing-care business after April

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Higuchi (R), president of Comsn Inc., meets with Shinji Asonuma (L), director general of the Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in Tokyo on June 13.

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Nichii-Goodwill top-level meeting eyed on Thurs. at earliest

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show Nichii Gakkan Co. Chairman Akihiko Terada (L) and Goodwill Group Inc. Chairman Masahiro Origuchi, who are expected to meet on June 13 at the earliest over Nichii's possible purchase of Goodwill's scandal-tainted nursing-care unit Comsn Inc.

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Higuchi (L), president of Comsn Inc., and Masahiro Origuchi (C), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations.

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Origuchi (R), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., and Koichi Higuchi, president of Comsn Inc., hold a news conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations.

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Minister eyes legal revision over Comsn business handover plan

TOKYO, Japan - Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa testifies before a House of Representatives panel on June 8, pledging to study a legal revision in response to an apparent attempt by nursing-care firm Comsn Inc. to dodge government punishment using a legal loophole over fraudulent business license applications. The government move came a day after Comsn concluded an agreement with NSS Corp. to hand over its business to one of its group companies. Comsn had obtained some of the licenses through fraudulent applications.

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Operating licenses of most Comsn nursing-care units to be aborted

TOKYO, Japan - The Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, where the head office of Comsn Inc. is located. Nearly 80 percent of the operating licenses for nursing-care centers run by Comsn will be terminated after the firm was found to have obtained some of the licenses through fraudulent applications, welfare ministry officials said June 6.

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Gov't shifts emphasis of nursing care from quantity to quality

TOKYO, Japan - A huge screen in Tokyo's Chuo Ward reports news of the government's decision to terminate the operating licenses of many of the nursing-care centers run by major nursing-care service Comsn Inc.

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Minister eyes legal revision over Comsn business handover plan

TOKYO, Japan - Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa testifies before a House of Representatives panel on June 8, pledging to study a legal revision in response to an apparent attempt by nursing-care firm Comsn Inc. to dodge government punishment using a legal loophole over fraudulent business license applications. The government move came a day after Comsn concluded an agreement with NSS Corp. to hand over its business to one of its group companies. Comsn had obtained some of the licenses through fraudulent applications. (Kyodo)

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Nichii-Goodwill top-level meeting eyed on Thurs. at earliest

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show Nichii Gakkan Co. Chairman Akihiko Terada (L) and Goodwill Group Inc. Chairman Masahiro Origuchi, who are expected to meet on June 13 at the earliest over Nichii's possible purchase of Goodwill's scandal-tainted nursing-care unit Comsn Inc. (Kyodo)

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Comsn to sell nursing-care business after April

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Higuchi (R), president of Comsn Inc., meets with Shinji Asonuma (L), director general of the Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in Tokyo on June 13. (Kyodo)

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LEAD: Comsn's at-home nursing-care operations to be sold to 16 e

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Hotta (L), chairman of a third-party panel of scandal-tainted care service company Comsn Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4 where the panel says it has selected 16 entities to buy the company's at-home nursing-care operations. (Kyodo)

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Origuchi (R), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., and Koichi Higuchi, president of Comsn Inc., hold a news conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations. (Kyodo)

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Higuchi (L), president of Comsn Inc., and Masahiro Origuchi (C), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations. (Kyodo)

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Operating licenses of most Comsn nursing-care units to be aborte

TOKYO, Japan - The Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, where the head office of Comsn Inc. is located. Nearly 80 percent of the operating licenses for nursing-care centers run by Comsn will be terminated after the firm was found to have obtained some of the licenses through fraudulent applications, welfare ministry officials said June 6. (Kyodo)