Large-scale rice mill plant completed in Miyagi Pref.

Large-scale rice mill plant completed in Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - Butai-Agri-innovation Co. President Nobuo Hariu (extreme R) and Iris Oyama Inc. President Kentaro Oyama (extreme L) attend an event to commemorate the completion of a large-scale rice mill plant in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2014.

Bus company head arrested over highway accident

Bus company head arrested over highway accident

TAKASAKI, Japan - Yumihide Hariu, president of tour bus operator Rikuentai, is escorted to a police station in Gunma Prefecture on May 28, 2012, after being arrested over Japan's worst single-vehicle highway accident the previous month in the prefecture that killed seven passengers and injured 38 others. Hariu, 55, is suspected of allowing driver Kazan Kono to use his company's name to obtain business permits for Kono's four buses in violation of the Road Transportation Law. (Kyodo)

Bus company pres. arrested over highway accident

Bus company pres. arrested over highway accident

CHIBA, Japan - Investigators from the Gunma prefectural police arrive at the home-cum-office of Yumihide Hariu, president of tour bus operator Rikuentai, in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, at 6:55 a.m. on May 28, 2012, to search the premises over Japan's worst single-vehicle highway accident the previous month in Gunma Prefecture that killed seven passengers and injured 38 others. Hariu, 55, was arrested later in the day on suspicion of allowing driver Kazan Kono to use his company's name to obtain business permits for Kono's four buses in violation of the Road Transportation Law. (Kyodo)

Bus company pres. arrested over highway accident

Bus company pres. arrested over highway accident

CHIBA, Japan - Yumihide Hariu (R), president of tour bus operator Rikuentai, opens the door of his home-cum-office in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, as investigators from the Gunma prefectural police arrive there at 6:55 a.m. on May 28, 2012, to search the premises over Japan's worst single-vehicle highway accident the previous month in Gunma Prefecture that killed seven passengers and injured 38 others. Hariu, 55, was arrested later in the day on suspicion of allowing driver Kazan Kono to use his company's name to obtain business permits for Kono's four buses in violation of the Road Transportation Law. (Kyodo)