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Chicken farm operator in bird flu scandal shuts down

KOBE, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asa Nosan Co., an operator of a chicken farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, hit by a bird flu outbreak in February, speaks to reporters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 30. Asada Nosan has dismissed some 200 employees and shut down its business.

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(1)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asada Nosan Co. based in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, speak with reporters near his company on March 31 before a criminal complaint was filed against him and his company that apparently failed to report a bird flu outbreak promptly to the authorities in February.

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(2)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Reporters and photographers wait outside the head office of Asada Nosan Co. in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 31. Later in the day, the farm ministry and Kyoto prefectural government filed a criminal complaint with police against the company and its President Hideaki Asada for failing to report a bird flue outbreak to the authorities in February.

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(2)Top exec of bird flu-hit farm, wife hang themselves

OSAKA, Japan - Hajimu Asada (R), chairman of Asada Nosan Co. appeared despondent at a news conference in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 7. He and his wife Chisako were found to have hanged themselves on March 8 near a poultry house of the company's farm in Himeji on March 8. At left is Hideaki Asada, the couple's eldest son and president of Asada Nosan.

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Asada Nosan executives meet press

HIMEJI, Japan - Hideaki Asada (L in center), president of Asada Nosan Co., and Chairman Hajimu Asada (R in center) are surrounded by reporters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 2 after they held a news conference about the outbreak of bird flu at the company's Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture.

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(4)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asada Nosan, leaves the company's Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, by car on March 1. The farm reportedly planned to ship all its chickens to a chicken processor even though birds had been dying there in large numbers.

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Farm owner given suspended prison term over bird flu outbreak

KYOTO, Japan - Asada Nosan Co. President Hideaki Asada answers questions from reporters in Kyoto on Aug. 10 after the Kyoto District Court sentenced him to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for not reporting a bird flu outbreak at a farm in Kyoto Prefecture earlier this year. (Kyodo)

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Chicken farm operator in bird flu scandal shuts down

KOBE, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asa Nosan Co., an operator of a chicken farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, hit by a bird flu outbreak in February, speaks to reporters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 30. Asada Nosan has dismissed some 200 employees and shut down its business. (Kyodo)

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Asada Nosan executives meet press

HIMEJI, Japan - Hideaki Asada (L in center), president of Asada Nosan Co., and Chairman Hajimu Asada (R in center) are surrounded by reporters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 2 after they held a news conference about the outbreak of bird flu at the company's Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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(2)Top exec of bird flu-hit farm, wife hang themselves

OSAKA, Japan - Hajimu Asada (R), chairman of Asada Nosan Co. appeared despondent at a news conference in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 7. He and his wife Chisako were found to have hanged themselves on March 8 near a poultry house of the company's farm in Himeji on March 8. At left is Hideaki Asada, the couple's eldest son and president of Asada Nosan. (Kyodo)

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(2)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Reporters and photographers wait outside the head office of Asada Nosan Co. in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 31. Later in the day, the farm ministry and Kyoto prefectural government filed a criminal complaint with police against the company and its President Hideaki Asada for failing to report a bird flue outbreak to the authorities in February. (Kyodo)

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(1)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asada Nosan Co. based in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, speak with reporters near his company on March 31 before a criminal complaint was filed against him and his company that apparently failed to report a bird flu outbreak promptly to the authorities in February. (Kyodo)

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Poultry farm chief sent to prosecutors over bird flu

KYOTO, Japan - Hideaki Asada, 41, president of Asada Nosan Co., is escorted by police officers as he leaves a police station in the town of Sonobe, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 2. Police handed Asada over to prosecutors for failing to report an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, to authorities in February. (Kyodo)