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Hokkaido Univ. Hospital ties up with Vladivostok medical center

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Kiyohiro Houkin (L), director of Hokkaido University Hospital in Japan's northernmost main island, and Oleg Pak, the head of the medical center of Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, agree on an alliance in the fields of medical science and health-care technologies in the Russian Far East city on Oct. 23, 2014.

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Foreign Ministry lacking in personnel, accounting checks

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Kiyohiro Araki answers questions from the media April 20 at the ministry about the findings of an in-house investigation into an embezzlement scandal involving a former diplomat. Araki said the ministry failed to prevent the scandal due to insufficient internal monitoring in areas such as personnel and accounting.

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Opposition lawmakers protest termination of voting

TOKYO, Japan - With voting cards in their hands, opposition lawmakers protest the decision by House of Councillors President Juro Saito to terminate a voting session on the dismissal of Kiyohiro Araki from the post of chairman of the upper house Judicial Affairs Committee around 2 a.m. on Aug. 12. Some of the opposition lawmakers had yet to cast their votes.

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Wiretap bills rammed through upper house panel

TOKYO, Japan - The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), its junior coalition partner the Liberal Party (LP) and the New Komeito party on Aug. 9 railroad a set of bills paving the way for using wiretaps to investigate organized crimes through the House of Councillors committee on judicial affairs. The photo shows opposition party members of the committee rushing toward committee Chairman Kiyohiro Araki (C) after the forced passage.

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Hokkaido Univ. Hospital ties up with Vladivostok medical center

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Kiyohiro Houkin (L), director of Hokkaido University Hospital in Japan's northernmost main island, and Oleg Pak, the head of the medical center of Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, agree on an alliance in the fields of medical science and health-care technologies in the Russian Far East city on Oct. 23, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Foreign Ministry lacking in personnel, accounting checks

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Kiyohiro Araki answers questions from the media April 20 at the ministry about the findings of an in-house investigation into an embezzlement scandal involving a former diplomat. Araki said the ministry failed to prevent the scandal due to insufficient internal monitoring in areas such as personnel and accounting.

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Wiretap bills rammed through upper house panel

TOKYO, Japan - The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), its junior coalition partner the Liberal Party (LP) and the New Komeito party on Aug. 9 railroad a set of bills paving the way for using wiretaps to investigate organized crimes through the House of Councillors committee on judicial affairs. The photo shows opposition party members of the committee rushing toward committee Chairman Kiyohiro Araki (C) after the forced passage.