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Recipe book for children with food allergies

OSAKA, Japan - A recipe book written by researchers of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. features menus safe for children with food allergies, including a pudding that can be made without eggs and milk. The book went on sale Jan. 9, 2014.

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Kobayashi to become president of Nippon Meat Packers

OSAKA, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. said March 5 its director, Hiroshi Kobayashi (R), 60, will become president of Japan's top meat processor on April 1. The current president, Yoshikiyo Fujii (L), 66, will become chairman with the right to represent the company, it said.

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Asset-based lending extends to prized meat cows

MORIOKA, Japan - Kita-Nippon Bank, a regional lender based in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, has started taking prized Maezawa meat cows as collateral for the so-called asset-based lending to cattle farmers in the prefecture. A loan-taker is required to send a monthly report to the bank on the condition of the cows, which are tagged in both ears for the bank to track of their health and market value. According to Kita-Nippon Bank, similar asset-based lending is extended to cattle farmers in Shiga Prefecture and Hokkaido.

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Police search offices in Nippon Meat labeling probe

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers enter the local sales office of Nippon Food Inc., a subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., in the town of Ishii, Tokushima Prefecture, on Sept. 30 to search for evidence in connection with a scandal involving false labeling of beef.

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Nippon Meat cuts earnings forecast due to beef-labeling scam

OSAKA, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. President Yoshikiyo Fujii (L) tells a news conference on Sept. 20 that the company, rocked by a beef-labeling scandal, has cut its group earnings forecast for the fiscal first half to Sept. 30 and the full year to next March 31 as the scandal dealt a blow to sales and profits.

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Gov't files fraud complaints against ex-Nippon Food execs

KOBE, Japan - A farm ministry official speak to members of the media in Kobe on Sept. 12 after filing criminal complaints against the former chiefs of a Nippon Meat Packers Inc. subsidiary on suspicion of defrauding the state of nearly 10 million yen in subsidies by having employees disguise imported beef as domestic.

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New Nippon Meat President Fujii meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshikiyo Fujii, new president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2, the same day the farm ministry decided to allow his company and its subsidiary Nippon Food Inc. to resume beef-related operations after a fraud scandal involving the government's beef buyback program.

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Farm ministry probes all uninspected Nippon Food beef

TOKYO, Japan - Farm ministry officials enter Nippon Food Inc.'s warehouse office in Tokyo on Aug. 27 to investigate all uninspected beef that the subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. submitted as part of a state buyback scheme. The subsidiary allegedly labeled imported beef as domestic beef to obtain subsidies under the scheme.

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Takebe unsatisfied with remedial steps by Nippon Meat

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe expresses dissatisfaction Aug. 21 in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, with the remedial steps taken by Nippon Meat Packers Inc. the previous day over its subsidiary's abuse of a state-run beef-buyback program.

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Farm ministry begins investigation at Nippon Meat offices

OSAKA, Japan - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials walk into the office of the Nippon Meat Packers Inc. head office in Osaka on Aug. 21 for an on-site investigation for the first time since the company's beef-labeling scam came to light. The investigation is intended to ensure that a series of remedial measures announced Tuesday by the company will be duly implemented, ministry officials said.

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Nippon Meat president to resign over beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. President Hiroji Osoko weeps while announcing his resignation at a Tokyo news conference Aug. 20. He said he will step down over a scandal in which the firm's subsidiary falsely labeled beef to obtain state subsidies for mad cow disease. Osoko will be demoted to senior managing director.

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Fujii to become new Nippon Meat president

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshikiyo Fujii (file photo), managing director of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., will succeed President Hiroji Osoko, who will resign over a scandal in which its subsidiary falsely labeled beef to obtain state subsidies for mad cow disease.

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Nippon Meat chairman to resign over beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshinori Okoso (file photo), chairman and founder of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., will resign as part of the company's disciplinary actions taken in response to a subsidiary's abuse of a state-run beef-buyback program introduced last year following the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan.

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Gov't asks Nippon Meat group to limit business

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroji Okoso, president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., is surrounded by reporters at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tokyo on Aug. 14 after being asked by the ministry to limit the beef-related business activities of Nippon Food Inc., Nippon Meat's subsidiary.

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Ham processors assn. searched over beef-labeling scam

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries enter the building of the Japan Ham & Sausage Processors Cooperative Association in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 13 to search the trade organization in connection with beef-labeling fraud committed by a subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc.

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Nippon Meat says 2 execs involved in beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroji Okoso (C), president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., says in Tokyo on Aug. 9 that two of its top executives were either directly involved in or aware of the subsidiary Nippon Food Inc.'s abuse of the state-run beef-buyback program. Okoso apologized for the fraud with Motoaki Shoji (L), senior managing director of Nippon Meat Packers, who also serves as director of Nippon Food Inc., and Heihachiro Azuma (R), vice president of Nippon Meat and president of the subsidiary.

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More retailers remove Nippon Meat products due to beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - A shop assistant at a Tokyo convenient store removes the products of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. from the shelves Aug. 8. More supermarkets and department stores chose not to sell Nippon Meat Packers products following revelation that the firm's subsidiary was involved in a beef scam.

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Nippon Meat subsidiary official says ordered beef scam

HIMEJI, Japan - Shunji Tanaka, chief of the marketing department of Nippon Food Inc.'s Himeji branch in Hyogo Prefecture, speaks to reporters Aug. 8. He admitted he ordered imported beef to be passed off as domestic to abuse a state-run beef buy-back scheme.

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(4)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. President Hiroji Okoso answers reporters after meeting farm minister Tsutomu Takebe following reports that a unit of the firm disguised imported beef as domestic in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan.

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(3)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe speaks at a news conference Aug. 7 after meeting Nippon Meat Packers Inc. executives over reports that a unit of the firm disguised imported beef as domestic in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan.

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(2)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

SENDAI, Japan - A notice put up at a supermarket in Sendai on Aug. 7 tells customers that products of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. have been removed from the shelves following reports a unit of the firm disguised imported beef as domestic in applying for subsidies in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan.

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(1)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

OSAKA, Japan - A spokesman for Nippon Meat Packers Inc. answers reporters Aug. 6 on reports that a subsidiary of the firm defrauded the state of subsidies by disguising imported beef as domestic in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan.

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Police search Nippon Shokuhin in false labeling probe

FUKUOKA, Japan - Police enter the head office of failed meat processor Nippon Shokuhin Co. in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward on July 18. They were searching for evidence on allegations the firm received some 136 million yen in subsidy payments under a state beef buyback program by labeling imported meat as domestic.

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Nippon Shokuhin goes under on beef labeling scandal

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo shows the head office in Fukuoka of Meat processor Nippon Shokuhin Co., which filed for court protection from creditors July 3 in the wake of a beef labeling scandal.

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Kobayashi to become president of Nippon Meat Packers

OSAKA, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. said March 5 its director, Hiroshi Kobayashi (R), 60, will become president of Japan's top meat processor on April 1. The current president, Yoshikiyo Fujii (L), 66, will become chairman with the right to represent the company, it said. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Meat says 2 execs involved in beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroji Okoso (C), president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., says in Tokyo on Aug. 9 that two of its top executives were either directly involved in or aware of the subsidiary Nippon Food Inc.'s abuse of the state-run beef-buyback program. Okoso apologized for the fraud with Motoaki Shoji (L), senior managing director of Nippon Meat Packers, who also serves as director of Nippon Food Inc., and Heihachiro Azuma (R), vice president of Nippon Meat and president of the subsidiary. (Kyodo)

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Farm ministry begins investigation at Nippon Meat offices

OSAKA, Japan - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials walk into the office of the Nippon Meat Packers Inc. head office in Osaka on Aug. 21 for an on-site investigation for the first time since the company's beef-labeling scam came to light. The investigation is intended to ensure that a series of remedial measures announced Tuesday by the company will be duly implemented, ministry officials said. (Kyodo)

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Police search offices in Nippon Meat labeling probe

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers enter the local sales office of Nippon Food Inc., a subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., in the town of Ishii, Tokushima Prefecture, on Sept. 30 to search for evidence in connection with a scandal involving false labeling of beef. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Meat cuts earnings forecast due to beef-labeling scam

OSAKA, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. President Yoshikiyo Fujii (L) tells a news conference on Sept. 20 that the company, rocked by a beef-labeling scandal, has cut its group earnings forecast for the fiscal first half to Sept. 30 and the full year to next March 31 as the scandal dealt a blow to sales and profits. (Kyodo)

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Insurance giant Nissay's staff restaurant kind to working women

A staff restaurant of Nippon Life Insurance Co. (Nissay) housed in its new office building in Osaka, western Japan, is shown to the press on March 11, 2015. The restaurant is billed as a facility kind to women for offering vegetables and meat cut in smaller-than-usual sizes, among other things. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asset-based lending extends to prized meat cows

MORIOKA, Japan - Kita-Nippon Bank, a regional lender based in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, has started taking prized Maezawa meat cows as collateral for the so-called asset-based lending to cattle farmers in the prefecture. A loan-taker is required to send a monthly report to the bank on the condition of the cows, which are tagged in both ears for the bank to track of their health and market value. According to Kita-Nippon Bank, similar asset-based lending is extended to cattle farmers in Shiga Prefecture and Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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(2)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

SENDAI, Japan - A notice put up at a supermarket in Sendai on Aug. 7 tells customers that products of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. have been removed from the shelves following reports a unit of the firm disguised imported beef as domestic in applying for subsidies in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan. (Kyodo)

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(1)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

OSAKA, Japan - A spokesman for Nippon Meat Packers Inc. answers reporters Aug. 6 on reports that a subsidiary of the firm defrauded the state of subsidies by disguising imported beef as domestic in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Shokuhin chief gets suspended sentence for fraud

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shigehito Atoyama, the former head of meat processor Nippon Shokuhin Co., leaves the Fukuoka District Court on April 17 after being sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for three years, for fraud related to a state beef-buyback program. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Shokuhin ex-chief admits false labeling

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shigehito Atoyama, former president of Nippon Shokuhin Co., enters the Fukuoka District Court in Fukuoka on Jan. 16 for the first hearing of his trial over the false labeling of beef. Atoyama and two other former executives of the meat processor pleaded guilty to swindling a government-commissioned industry body by falsely labeling about 122 tons of imported beef as domestic. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Shokuhin head nabbed over alleged false labeling

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shigehito Atoyama (file photo), president of Fukuoka-based meat processor Nippon Shokuhin Co., was arrested Nov. 19 in connection with a fraud case involving the false labeling of beef last year. (Kyodo)

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Gov't files fraud complaints against ex-Nippon Food execs

KOBE, Japan - A farm ministry official speak to members of the media in Kobe on Sept. 12 after filing criminal complaints against the former chiefs of a Nippon Meat Packers Inc. subsidiary on suspicion of defrauding the state of nearly 10 million yen in subsidies by having employees disguise imported beef as domestic. (Kyodo)

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New Nippon Meat President Fujii meets press

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshikiyo Fujii, new president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2, the same day the farm ministry decided to allow his company and its subsidiary Nippon Food Inc. to resume beef-related operations after a fraud scandal involving the government's beef buyback program. (Kyodo)

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Farm ministry probes all uninspected Nippon Food beef

TOKYO, Japan - Farm ministry officials enter Nippon Food Inc.'s warehouse office in Tokyo on Aug. 27 to investigate all uninspected beef that the subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. submitted as part of a state buyback scheme. The subsidiary allegedly labeled imported beef as domestic beef to obtain subsidies under the scheme. (Kyodo)

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Takebe unsatisfied with remedial steps by Nippon Meat

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe expresses dissatisfaction Aug. 21 in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, with the remedial steps taken by Nippon Meat Packers Inc. the previous day over its subsidiary's abuse of a state-run beef-buyback program. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Meat president to resign over beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. President Hiroji Osoko weeps while announcing his resignation at a Tokyo news conference Aug. 20. He said he will step down over a scandal in which the firm's subsidiary falsely labeled beef to obtain state subsidies for mad cow disease. Osoko will be demoted to senior managing director. (Kyodo)

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Fujii to become new Nippon Meat president

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshikiyo Fujii (file photo), managing director of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., will succeed President Hiroji Osoko, who will resign over a scandal in which its subsidiary falsely labeled beef to obtain state subsidies for mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Meat chairman to resign over beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshinori Okoso (file photo), chairman and founder of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., will resign as part of the company's disciplinary actions taken in response to a subsidiary's abuse of a state-run beef-buyback program introduced last year following the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Gov't asks Nippon Meat group to limit business

TOKYO - Hiroji Okoso, president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., is surrounded by reporters at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tokyo on Aug. 14 after being asked by the ministry to limit the beef-related business activities of Nippon Food Inc., Nippon Meat's subsidiary. (Kyodo)

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Ham processors assn. searched over beef-labeling scam

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries enter the building of the Japan Ham & Sausage Processors Cooperative Association in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 13 to search the trade organization in connection with beef-labeling fraud committed by a subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Meat subsidiary official says ordered beef scam

HIMEJI, Japan - Shunji Tanaka, chief of the marketing department of Nippon Food Inc.'s Himeji branch in Hyogo Prefecture, speaks to reporters Aug. 8. He admitted he ordered imported beef to be passed off as domestic to abuse a state-run beef buy-back scheme. (Kyodo)

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More retailers remove Nippon Meat products due to beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - A shop assistant at a Tokyo convenient store removes the products of Nippon Meat Packers Inc. from the shelves Aug. 8. More supermarkets and department stores chose not to sell Nippon Meat Packers products following revelation that the firm's subsidiary was involved in a beef scam. (Kyodo)

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(4)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Meat Packers Inc. President Hiroji Okoso answers reporters after meeting farm minister Tsutomu Takebe following reports that a unit of the firm disguised imported beef as domestic in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan. (Kyodo)

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(3)Gov't set to file fraud charges against Nippon Meat

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe speaks at a news conference Aug. 7 after meeting Nippon Meat Packers Inc. executives over reports that a unit of the firm disguised imported beef as domestic in a state-run beef-buyback scheme introduced after mad cow disease emerged in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Police search Nippon Shokuhin in false labeling probe

FUKUOKA, Japan - Police enter the head office of failed meat processor Nippon Shokuhin Co. in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward on July 18. They were searching for evidence on allegations the firm received some 136 million yen in subsidy payments under a state beef buyback program by labeling imported meat as domestic.