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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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(3)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken on March 10 shows the poultry farm of Asada Nosan Co. located in the town of Tanba, Kyoto Prefecture. A criminal complaint was filed against the company and its president for allegedly failing to report a bird flu outbreak promptly to the authorities in February.

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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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(1)Kyoto Pref. finishes cleaning bird flu farm

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada speaks at a press conference at the prefectural government office in Kyoto on March 22 about the completion of cleaning and disinfection operations at the Asada Nosan Co. Funai farm in the town of Tamba, where a major outbreak of bird flu was discovered in late February.

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(2)Bird flu in Kyoto

TAMBA, Japan - Workers fill a pit at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, with bags containing slaughtered chickens on March 9. Operations to place the chicken carcasses into the pit continue to prevent the spread of bird flu.

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(4)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Bags containing chickens slaughtered due to bird flu are piled up for burial in a pit near Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 8.

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

HIMEJI, Japan - Police officers examine a site near a poultry house of Asada Nosan Co.'s farm in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 8, where the company's chairman, Hajimu Asada, and his wife Chisako were found to have hanged themselves earlier in the day.

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

OSAKA, Japan - Hajimu Asada (file photo), chairman of Asada Nosan Co., was found to have hanged himself near a poultry house of the company's farm in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 8. His wife, Chisako, was also found to have hanged herself. The company's Funai chicken farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, is under fire for a delay in alerting authorities about an outbreak of bird flu.

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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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Workers ready pit for dead chickens in Kyoto

TAMBA, Japan - Workers place plastic sacks containing chickens that died from or were culled due to bird flu in a pit dug at Funai farm, run by Asada Nosan Co. in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 7.

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(2)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - An aerial photo shows a huge hole in a mountain forest north of Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 5. The hole was created to bury chickens, which were culled to prevent the spread of the bird flu.

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(1)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force, clad in protective suits, head for Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 5 to help in disinfection operations there. The farm had more than 200,000 birds. Many of them died and the rest are being culled.

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(2)Gov't eyes legal action against Kyoto firm over bird flu

HIMEJI, Japan - Hajime Asada, chairman of Asada Nosan Co., replies to questions by reporters about the bird flu outbreak at his farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. The Japanese government said it is considering pursuing a criminal case against Asada's firm for failing to promptly report the outbreak to the authorities.

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(3)Gov't eyes legal action against Kyoto firm over bird flu

TAMBA, Japan - Photo taken March 4 shows Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm (center left), where tens of thousands of chickens died due to bird flu.

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(4)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural government officials wearing protective suits cull chickens at the Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4.

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(1)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - A policeman wearing a mask stands guard near Takada poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, after the bird flu virus was detected in a preliminary test on dead chickens at the farm. The farm is located near Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm, where an outbreak of bird flu occurred last month.

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(3)Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - An alley at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town of Tamaba, Kyodo Prerecture, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu, looks whitish with sprayed disinfectant on March 3.

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(2)Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - Power shovels are in operation (bottom) to dig a pit for the disposal of some 200,000 chickens that died or were slaughtered due to bird flu at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm (top) in the town of Tamba, Kyodo Prefecture, on March 3. The roads at the farm look whitish with disinfectant.

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(3)Farm minister Kamei visits Asada Nosan's farm

TAMBA, Japan - Farm minister Yoshiyuki Kamei holds a press conference at the Tamba town office in Kyoto Prefecture on March 3 after inspecting a chicken yard at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu.

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Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - Workers operating power shovels dig a pit for the disposal of some 200,000 chickens that died or were slaughtered due to bird flu at nearby Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm.

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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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Chickens disposed of at Kyoto farm

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural workers on March 1 prepare to dispose of chickens that died of bird flu at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town of Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. Chickens on the farm started dying en masse Feb. 20.

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(4)Kyoto poultry farm disinfected after mass deaths

TAMBA, Japan - A Kyoto prefectural government staffer sprays disinfectant at the Asada Nosan Funai Nojo poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, Feb. 28 after the discovery of an outbreak of bird flu there that has killed thousands of chickens.

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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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Workers ready pit for dead chickens in Kyoto

TAMBA, Japan - Workers place plastic sacks containing chickens that died from or were culled due to bird flu in a pit dug at Funai farm, run by Asada Nosan Co. in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 7. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto farm starts culling chickens in bird flu outbreak

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural staff put chickens in a plastic bag at the Asada Nosan Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, Feb. 29. Tens of thousands of chickens have died there since last week following an outbreak of avian influenza. Photo provided by Kyoto prefecutural government. (Kyodo)

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Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - Workers operating power shovels dig a pit for the disposal of some 200,000 chickens that died or were slaughtered due to bird flu at nearby Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm. (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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(4)Kyoto poultry farm disinfected after mass deaths

TAMBA, Japan - A Kyoto prefectural government staffer sprays disinfectant at the Asada Nosan Funai Nojo poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, Feb. 28 after the discovery of an outbreak of bird flu there that has killed thousands of chickens. (Kyodo)

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(4)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Bags containing chickens slaughtered due to bird flu are piled up for burial in a pit near Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 8. (Kyodo)

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

HIMEJI, Japan - Police officers examine a site near a poultry house of Asada Nosan Co.'s farm in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 8, where the company's chairman, Hajimu Asada, and his wife Chisako were found to have hanged themselves earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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(3)Kyoto Pref. poultry farm disinfected after death of chickens

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural government officials inspect the Asada Nosan Funai Nojo poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on Feb. 28 after the discovery of an outbreak of bird flu, which killed thousands of chickens at the farm. Photo was provided by the Kyoto prefectural government. (Kyodo)

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(3)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken on March 10 shows the poultry farm of Asada Nosan Co. located in the town of Tanba, Kyoto Prefecture. A criminal complaint was filed against the company and its president for allegedly failing to report a bird flu outbreak promptly to the authorities in February. (Kyodo)

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(3)Gov't eyes legal action against Kyoto firm over bird flu

TAMBA, Japan - Photo taken March 4 shows Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm (center left), where tens of thousands of chickens died due to bird flu.(Kyodo)

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(3)Farm minister Kamei visits Asada Nosan's farm

TAMBA, Japan - Farm minister Yoshiyuki Kamei holds a press conference at the Tamba town office in Kyoto Prefecture on March 3 after inspecting a chicken yard at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu. (Kyodo)

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(3)Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - An alley at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town of Tamaba, Kyodo Prerecture, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu, looks whitish with sprayed disinfectant on March 3. (Kyodo)

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(3)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) personnel relay vinyl bags of slaughtered chickens at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, March 8 to bury them. Photo provided by GSDF. (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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(2)Kyoto Pref. poultry farm disinfected after death of chickens

TAMBA, Japan - Chickens killed by an outbreak of bird flu remain left in cages at the Asada Nosan Funai Nojo poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on Feb. 28. Photo was provided by the Kyoto prefectural government. (Kyodo)

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(2)Gov't eyes legal action against Kyoto firm over bird flu

HIMEJI, Japan - Hajime Asada, chairman of Asada Nosan Co., replies to questions by reporters about the bird flu outbreak at his farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. The Japanese government said it is considering pursuing a criminal case against Asada's firm for failing to promptly report the outbreak to the authorities. (Kyodo)

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(2)Farm minister Kamei visits Asada Nosan's farm

TAMBA, Japan - Farm minister Yoshiyuki Kamei (2nd from R, front) is briefed at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 3, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu. The photo was provided by the prefecture. (Kyodo)

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(2)Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - Power shovels are in operation (bottom) to dig a pit for the disposal of some 200,000 chickens that died or were slaughtered due to bird flu at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm (top) in the town of Tamba, Kyodo Prefecture, on March 3. The roads at the farm look whitish with disinfectant. (Kyodo)

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(2)Bird flu in Kyoto

TAMBA, Japan - Workers fill a pit at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, with bags containing slaughtered chickens on March 9. Operations to place the chicken carcasses into the pit continue to prevent the spread of bird flu. (Kyodo)

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

OSAKA, Japan - Hajimu Asada (file photo), chairman of Asada Nosan Co., was found to have hanged himself near a poultry house of the company's farm in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 8. His wife, Chisako, was also found to have hanged herself. The company's Funai chicken farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, is under fire for a delay in alerting authorities about an outbreak of bird flu. (Kyodo)

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(1)Kyoto Pref. poultry farm disinfected after death of chickens

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural government officials disinfect the Asada Nosan Funai Nojo poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on Feb. 28 after the discovery of an outbreak of bird flu, which killed thousands of chickens at the farm. Photo was provided by the Kyoto prefectural government. (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)