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Welfare ministry official acquitted in postal abuse case

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Atsuko Muraki (L), former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, holds a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 10, 2010, with her lawyer Junichiro Hironaka after the Osaka District Court acquitted her of instructing a subordinate to fabricate and issue an official document for an organization in an attempt to abuse a mail discount system for people with disabilities.(Kyodo)

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

Queen Mary of Denmark signs an official document alongside King Frederik X of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

Queen Mary of Denmark signs an official document alongside King Frederik X of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

Queen Mary of Denmark signs an official document alongside King Frederik X of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

King Frederik X of Denmark signs an official document alongside Queen Mary of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

Queen Mary of Denmark signs an official document alongside King Frederik X of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

Queen Mary of Denmark signs an official document alongside King Frederik X of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Danish Royal Couple Welcomed By The Mayor Of Paris - Paris

King Frederik X of Denmark signs an official document alongside Queen Mary of Denmark and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a ceremony on board a boat on the Seine river, in Paris on April 2, 2025. The Danish royal couple is on a state visit to France from March 31 to April 2, 2025. Photo by David Niviere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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BELARUS-MINSK-UZBEKISTAN FM-VISIT

(240412) -- MINSK, April 12, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik (R) shakes hands with Uzbekistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov after signing a document in Minsk, Belarus, April 11, 2024. Uzbekistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov is paying an official visit to Belarus, BelTA news agency reported Thursday. This is for the first time in the history of relations between the two countries that the Uzbek foreign minister pays an official visit to Belarus, according to the report. During the visit, the two sides signed a program of ministerial consultations for 2024-2025. (Photo by Henadz Zhikov/Xinhua)

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BELARUS-MINSK-UZBEKISTAN FM-VISIT

(240412) -- MINSK, April 12, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik (2nd R) and Uzbekistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov (2nd L) sign a document in Minsk, Belarus, April 11, 2024. Uzbekistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov is paying an official visit to Belarus, BelTA news agency reported Thursday. This is for the first time in the history of relations between the two countries that the Uzbek foreign minister pays an official visit to Belarus, according to the report. During the visit, the two sides signed a program of ministerial consultations for 2024-2025. (Photo by Henadz Zhikov/Xinhua)

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Italy's cabinet lowers 2024 growth forecast

STORY: Italy's cabinet lowers 2024 growth forecast SHOOTING TIME: April 10, 2024 DATELINE: April 11, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:45 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views in Rome STORYLINE: Italy's cabinet on Tuesday approved the Economic and Financial Document (DEF), lowering the economic forecast for 2024 to 1 percent from the 1.2 percent forecast last September. The DEF is the official paper that set Italy's economic and financial goals for the next three years. Growth estimates for 2025 were also lowered to 1.2 percent from 1.3 percent, and that for 2026 to 1.1 percent from 1.2 percent. The government's new growth forecast remained higher than predictions made earlier this year by the European Union (EU), which expected Italy to grow by 0.7 percent in 2024, and by 1.2 percent in 2025. The government confirmed a budget deficit target of 4.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2024, 3.7 percent for 2025 and 3 percent for 2026. The DEF set the public debt t

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UN "doing everything possible" for extension of Black Sea grain deal: official

STORY: UN "doing everything possible" for extension of Black Sea grain deal: official DATELINE: March 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:01 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of UN Security Council Chamber 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MARTIN GRIFFITHS, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs 3. various of Griffiths on screens 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARTIN GRIFFITHS, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs 5. various of delegates 6. various of UN Security Council Chamber STORYLINE: Martin Griffiths, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said Friday the world body is doing "everything possible" to ensure the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. On July 22, 2022, Russia and Ukraine separately signed a document in Istanbul with Türkiye and the United Nations on grain and fertilizer exports from Ukraine and Russia to ensure supplies to global markets amid the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. The deal, initially i

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J-Power seeks safety checks of uncompleted nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - Junji Nagashima (R), executive managing director of Electric Power Development Co., known as J-Power, presents a document to a Nuclear Regulation Authority official in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, to apply for NRA safety checks of its Oma nuclear power plant now under construction in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Aomori.

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Chiang Kai-shek eyed preemptive strike at China's nuke facilities in 1964

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows U.S. official documents declassified on Oct. 16, 2014. The document shows that Chiang Kai-shek, then the president of the Republic of China, planned a preemptive strike on China's nuclear facilities in 1964, fearing an attack from Beijing after the communist country successfully carried out its first nuclear test earlier in the year.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara asked to make 2020 bid official

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (L) hands Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara at the metropolitan government office in Tokyo on June 23, 2011 -- International Olympic Day -- an official document asking the city to bid for the 2020 Summer Games.

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Ishigaki mayor seeks to visit disputed island

TOKYO, Japan - Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama (L) hands to Masanori Miyahara, a senior official of Japan's Fisheries Agency, a document requesting the central government's approval of the mayor to visit one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the South China Sea, at the agency in Tokyo on June 10, 2011. Nakayama made the request to visit Uotsuri Island to hold a memorial service for those who died off the island during World War II.

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Welfare official acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, smiles during a press conference in Osaka, after the Osaka District Court acquitted her of allegedly instructing a subordinate to fabricate and issue an official document for an organization to enable it to use a mail discount system for the disabled.

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Welfare official acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, enters the Osaka District Court on Sept. 10, 2010. The court acquitted her of fabricating and issuing an official document for an organization to enable it to use a mail discount system for the disabled.

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Welfare official acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, enters the Osaka District Court on Sept. 10, 2010. The court acquitted her of fabricating and issuing an official document for an organization to enable it to use a mail discount system for the disabled.

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Winners of 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

An official of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties meets the press in Kyiv on Oct. 7, 2022, after the group was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize along with jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski and Russia's Memorial human rights group for their "outstanding effort to document war crimes, human rights abuses and the abuse of power."

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Winners of 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

An official of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties meets the press in Kyiv on Oct. 7, 2022, after the group was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize along with jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski and Russia's Memorial human rights group for their "outstanding effort to document war crimes, human rights abuses and the abuse of power."

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Winners of 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

A senior official (R) of the Center for Civil Liberties hears from school officials in Irpin, near Kyiv, in June 2022 that their school has been destroyed in a Russian missile attack. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Oct. 7, 2022, to jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski and two human rights groups -- Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties and Russia's Memorial -- for their "outstanding effort to document war crimes, human rights abuses and the abuse of power."

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Ukraine hands over 2nd part of EU membership questionnaire

STORY: Ukraine hands over 2nd part of EU membership questionnaire DATELINE: May 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: LVIV, Ukraine CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): SHOMODI YURII, Xinhua reporter in Lviv, Ukraine STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): SHOMODI YURII, Xinhua reporter in Lviv, Ukraine "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday submitted the second part of the questionnaire for Ukraine's candidate status of a European Union (EU) membership to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, according to Zelensky's press service. The document was handed over during an online meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and the EU, the press service said on Telegram. During the meeting, Zelensky thanked von der Leyen for the "clear signals of support" for Ukraine on its path towards the EU membership. On Feb. 28, Zelensky signed an official appeal to the EU asking for the accession of Ukraine via a new special procedure. The European Commission president gave a questionnaire to Zelens

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Photographer criticizes confiscation of passport

Freelance photographer Yuichi Sugimoto presents a document he received from a Foreign Ministry official, ordering him to return his passport due to his having made plans to travel to Syria, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015. During the press conference, he voiced concern that the government's move will infringe on the freedom of press. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kaketsuken's operations suspended over irregular blood products

Seiji Miyamoto (L), head of Japanese blood products and vaccine maker Kaketsuken, receives from health ministry official Hideaki Nakagaki a document ordering the company to suspend business for 110 days, the longest penalty ever handed down under Japan's pharmaceutical law, on Jan. 8, 2016. Kaketsuken was found to have been adding unauthorized ingredients to its products and falsifying records. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't to start building U.S. military replacement facility

An official of the Defense Ministry's Okinawa Defense Bureau (R) submits a document to an Okinawa prefectural official on Oct. 28, 2015, at the prefectural office in Naha, notifying the local authority of the commencement of construction of a U.S. military replacement facility in the coastal city of Nago. The bureau will start work as early as Oct. 29, despite local opposition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photographer criticizes confiscation of passport

Freelance photographer Yuichi Sugimoto presents a document he received from a Foreign Ministry official, ordering him to return his passport due to his having made plans to travel to Syria, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015. During the press conference, he voiced concern that the government's move will infringe on the freedom of press. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan defends confiscation of passport over Syria trip plan

Photo taken Feb. 8, 2015, shows a document handed to Yuichi Sugimoto, a 58-year-old Japanese freelance photographer, by a Foreign Ministry official ordering Sugimoto to return his passport. On Feb. 9, Japan's top government spokesman defended its decision to confiscate the passport of Sugimoto, who had planned to travel to Syria, part of which is under the control of Islamic State militants, saying the government has a responsibility to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens traveling abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Welfare official acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, smiles during a press conference in Osaka, after the Osaka District Court acquitted her of allegedly instructing a subordinate to fabricate and issue an official document for an organization to enable it to use a mail discount system for the disabled. (Kyodo)

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Welfare official acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, enters the Osaka District Court on Sept. 10, 2010. The court acquitted her of fabricating and issuing an official document for an organization to enable it to use a mail discount system for the disabled. (Kyodo)

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Welfare official acquitted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, enters the Osaka District Court on Sept. 10, 2010. The court acquitted her of fabricating and issuing an official document for an organization to enable it to use a mail discount system for the disabled. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara asked to make 2020 bid official

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (L) hands Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara at the metropolitan government office in Tokyo on June 23, 2011 -- International Olympic Day -- an official document asking the city to bid for the 2020 Summer Games. (Kyodo)

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Imprisonment sought for welfare ministry official over fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki enters the Osaka District Court on June 22, 2010. Prosecutors sought an 18-month prison term for Muraki, charged with issuing a fabricated ministry document to recognize an organization as a group working for the disabled, enabling it to take advantage of a postal discount system for the handicapped. (Kyodo)

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Ishigaki mayor seeks to visit disputed island

TOKYO, Japan - Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama (L) hands to Masanori Miyahara, a senior official of Japan's Fisheries Agency, a document requesting the central government's approval of the mayor to visit one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the South China Sea, at the agency in Tokyo on June 10, 2011. Nakayama made the request to visit Uotsuri Island to hold a memorial service for those who died off the island during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Official likely to be acquitted of fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, a former senior official of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, enters the Osaka District Court on May 26, 2010, to attend a hearing of her trial on a charge of issuing a fabricated ministry document. The court is expected to acquit Muraki, who is on leave over the case, as it decided the same day not to admit as evidence most of the depositions of her colleagues that linked her to an abuse of a mail discount system for the handicapped. (Kyodo)

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J-Power seeks safety checks of uncompleted nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - Junji Nagashima (R), executive managing director of Electric Power Development Co., known as J-Power, presents a document to a Nuclear Regulation Authority official in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, to apply for NRA safety checks of its Oma nuclear power plant now under construction in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Aomori. (Kyodo)

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Welfare ministry official pleads not guilty to postal fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2010, after the first hearing of her trial at the Osaka District Court. Muraki pleaded not guilty to the charge of issuing a fabricated ministry document that enabled a fictitious organization to abuse a mail discount system for the handicapped in 2004. (Kyodo)

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Welfare ministry official pleads not guilty to postal fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuko Muraki, former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, heads for the Osaka District Court in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2010, to attend the first hearing of her trial. Muraki pleaded not guilty to the charge of issuing a fabricated ministry document that enabled a fictitious organization to abuse a mail discount system for the handicapped in 2004. (Kyodo)

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Anti-nuclear protest in U.S.

Daniel Ellsberg, anti-nuclear activist and former U.S. Defense Department official known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret document on the U.S. government's Vietnam policy, speaks at a rally against nuclear weapons held in front of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California on Aug. 6, 2019, the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Document implies PM gave specific instruction in "favoritism" scandal

Education minister Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on June 20, 2017, about a new document found in connection with favoritism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The document, dating from October 2016, quotes Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda as telling an education ministry official that Abe wanted a veterinary school to be opened in a specially deregulated economic zone by April 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Document implies PM gave specific instruction in "favoritism" scandal

Education minister Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on June 20, 2017, about a new document found in connection with favoritism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The document, dating from October 2016, quotes Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda as telling an education ministry official that Abe wanted a veterinary school to be opened in a specially deregulated economic zone by April 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo