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[Breaking News]Panel reports on Fuji TV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, April 1 Kyodo - Lawyer Akira Takeuchi, head of the third-party panel probing Fuji Television Network Inc. and its handling of a scandal involving famous former TV host Masahiro Nakai, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 31, 2025, to announce the panel's investigation. (Kyodo)

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Panel reports on Fuji TV scandal

Lawyer Akira Takeuchi (2nd from R, front row), head of the third-party panel probing Fuji Television Network Inc. and its handling of a scandal involving famous former TV host Masahiro Nakai, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 31, 2025, to announce the panel's investigation.

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Panel reports on Fuji TV scandal

Lawyer Akira Takeuchi, head of the third-party panel probing Fuji Television Network Inc. and its handling of a scandal involving famous former TV host Masahiro Nakai, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 31, 2025, to announce the panel's investigation.

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WHO recommends full publication of avian flu studies

GENEVA, Switzerland - Yoshihiro Kawaoka (L), a professor of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo, and Masato Tashiro from Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases, hold a press conference in Geneva on Feb. 17, 2012. The World Health Organization recommended the same day that two reports on avian flu studies by Japanese and European researchers, including one by the University of Tokyo institute, be published in full. A U.S. government panel had called on two leading scientific journals not to print them completely over fears that detailed information about the lethal virus could be used in bioterrorism. Kawaoka called the WHO recommendation a ''reasonable conclusion.''

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Panel reports on Olympus' loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Tatsuo Kainaka, chairman of a third-party panel set up by Olympus Corp. to probe the company's coverup of investment losses, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, to announce the findings of the panel's investigation.

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Panel reports on Olympus' loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Tatsuo Kainaka (C), chairman of a third-party panel set up by Olympus Corp. to probe the company's coverup of investment losses, and other panel members hold a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, to announce their findings.

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Ex-Olympus President Woodford

LONDON, Britain - Former Olympus Corp. President Michael Woodford speaks during a press conference in London on Nov. 21, 2011. Woodford criticized a third-party panel set up by the company to probe its coverup of past securities investment losses, after the panel denied reports of organized crime's involvement in the scandal.

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Hiraizumi in northeast Japan to be World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - Masayoshi Sugawara, mayor of Hiraizumi, a town in Iwate Prefecture, smiles as he meets the press May 7, 2011, in the town following reports that an advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended registering the Hiraizumi area in northeastern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands off Tokyo as World Heritage sites. Behind him is a poster of the Golden Hall at Chusonji, a Buddhist temple, in Hiraizumi.

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Prosecutors question Ozawa over political fund reports

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (C), secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 15, 2010, after being questioned by prosecutors over his fund management body's alleged false reporting of political funds. The third round of questioning over the fund reports was conducted after an independent judicial panel decided last month that Ozawa merits indictment over the allegation.

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Prosecutors question Ozawa over political fund reports

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the media gather in front of a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 15, 2010, as prosecutors inside questioned Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. Tokyo prosecutors and Ozawa met for a third round of questioning after an independent judicial panel decided last month that he merits indictment over his fund management body's alleged false reporting of political funds.

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Maehara voices concern over impact of Ozawa scandal on election

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese transport minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a press conference in Washington on April 29, 2010. Maehara said keeping Ichiro Ozawa as the secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, despite a decision by a citizens panel that he should be indicted over alleged false funds reports by his fund management body, could ''affect'' the upcoming upper house election.

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Hatoyama willing to keep Ozawa as DPJ secretary general

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 28, 2010. Hatoyama suggested that he is willing to keep Ichiro Ozawa as secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, despite the decision the previous day by a citizens' panel that he merits indictment over his fund management body's alleged false funds reports.

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Bill requiring receipts for political expenses clears Diet panel

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives special ethics panel passed legislation June 13 that would require lawmakers' political fund management groups to attach receipts to their fund reports for every regular item worth 50,000 yen or more. Members of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (R) gather around the panel chairman opposing the voting on the bill.

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Kawaguchi reports on hostage crisis at Diet panel

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi reports on the kidnappings of Japanese civilians in Iraq before a parliamentary panel on April 15.

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Mystery illness has yet to strike Japan: Ministry panel

TOKYO, Japan - A health ministry official (standing) tells a panel meeting March 26 that all seven patients in Japan suspected of being infected with a deadly mystery illness are not suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ministry officials said. The panel determined that the seven are not infected with SARS, given that their symptoms are relatively mild and there have been no reports of secondary infection.

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Nikkei trims early gains on bomb threat reports

TOKYO, Japan - A panel at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Yurakucho displays a chart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange closing prices Sept. 18. The key Nikkei Stock Average closed the day higher, but lost about 100 points of early gains in the last three minutes of trading on reports that bomb threats were made against office building and hotels in the capital.

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Bill requiring receipts for political expenses clears Diet panel

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives special ethics panel passed legislation June 13 that would require lawmakers' political fund management groups to attach receipts to their fund reports for every regular item worth 50,000 yen or more. Members of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (R) gather around the panel chairman opposing the voting on the bill. (Kyodo)

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Lawmaker Obuchi apologizes over false funds reports

Former trade minister Yuko Obuchi attends a press conference on Oct. 20, 2015, in the central Japan city of Maebashi, close to her constituency, to apologize over false reports filed by her political funds management body and three other groups. An investigative panel set up by her concluded earlier that Obuchi was not directly involved in the falsification. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lawmaker Obuchi apologizes over false funds reports

Former trade minister Yuko Obuchi attends a press conference on Oct. 20, 2015, in the central Japan city of Maebashi, close to her constituency, to apologize over false reports filed by her political funds management body and three other groups. An investigative panel set up by her concluded earlier that Obuchi was not directly involved in the falsification. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lawmaker Obuchi apologizes over false funds reports

Former trade minister Yuko Obuchi attends a press conference on Oct. 20, 2015, in the central Japan city of Maebashi, close to her constituency, to apologize over false reports filed by her political funds management body and three other groups. An investigative panel set up by her concluded earlier that Obuchi was not directly involved in the falsification. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-minister "not responsible" for false funds reports: panel

Lawyer and former prosecutor Zenzo Sasaki attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2015, announcing the third party investigation panel, led by him, concluded former trade minister Yuko Obuchi "bears no legal responsibility" for her aides' falsification of political funds reports. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiraizumi in northeast Japan to be World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - Masayoshi Sugawara, mayor of Hiraizumi, a town in Iwate Prefecture, smiles as he meets the press May 7, 2011, in the town following reports that an advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended registering the Hiraizumi area in northeastern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands off Tokyo as World Heritage sites. Behind him is a poster of the Golden Hall at Chusonji, a Buddhist temple, in Hiraizumi. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors question Ozawa over political fund reports

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (C), secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 15, 2010, after being questioned by prosecutors over his fund management body's alleged false reporting of political funds. The third round of questioning over the fund reports was conducted after an independent judicial panel decided last month that Ozawa merits indictment over the allegation. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors question Ozawa over political fund reports

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the media gather in front of a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 15, 2010, as prosecutors inside questioned Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. Tokyo prosecutors and Ozawa met for a third round of questioning after an independent judicial panel decided last month that he merits indictment over his fund management body's alleged false reporting of political funds. (Kyodo)

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Maehara voices concern over impact of Ozawa scandal on election

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese transport minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a press conference in Washington on April 29, 2010. Maehara said keeping Ichiro Ozawa as the secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, despite a decision by a citizens panel that he should be indicted over alleged false funds reports by his fund management body, could ''affect'' the upcoming upper house election. (Kyodo)

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Hatoyama willing to keep Ozawa as DPJ secretary general

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 28, 2010. Hatoyama suggested that he is willing to keep Ichiro Ozawa as secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, despite the decision the previous day by a citizens' panel that he merits indictment over his fund management body's alleged false funds reports. (Kyodo)

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WHO recommends full publication of avian flu studies

GENEVA, Switzerland - Yoshihiro Kawaoka (L), a professor of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo, and Masato Tashiro from Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases, hold a press conference in Geneva on Feb. 17, 2012. The World Health Organization recommended the same day that two reports on avian flu studies by Japanese and European researchers, including one by the University of Tokyo institute, be published in full. A U.S. government panel had called on two leading scientific journals not to print them completely over fears that detailed information about the lethal virus could be used in bioterrorism. Kawaoka called the WHO recommendation a ''reasonable conclusion.'' (Kyodo)

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Panel reports on Olympus' loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Tatsuo Kainaka, chairman of a third-party panel set up by Olympus Corp. to probe the company's coverup of investment losses, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, to announce the findings of the panel's investigation. (Kyodo)

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Panel reports on Olympus' loss coverup

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Tatsuo Kainaka (C), chairman of a third-party panel set up by Olympus Corp. to probe the company's coverup of investment losses, and other panel members hold a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, to announce their findings. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Olympus President Woodford

LONDON, Britain - Former Olympus Corp. President Michael Woodford speaks during a press conference in London on Nov. 21, 2011. Woodford criticized a third-party panel set up by the company to probe its coverup of past securities investment losses, after the panel denied reports of organized crime's involvement in the scandal. (Kyodo)

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Mystery illness has yet to strike Japan: Ministry panel

TOKYO, Japan - A health ministry official (standing) tells a panel meeting March 26 that all seven patients in Japan suspected of being infected with a deadly mystery illness are not suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ministry officials said. The panel determined that the seven are not infected with SARS, given that their symptoms are relatively mild and there have been no reports of secondary infection. (Kyodo)

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Nikkei trims early gains on bomb threat reports

TOKYO, Japan - A panel at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Yurakucho displays a chart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange closing prices Sept. 18. The key Nikkei Stock Average closed the day higher, but lost about 100 points of early gains in the last three minutes of trading on reports that bomb threats were made against office building and hotels in the capital.