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Japan: M7.5 Quake Hits Off Aomori Prefecture, Tsunami Warning Issued 8

A powerful Magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of Aomori Prefecture around 11:15 p.m. on Monday, December 8, injuring dozens of people and leading to immediate tsunami warnings and evacuation orders for residents. A 70 cm tsunami was observed at Kuji Port in Iwate Prefecture around 1:00 a.m. on Tuesday, and all warnings were subsequently lifted.

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Lower house adopts resolution calling on Sakai to resign

TOKYO, Japan - A plenary session of the House of Representatives unanimously adopts a resolution on March 25 calling for the resignation of member Takanori Sakai, arrested earlier this month for allegedly concealing political donations.

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Lower house OKs arrest of LDP member Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives at a plenary session March 7 endorsed the arrest of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Takanori Sakai. With the permission, the Tokyo District Court is to issue an arrest warrant for Sakai, suspected of hiding political donations in violation of the Political Funds Control Law.

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Cabinet endorses arrest of lawmaker Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 4, 2003, shows Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takanori Sakai at a House of Representatives plenary session. The cabinet on March 6 backed a request by prosecutors to arrest Sakai for allegedly ordering his secretaries not to declare 120 million yen in donations.

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(3)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Takanori Sakai (R), a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda in the Diet on Mrch 4 after two of his aides were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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(1)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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Lawmaker Sakai admits staff got money from firm in fraud case

SAGA, Japan - Takanori Sakai, a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat and current House of Representatives member, holds a news conference in Saga, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 20. Sakai admitted that money was transferred to one of his former secretaries from an Osaka investment company accused of defrauding customers through financial schemes, a reversal of his previous statement in which he said he was unaware of funds transfer.

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Lawmaker Sakai admits staff got money from firm in fraud case

SAGA, Japan - Takanori Sakai, a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat and current House of Representatives member, holds a news conference in Saga, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 20. Sakai admitted that money was transferred to one of his former secretaries from an Osaka investment company accused of defrauding customers through financial schemes, a reversal of his previous statement in which he said he was unaware of funds transfer.

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Lower house adopts resolution calling on Sakai to resign

TOKYO, Japan - A plenary session of the House of Representatives unanimously adopts a resolution on March 25 calling for the resignation of member Takanori Sakai, arrested earlier this month for allegedly concealing political donations. (Kyodo)

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Lower house OKs arrest of LDP member Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Representatives at a plenary session March 7 endorsed the arrest of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Takanori Sakai. With the permission, the Tokyo District Court is to issue an arrest warrant for Sakai, suspected of hiding political donations in violation of the Political Funds Control Law. (Kyodo)

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Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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(2)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Aki Shionoya (photo), a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and another Sakai aide were arrested by prosecutors on March 4 on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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LDP lawmaker Sakai arrested over hiding political donations

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Takanori Sakai (file photo) was arrested by prosecutors on March 7 on suspicion of concealing political donations. Earlier in the day, the House of Representatives lifted his immunity to arrest. (Kyodo)

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Diet starts debate on request to arrest lawmaker Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the the House of Representatives Steering Committee hold a closed-door session in the Diet on March 6 to discuss whether to grant a prosecutorsf request to arrest Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Takanori Sakai for allegedly ordering his secretaries not to declare 120 million yen in donations. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet endorses arrest of lawmaker Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 4, 2003, shows Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Takanori Sakai at a House of Representatives plenary session. The cabinet on March 6 backed a request by prosecutors to arrest Sakai for allegedly ordering his secretaries not to declare 120 million yen in donations. (Kyodo)

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(3)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Takanori Sakai (R), a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda in the Diet on Mrch 4 after two of his aides were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)