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Osaka firm falsifies test reports for expressway material

YAO, Japan - Shingo Taniyama, president of ST Engineering Corp., speaks at a news conference in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, on March 30. Taniyama admitted that his company fabricated test reports in 2005 on a material used to reinforce concrete, and delivered the product to expressway bridge construction sites at 22 locations.

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Police officers check bullet holes on patrol boat

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Police officers check bullet holes in windows of the wheelhouse of the Amami, a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat, in Kagoshima on Dec. 24. The vessel arrived at Taniyama port in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, Dec. 24 after being hit on Dec. 22 in the East China Sea by shots from a suspected North Korean spy ship, which sank after exchanging fire with Japanese patrol boats.

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Coast guard staff examine damaged patrol vessel in Kagoshima

TANIYAMA PORT, Japan - Japan Coast Guard staff examine the control room of the Japanese patrol ship Amami on Dec. 24 at Taniyama port in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. Crew members of a suspected North Korean spy ship fired on the Amami with automatic weapons Dec. 22 during a chase at sea that ended when the ship sank in the East China Sea.

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