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1,402 bureaucrats received favors from cabbies, 151 punished

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25. Machimura said that a total of 1,402 ministry and agency bureaucrats have received favors in such forms as cash and cans of beer from taxi drivers when being taxied home late at night after work using taxpayer money, adding that the government has punished 151 of them.

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1,402 bureaucrats received favors from cabbies, 151 punished

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25. Machimura said that a total of 1,402 ministry and agency bureaucrats have received favors in such forms as cash and cans of beer from taxi drivers when being taxied home late at night after work using taxpayer money, adding that the government has punished 151 of them. (Kyodo)

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Japan father-son cabbies arrive in London

LONDON, Britain - Two Japanese taxi drivers make their way to London on Sept. 14 -- on their own taxicab, after driving 19,000 kilometers from Japan and passing through 12 countries. Takemasa Irie, 59 and his 29-year-old son, Takeshige, looked exhausted but jubilant as they arrived in London's Juxon Street, reputedly the birthplace of the world's first licensed motorized taxi.