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Japan to ratify child custody pact

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Councillors approves a bill necessary for Japan to join an international treaty to help settle cross-border child custody disputes, during a plenary session in Tokyo on May 22, 2013. Japan plans to ratify the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by the end of the fiscal year through March 2014.

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Gov't failed to collect 43 bil. yen in taxes: audit board

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) receives the fiscal 2003 audit of state finances from Board of Audit Commissioner Nobuaki Morishita at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 9. The government wasted or failed to collect about 43 billion yen in taxes in the year, the second-largest sum on record following 51 billion yen in fiscal 1980.

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Gov't failed to collect 43 bil. yen in taxes: audit board

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) receives the fiscal 2003 audit of state finances from Board of Audit Commissioner Nobuaki Morishita at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 9. The government wasted or failed to collect about 43 billion yen in taxes in the year, the second-largest sum on record following 51 billion yen in fiscal 1980. (Kyodo)