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Importer arrested in illegal sale of Viagra

NAGOYA, Japan - Police arrested an importer Nov. 13, 2001 on suspicion of illegally selling Viagra (photographed) on the Internet in violation of the Pharmaceuticals Business Law. Police said Tetsuo Kosaka, 43, a resident of Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, admitted that he sold on the Internet 100-milligram pills of the anti-impotence drug.

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Chinese drink found to contain Viagra element

NAGOYA, Japan - The Aichi prefectural government has found a so-called health drink imported from China (photo) contains an active ingredient of the anti-impotence drug Viagra and directed the importer in Nagoya to recall the product, officials said Feb. 8. The importer, ASG in Nagoya's Meito Ward, imported 47,000 20-milliliter bottles of the drink from China between February last year and January and has sold 43,000 bottles, mostly in drugstores in Aichi and other prefectures.

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Japan permits manufacturing, import of Viagra

Leslie Robert Patterson, country manager of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Tokyo-based affiliate of Pfizer Inc. of the United States obtained permission from Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry to manufacture and import the anti-impotence drug Viagra.

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Importer arrested in illegal sale of Viagra

NAGOYA, Japan - Police arrested an importer Nov. 13, 2001 on suspicion of illegally selling Viagra (photographed) on the Internet in violation of the Pharmaceuticals Business Law. Police said Tetsuo Kosaka, 43, a resident of Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, admitted that he sold on the Internet 100-milligram pills of the anti-impotence drug.

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Police arrest importer of Chinese version of Viagra

NAGOYA, Japan - Naoyuki Yokota is taken to police from his home in Yokohama on Aug. 23 after being arrested for alleged unauthorized importation and sale of a Chinese-made drug containing an active ingredient of the anti-impotence drug Viagra. Yokota is suspected of importing and selling more than 200 bottles of the product for around 330,000 yen to a Tokyo company employee and others.

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EXPOSED

EXPOSED CHRISTINA LINDBERG Date: 1971

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THE PINK PANTHER

THE PINK PANTHER PETER SELLERS as Inspector Clouseau, CAPUCINE Date: 1963

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Chinese drink found to contain Viagra element

NAGOYA, Japan - The Aichi prefectural government has found a so-called health drink imported from China (photo) contains an active ingredient of the anti-impotence drug Viagra and directed the importer in Nagoya to recall the product, officials said Feb. 8. The importer, ASG in Nagoya's Meito Ward, imported 47,000 20-milliliter bottles of the drink from China between February last year and January and has sold 43,000 bottles, mostly in drugstores in Aichi and other prefectures.

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Japan permits manufacturing, import of Viagra

Leslie Robert Patterson, country manager of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Tokyo-based affiliate of Pfizer Inc. of the United States obtained permission from Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry to manufacture and import the anti-impotence drug Viagra. ==Kyodo