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US: Airport Fire Expands In Southern California, Destroys Homes 3

Airport Fire burning in Orange and Riverside Counties, Southern California has grown to more than 23,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, September 11. The fire injured at least seven people and destroyed homes.

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Ichiro agrees to $44 mil., 4-year deal with Mariners

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff hitter Ichiro Suzuki signed to stay with the club Dec. 18 after agreeing to a $44 million (about 4.75 billion yen), four-year contract, sources familiar with the deal said. The deal made the Mariners outfielder the first major leaguer from Japan to receive an annual average of more than $10 million (about 1.08 billion yen).

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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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HIGHTECH SEIKO's newly installed vacuum furnace.

Hitec Seiko (Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba City) has introduced a new type of vacuum heat treatment furnace. The new furnace reduces the processing time to about 10 hours, 30% less than the previous model. By increasing the utilization rate and providing more space in the furnace, the company aims to stabilize the quality. We will increase the sales of the heat treatment business to 270 million yen in the fiscal year ending March 2020, up 12.5% from the previous fiscal year. The company has newly introduced the PQ-65 pressure-cooled horizontal vacuum furnace manufactured by IHI Mechanical Systems (Koto-ku, Tokyo), with a view to entering the aerospace field in the future. The maximum processing capacity of the vacuum furnace is 400 kilograms, which is the same as the conventional furnace, but the processing time can be reduced from 15 hours with the conventional furnace. HIGHTECH SEIKO, Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba City, July 19, 2019. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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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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Ichiro agrees to $44 mil., 4-year deal with Mariners

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff hitter Ichiro Suzuki signed to stay with the club Dec. 18 after agreeing to a $44 million (about 4.75 billion yen), four-year contract, sources familiar with the deal said. The deal made the Mariners outfielder the first major leaguer from Japan to receive an annual average of more than $10 million (about 1.08 billion yen). (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)