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First childrens train carriage departs from Kharkiv

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - AUGUST 8, 2024 - Guardrails with shockproof padding are installed at upper bunk beds in the first childrens train carriage launched by the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) and Ukrainian state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia along the Kharkiv-Yasinia route as part of the N15/16 train, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine.

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NHK reprimands 2 employees for padding expense accounts

TOKYO, Japan - Hajime Miura, director of NHK's public relations bureau, tells a press conference on Feb. 10 the public broadcaster has reprimanded two employees for padding expense accounts while they were stationed as reporters at the network's Singapore bureau.

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Tanaka apologizes to colleagues

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka bows to her colleagues in apology prior to a regular cabinet session Sept. 7 for a series of scandals involving her ministry's senior officials. In yet another money scandal involving the Foreign Ministry, Tokyo police arrested an official the previous day for allegedly defrauding the state of some 423 million yen in March 1996 by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Hotel New Otani officials arrested over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 5 shows Hotel New Otani in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Two officials of the hotel were arrested Sept. 6, along with Akio Asakawa, an assistant director of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, on suspicion of defrauding the state of some 400 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Investigators raid Foreign Ministry official's house

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators enter the house in Tokyo on Sept. 6 of Akio Asakawa, an assistant director of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, who was arrested earlier in the day, along with two Hotel New Otani officials, on suspicion of defrauding the state of some 400 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Iimura (C), along with other officials, apologizes on Aug. 6 while announcing the dismissal of two ministry officials following their indictment in the day on charges of swindling the state out of about 22 million yen in public funds by padding bills related to last year's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa.

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Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L), Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima (C) and Yutaka Iimura, director of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, apologize at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo July 16, after police arrested two ministry officials and two executives of a Tokyo-based limousine rental firm on suspicion of swindling the state out of 22 million yen by padding bills related to the Group of Eight (G-8) Okinawa summit last year.

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Police obtain warrants for 2 Foreign Ministry officials

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters flock the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district July 16 as police obtained arrest warrants for two ministry officials and two senior officials of a Tokyo car-hire company the same day. The officials are suspected of swindling the state out of about 12 million yen by padding bills for limousines hired for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa last summer.

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Foreign Minister Kono speaks on Matsuo's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono speaks before reporters at the Foreign Ministry on March 10 on the arrest of former logistics chief Katsutoshi Matsuo on suspicion of fraud by swindling the government out of 42 million yen in secret state funds since 1997. Matsuo, 55, received a total of 988 million yen from the Cabinet Secretariat's discretionary funds for diplomatic activities and allegedly pocketed the 42 million yen by padding expenses such as hotel bills for premiers' overseas trips, police said.

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NHK reprimands 2 employees for padding expense accounts

TOKYO, Japan - Hajime Miura, director of NHK's public relations bureau, tells a press conference on Feb. 10 the public broadcaster has reprimanded two employees for padding expense accounts while they were stationed as reporters at the network's Singapore bureau. (Kyodo)

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Hotel New Otani officials arrested over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 5 shows Hotel New Otani in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Two officials of the hotel were arrested Sept. 6, along with Akio Asakawa, an assistant director of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, on suspicion of defrauding the state of some 400 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Foreign Ministry, hotel officials arrested over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Asakawa (file photo), an assistant director of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, is arrested Sept. 6, along with two Hotel New Otani officials, on suspicion of defrauding the state of some 400 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Toshiba to incur around 500 bil. yen net loss in FY 2015

File photo taken in July 2015 shows a building which houses Toshiba Corp.'s headquarters in Tokyo. The electronics maker expects a record group net loss of around 500 billion yen ($4.13 billion) for the business year ending in March 2016, as it makes greater efforts to streamline operations following its profit-padding scandal, a company source said on Dec. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba logs FY 2014 net loss as probe finds 155 bil. yen padding

Toshiba Corp. President Masashi Muromachi attends a press conference on Sept. 7, 2015, in Tokyo. The company said in its delayed earnings report that a massive accounting scandal had forced it to correct its net balance by more than 155 billion yen over a nearly seven-year period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba logs FY 2014 net loss as probe finds 155 bil. yen padding

Toshiba Corp. President Masashi Muromachi bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015. The company said in its delayed earnings report that a massive accounting scandal had forced it to correct its net balance by more than 155 billion yen over a nearly seven-year period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba logs FY 2014 net loss as probe finds 155 bil. yen padding

Toshiba Corp. President Masashi Muromachi attends a press conference on Sept. 7, 2015, in Tokyo. The company said in its delayed earnings report that a massive accounting scandal had forced it to correct its net balance by more than 155 billion yen over a nearly seven-year period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba logs FY 2014 net loss as probe finds 155 bil. yen padding

Toshiba Corp. President Masashi Muromachi (C) is surrounded by reporters following a press conference on Sept. 7, 2015, in Tokyo. The company said in its delayed earnings report that a massive accounting scandal had forced it to correct its net balance by more than 155 billion yen over a nearly seven-year period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba logs FY 2014 net loss as probe finds 155 bil. yen padding

Toshiba Corp. President Masashi Muromachi bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015. The company said in its delayed earnings report that a massive accounting scandal had forced it to correct its net balance by more than 155 billion yen over a nearly seven-year period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pavel Lejhanec, Golden Helmet

Jeweler Pavel Lejhanec presents the Golden Helmet trophy for winner of the 72nd Golden Helmet speedway international race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 25, 2020. The helmet is decorated with six Czech grenades, two linden branches, the national emblem on the forehead. The padding of the helmet is made of glove leather in red and white, its weight is 1,900 grams. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Pavel Lejhanec, Golden Helmet

Jeweler Pavel Lejhanec presents the Golden Helmet trophy for winner of the 72nd Golden Helmet speedway international race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 25, 2020. The helmet is decorated with six Czech grenades, two linden branches, the national emblem on the forehead. The padding of the helmet is made of glove leather in red and white, its weight is 1,900 grams. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Golden Helmet

Jeweler Pavel Lejhanec presents the Golden Helmet trophy for winner of the 72nd Golden Helmet speedway international race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 25, 2020. The helmet is decorated with six Czech grenades, two linden branches, the national emblem on the forehead. The padding of the helmet is made of glove leather in red and white, its weight is 1,900 grams. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Golden Helmet

Jeweler Pavel Lejhanec presents the Golden Helmet trophy for winner of the 72nd Golden Helmet speedway international race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 25, 2020. The helmet is decorated with six Czech grenades, two linden branches, the national emblem on the forehead. The padding of the helmet is made of glove leather in red and white, its weight is 1,900 grams. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Pavel Lejhanec, Golden Helmet

Jeweler Pavel Lejhanec presents the Golden Helmet trophy for winner of the 72nd Golden Helmet speedway international race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 25, 2020. The helmet is decorated with six Czech grenades, two linden branches, the national emblem on the forehead. The padding of the helmet is made of glove leather in red and white, its weight is 1,900 grams. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Pavel Lejhanec, Golden Helmet

Jeweler Pavel Lejhanec presents the Golden Helmet trophy for winner of the 72nd Golden Helmet speedway international race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 25, 2020. The helmet is decorated with six Czech grenades, two linden branches, the national emblem on the forehead. The padding of the helmet is made of glove leather in red and white, its weight is 1,900 grams. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Tanaka apologizes to colleagues

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka bows to her colleagues in apology prior to a regular cabinet session Sept. 7 for a series of scandals involving her ministry's senior officials. In yet another money scandal involving the Foreign Ministry, Tokyo police arrested an official the previous day for allegedly defrauding the state of some 423 million yen in March 1996 by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Investigators raid Foreign Ministry official's house

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators enter the house in Tokyo on Sept. 6 of Akio Asakawa, an assistant director of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, who was arrested earlier in the day, along with two Hotel New Otani officials, on suspicion of defrauding the state of some 400 million yen by padding hotel bills for international meetings.

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Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Iimura (C), along with other officials, apologizes on Aug. 6 while announcing the dismissal of two ministry officials following their indictment in the day on charges of swindling the state out of about 22 million yen in public funds by padding bills related to last year's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa.

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Police obtain warrants for 2 Foreign Ministry officials

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters flock the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district July 16 as police obtained arrest warrants for two ministry officials and two senior officials of a Tokyo car-hire company the same day. The officials are suspected of swindling the state out of about 12 million yen by padding bills for limousines hired for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa last summer.