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Japan: Scaffold Collapse at JFE Steel Plant in Kawasaki Leaves Three Critical, One Missing

A scaffold approximately 40 meters high collapsed at JFE Steel's East Japan Works in Kawasaki City on Tuesday afternoon, April 7, causing five workers to fall. Three are unconscious and in critical condition, one is missing, and one remains conscious. Police are investigating possible professional negligence.

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China: Veteran Rescues Driver from Sinking Car in Jiangsu 2

On October 14, 2025, in Taizhou, Jiangsu, a retired soldier jumped into a river and smashed a car window with a brick to save a trapped driver, pulling them to safety as bystanders watched.

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Police raid Schindler's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters gather on Nov. 5, 2012, in front of the building housing the Tokyo headquarters of Schindler Elevator K.K., the Japanese arm of Swiss-based Schindler Holding Ltd., which Ishikawa prefectural police officers searched the same day in an investigation of suspected professional negligence following a fatal elevator accident on Oct. 31.

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Police raid Schindler's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - Ishikawa prefectural police officers enter the Tokyo headquarters of Schindler Elevator K.K., the Japanese arm of Swiss-based Schindler Holding Ltd., on Nov. 5, 2012, to search there in an investigation of suspected professional negligence following a fatal elevator accident on Oct. 31.

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No appeal in 2005 train derailment disaster

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the scene of the April 25, 2005, derailment of a West Japan Railway Co. commuter train on the Fukuchiyama Line in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, that killed 107 people and injured 562. Prosecutors said on Jan. 25, 2012, they will not appeal against a Jan. 11, 2012, court verdict finding Masao Yamazaki, former president of the railway operator, not guilty of professional negligence.

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SDF sailors acquitted over fatal destroyer collision

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Mitsuo Kichisei, a younger brother of a fisherman who died in a maritime collision, weeps at a press conference in Yokohama on May 11, 2011. The Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture on the same day acquitted two Maritime Self-Defense Force members of charges including professional negligence resulting in death over the 2008 collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat off Chiba Prefecture that killed two fishermen.

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S. Korean court imprisons shooting range owner, manager

BUSAN, South Korea - Bereaved relatives of Japanese victims of a fire in Busan, South Korea, in November 2009 head to the Busan District Court on June 7, 2010. The court convicted the owner and the manager of an indoor shooting range of professional negligence over the fire that killed 15 people, including 10 Japanese tourists, sentencing them to three years in prison.

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5 found guilty over 2001 Kabukicho fire that killed 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Suiko Nakamura (far R) and fellow plaintiffs speak at a news conference in Tokyo on July 2 after the Tokyo District Court gave five individuals suspended prison terms for professional negligence in connection with a fire that claimed 44 lives in a building in Tokyo's Kabukicho district in 2001, and acquitted the sixth defendant.

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Police raid Mie Pref. hospital over intravenous drip death

IGA, Japan - Police raid Tanimoto Seikei orthopedic hospital in Iga, Mie Prefecture, on June 12 on suspicion of professional negligence after a woman died and 18 other patients became sick after being administered with intravenous drips at the hospital.

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Ex-karaoke outlet owner gets 4 yrs for fatal fire in Hyogo

KOBE, Japan - Holding the photographs of three victims who died in a fire in January at a karaoke bar in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the victims' relatives attend a news conference in Kobe on Dec. 12 after the Kobe District Court sentenced the former karaoke outlet owner to four years in prison for professional negligence.

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Court finds air traffic controllers not guilty over 2001 near miss

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Hachitani (2nd from R) and Yasuko Momii (L), two air traffic controllers charged with professional negligence in causing injuries to passengers when two Japan Airlines planes almost collided in January 2001 over the Pacific off Shizuoka Prefecture, holds an ''innocence'' banner at a meeting of their supporters after they were found not guilty at the Tokyo District Court on March 20. The court ruled that they are not guilty, saying that they could not foresee the accident.

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Ex-president of scandal-tainted Mitsubishi Motors arrested

TOKYO, Japan - An official of the public relations department of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. reads a statement in front of the company's head office in Tokyo on June 10 after former President Katsuhiko Kawasoe and five other former executives were arrested on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in a fatal accident related to defective truck parts in 2002.

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(3)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A police car carrying Takashi Usami, former chairman of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., is about to leave Seya Police Station in Yokohama on May 6. Usami was arrested with six former senior officials of the company and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002.

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(4)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers walk into the residence in Tokyo of Akio Hanawa, former managing director of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., on May 6 for investigation on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002.

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(1)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Takashi Usami (in file photo), former chairman of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., was arrested May 6 along with six other former senior officials of the company and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002.

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Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs filing HIV suits meet the press in Tokyo on March 28 after the Tokyo District Court acquitted Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. The court said there was little possibility Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University, could have foreseen the scale of the tragedy.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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JCO parent's offices raided over nuclear accident

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators on Dec. 16 enter the Tokyo head office of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., the parent company of JCO Co., on suspicion that Sumitomo officials committed professional negligence and violated a law on nuclear facilities in connection with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident. The Sept. 30 radiation leak in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, occurred at a plant operated by JCO.

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Police raid JCO office over nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Police prepare to raid JCO Co.'s nuclear fuel processing factory in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 6, after Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred there Sept. 30. Tokyo-based JCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., is suspected of professional negligence and violation of nuclear power plant regulations in the production of highly enriched uranium fuel.

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Authorities raid office of Hokkaido tour boat operator

Photo taken in Shari on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on May 2, 2022, shows journalists gathering near the office of Shiretoko Yuransen, the operator of a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula with 26 people aboard on April 23. The coast guard searched the office of the operator the same day on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death.

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Authorities raid office of Hokkaido tour boat operator

Photo taken in Shari on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on May 2, 2022, shows the office of Shiretoko Yuransen, the operator of a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula with 26 people aboard on April 23. The Japan Coast Guard searched the office of the operator the same day on suspicions of professional negligence resulting in death.

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Authorities raid office of Hokkaido tour boat operator

Photo taken in Shari on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on May 2, 2022, shows the office of Shiretoko Yuransen, the operator of a tour boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula with 26 people aboard on April 23. The Japan Coast Guard searched the office of the operator the same day on suspicions of professional negligence resulting in death.

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Ex-president of scandal-tainted Mitsubishi Motors arrested

TOKYO, Japan - An official of the public relations department of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. reads a statement in front of the company's head office in Tokyo on June 10 after former President Katsuhiko Kawasoe and five other former executives were arrested on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in a fatal accident related to defective truck parts in 2002. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital : Press Conference June 2, 2000 Doctors at a Tokyo hospital apologized Friday for leaving a patient in a coma after administering 10 times the required amount of tranquilizer last month. Speaking at a news conference, doctors at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital identified the patient only as being between 20 and 30 years old, in deference to the family's wishes. Police said they have launched an investigation suspecting professional negligence. According to the doctors, the patient was transferred to the hospital's general ward from its intensive care unit on May 12 after undergoing neck surgery on May 9.

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Osaka Red Cross - Press Conference : March 10, 2000 (March 11, 2000) Police on Saturday raided the Osaka Red Cross Hospital over the death last year of a cancer patient who was accidentally given an incorrect dosage of an anticancer agent. The hospital in Osaka's Tennoji Ward is accused of professional negligence resulting in death. Following the instructions of a 27-year-old male intern who was the patient's attending physician, a nurse administered 80 milligrams of an anticancer agent intravenously to the patient on the morning on Dec. 27 last year, investigators said. By the evening of the same day, the 63-year-old patient was suffering stomach pains, diarrhea and other side affects. He died of multiple organ failure on Jan. 13, the investigators said. The doctor had intended the patient to receive 10 mg of an anticancer agent but accidentally prescribed a different agent and gave incorrect guidance to the nurse on the adequate dosage, the investigators said.

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Court finds architect guilty over ramp collapse in March 2011 quake

Architect Naoki Takagi, 69, holds a press conference in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Feb. 8, 2016, after the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court sentenced him to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, for professional negligence related to the collapse of a parking lot ramp in the massive March 11, 2011, earthquake that shook eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel says ex-TEPCO execs should face mandatory indictment

Ruiko Muto (C), who heads a group that lodged a complaint against Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, and its lawyer (R) hold banners reading "Mandatory Indictment" and "Justice for Citizens" in Tokyo on July 31, 2015. That day an independent judicial panel of citizens said that three former TEPCO executives should be indicted and tried for professional negligence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mountain guide given suspended 3-yr sentence for 4 climbers' deaths

File photo taken in January 2015 shows the 2,932-meter Mt. Shirouma straddling the border between Toyama and Nagano prefectures in Japan. The Nagano District Court on April 20, 2015 found a mountain guide, Kazuhiro Tagami, guilty of professional negligence resulting in death and sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for five years, after four mountaineers in his care died on the mountain in Japan's Northern Alps in October 2006. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5 found guilty over 2001 Kabukicho fire that killed 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Suiko Nakamura (far R) and fellow plaintiffs speak at a news conference in Tokyo on July 2 after the Tokyo District Court gave five individuals suspended prison terms for professional negligence in connection with a fire that claimed 44 lives in a building in Tokyo's Kabukicho district in 2001, and acquitted the sixth defendant. (Kyodo)

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Police raid Mie Pref. hospital over intravenous drip death

IGA, Japan - Police raid Tanimoto Seikei orthopedic hospital in Iga, Mie Prefecture, on June 12 on suspicion of professional negligence after a woman died and 18 other patients became sick after being administered with intravenous drips at the hospital. (Kyodo)

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Court finds air traffic controllers not guilty over 2001 near mi

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Hachitani (fore) and Yasuko Momii, two air traffic controllers charged with professional negligence in causing injuries to passengers when two Japan Airlines planes almost collided in January 2001 over the Pacific off Shizuoka Prefecture, walk into the Tokyo District Court on March 20. The court ruled that they are not guilty, saying that they could not foresee the accident. (Kyodo)

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Court finds air traffic controllers not guilty over 2001 near mi

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Hachitani (2nd from R) and Yasuko Momii (L), two air traffic controllers charged with professional negligence in causing injuries to passengers when two Japan Airlines planes almost collided in January 2001 over the Pacific off Shizuoka Prefecture, holds an ''innocence'' placard at a meeting of their supporters after they were found not guilty at the Tokyo District Court on March 20. The court ruled that they are not guilty, saying that they could not foresee the accident. (Kyodo)

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Ex-karaoke outlet owner gets 4 yrs for fatal fire in Hyogo

KOBE, Japan - Holding the photographs of three victims who died in a fire in January at a karaoke bar in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the victims' relatives attend a news conference in Kobe on Dec. 12 after the Kobe District Court sentenced the former karaoke outlet owner to four years in prison for professional negligence. (Kyodo)

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JR West ex-president pleads not guilty to derailment

KOBE, Japan - Former West Japan Railway Co. President Masao Yamazaki arrives at the Kobe District Court on Dec. 21, 2010. Yamazaki pleaded not guilty to a charge of professional negligence over the 2005 derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, which killed 106 passengers and the driver. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean court imprisons shooting range owner, manager

BUSAN, South Korea - Bereaved relatives of Japanese victims of a fire in Busan, South Korea, in November 2009 head to the Busan District Court on June 7, 2010. The court convicted the owner and the manager of an indoor shooting range of professional negligence over the fire that killed 15 people, including 10 Japanese tourists, sentencing them to three years in prison. (Kyodo)

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SDF sailors acquitted over fatal destroyer collision

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Maritime Self-Defense Force officers Tomohisa Nagaiwa (L) and Keitaro Ushirogata attend a press conference in Yokohama on May 11, 2011, after the Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture acquitted them of charges including professional negligence resulting in death over the 2008 collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat off Chiba Prefecture that killed two fishermen. (Kyodo)

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SDF sailors acquitted over fatal destroyer collision

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Mitsuo Kichisei, a younger brother of a fisherman who died in a maritime collision, weeps at a press conference in Yokohama on May 11, 2011. The Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture on the same day acquitted two Maritime Self-Defense Force members of charges including professional negligence resulting in death over the 2008 collision between an MSDF destroyer and a fishing boat off Chiba Prefecture that killed two fishermen. (Kyodo)

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No appeal in 2005 train derailment disaster

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the scene of the April 25, 2005, derailment of a West Japan Railway Co. commuter train on the Fukuchiyama Line in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, that killed 107 people and injured 562. Prosecutors said on Jan. 25, 2012, they will not appeal against a Jan. 11, 2012, court verdict finding Masao Yamazaki, former president of the railway operator, not guilty of professional negligence. (Kyodo)

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Ex-railway chief acquitted

TOKYO, Japan - Former West Japan Railway Co. President Masao Yamazaki enters the Kobe District Court in western Japan on Jan. 11, 2012. The court found him not guilty of professional negligence with regard to safety measures in connection with a 2005 train derailment in Hyogo Prefecture that killed 107 people and injured 562 others. (Kyodo)

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Police raid Tochigi high school after avalanche

Police officers enter Otawara High School in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, on March 31, 2017, to investigate the school's role in the deaths earlier in the week of seven students and a teacher in an avalanche for possible professional negligence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JAL pilot acquitted over 1997 fatal turbulence accident

NAGOYA, Japan - Koichi Takamoto, a Japan Airlines pilot, speaks to reporters July 30 in Nagoya after the Nagoya District Court found him not guilty on a charge of professional negligence in flight maneuvers when his plane encountered turbulence in 1997, resulting in the eventual death of a cabin crew member and injuries to 13 others onboard. (Kyodo)

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(4)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers walk into the residence in Tokyo of Akio Hanawa, former managing director of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., on May 6 for investigation on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002. (Kyodo)

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(3)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A police car carrying Takashi Usami, former chairman of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., is about to leave Seya Police Station in Yokohama on May 6. Usami was arrested with six former senior officials of the company and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002. (Kyodo)

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(2)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - File photo shows Akio Hanawa, former managing director of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., who was arrested May 6 along with six other former senior officials of the company and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002. (Kyodo)

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(1)7 ex-M'bishi Motors execs held over fatal truck accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Takashi Usami (in file photo), former chairman of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., was arrested May 6 along with six other former senior officials of the company and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, and of filing false reports on defective vehicle parts related to a fatal truck accident in Yokohama in 2002. (Kyodo)

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Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs filing HIV suits meet the press in Tokyo on March 28 after the Tokyo District Court acquitted Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. The court said there was little possibility Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University, could have foreseen the scale of the tragedy.

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Abe found not guilty in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, who was acquitted March 28 of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. Abe, 84, former vice president of Teikyo University, was accused of allowing the use of unheated blood-clotting agents tainted with HIV, despite being aware of the danger the agents posed.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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Prosecutors in HIV-tainted blood case to demand jail term

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Akihito Matsumura, former director general of the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Health and Service Bureau, who is charged with professional negligence leading to the AIDS deaths of two hemophiliac and liver patients treated with unheated blood products. Prosecutors began closing arguments at the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 27.

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JCO parent's offices raided over nuclear accident

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators on Dec. 16 enter the Tokyo head office of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., the parent company of JCO Co., on suspicion that Sumitomo officials committed professional negligence and violated a law on nuclear facilities in connection with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident. The Sept. 30 radiation leak in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, occurred at a plant operated by JCO.