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Punishment for dissident lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan meet at the Diet building in Tokyo on March 1, 2011, to discuss disciplinary measures against 16 DPJ lawmakers who skipped voting on the budget plan for fiscal 2011 during a plenary session of the House of Representatives earlier in the day. The executives decided to suspend the party membership of one of the 16, Koichiro Watanabe, who led the rebellion, for six months and to reprimand the rest of the lower house members.

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Asashoryu snubs reporters over behavior on return to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Mongolian sumo grand champion Asashoryu arrives at Narita airport in Japan from his homeland on Jan. 30. Asked to comment on the Japan Sumo Association's reprimand of his stablemaster Takasago because Asashoryu's fist-pumping in the ring after winning the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament was regarded as contrary to proper etiquette in the centuries-old sport, the yokozuna merely said ''I don't know.''

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Gov't issues stern reprimand against Kansai Telecasting

TOKYO, Japan - Kansai Telecasting Corp. President Soichiro Chigusa speaks to reporters on March 30 after his company was reprimanded by the communications ministry for promoting ''scientific'' theories that were actually concocted by fabricating data. Chigusa said, ''I intend to come clean about how to deal with the issue of responsibility,'' indicating that he may resign.

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Gov't issues stern reprimand against Kansai Telecasting

TOKYO, Japan - Communications minister Yoshihide Suga (L) delivers a letter to Kansai Telecasting Corp. President Soichiro Chigusa on March 30, severely censuring the company for promoting ''scientific'' theories that were actually concocted by fabricating data. Chigusa later indicated that he may resign.

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Kawaguchi reprimands 34 Foreign Ministry officials

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi speaks at a news conference April 2 on her decision to reprimand 34 ministry officials with alleged links to scandal-tainted lawmaker Muneo Suzuki.

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High court upholds punishment of teacher over anthem

FUKUOKA, Japan - Ryuichiro Inoue, a public elementary school teacher, speaks to reporters in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 26, after the Fukuoka High Court upheld the legality of a reprimand given to Inoue who refused to sing ''Kimigayo'' with pupils at a 1988 school ceremony. Inoue said he did not sing the anthem because the school had refused to allow the raising of a flag made by students based on Pablo Picasso's ''Guernica.'' The flag was intended as a symbol of peace. ''Kimigayo,'' or his majesty's reign, was not legally recognized as Japan's national anthem until earlier this year, but had long been regarded as the de facto anthem.

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Gov't issues stern reprimand against Kansai Telecasting

TOKYO, Japan - Communications minister Yoshihide Suga (L) delivers a letter to Kansai Telecasting Corp. President Soichiro Chigusa on March 30, severely censuring the company for promoting ''scientific'' theories that were actually concocted by fabricating data. Chigusa later indicated that he may resign. (Kyodo)

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Gov't issues stern reprimand against Kansai Telecasting

TOKYO, Japan - Kansai Telecasting Corp. President Soichiro Chigusa speaks to reporters on March 30 after his company was reprimanded by the communications ministry for promoting ''scientific'' theories that were actually concocted by fabricating data. Chigusa said, ''I intend to come clean about how to deal with the issue of responsibility,'' indicating that he may resign. (Kyodo)

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Asashoryu snubs reporters over behavior on return to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Mongolian sumo grand champion Asashoryu arrives at Narita airport in Japan from his homeland on Jan. 30. Asked to comment on the Japan Sumo Association's reprimand of his stablemaster Takasago because Asashoryu's fist-pumping in the ring after winning the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament was regarded as contrary to proper etiquette in the centuries-old sport, the yokozuna merely said ''I don't know.'' (Kyodo)

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Fun And Games (1971)

Alexandra Hay & Fredric Abbott Characters: Angela Thorne, Forbus Film: Fun And Games; 1,000 Convicts And A Woman (UK 1971) Director: Ray Austin 04 October 1971 Date: 04 October 1971

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Punishment for dissident lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan meet at the Diet building in Tokyo on March 1, 2011, to discuss disciplinary measures against 16 DPJ lawmakers who skipped voting on the budget plan for fiscal 2011 during a plenary session of the House of Representatives earlier in the day. The executives decided to suspend the party membership of one of the 16, Koichiro Watanabe, who led the rebellion, for six months and to reprimand the rest of the lower house members. (Kyodo)

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Citizen group's plea over prosecutor's gambling scandal

Members of a citizen group co-led by Kaoru Iwata (C) meet the press in Tokyo on May 26, 2020, after submitting a plea to prosecutors calling for them to establish a criminal complaint against Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office head Hiromu Kurokawa, who resigned recently over a gambling scandal. The group regards the disciplinary step slapped on him, a reprimand, as too mild. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Citizen group's plea over prosecutor's gambling scandal

Members of a citizen group co-led by Kaoru Iwata (3rd from R) meet the press in Tokyo on May 26, 2020, after submitting a plea to prosecutors calling for them to establish a criminal complaint against Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office head Hiromu Kurokawa, who resigned recently over a gambling scandal. The group regards the disciplinary step slapped on him, a reprimand, as too mild. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Gamba slapped with 2 million yen fine over Nazi flag

Takashi Yamauchi, president of the J-League soccer team Gamba Osaka, speaks to reporters in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on May 11, 2017, after the league slapped the club with a 2 million yen ($17,500) fine and issued a severe reprimand after a group of the club's supporters hoisted a banner with a logo resembling a Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) symbol during a match last month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shoko Chukin Bank faces reprimand over shady loans

Satoshi Miyamoto (R), head of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, a unit of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, submits a business improvement order to Kenyu Adachi, president of Shoko Chukin Bank, a government-linked lender for small and medium-sized firms, in Tokyo on May 9, 2017, following revelations bank employees extended shady loans by falsifying documents related to a state-backed scheme to help crisis-hit companies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo