Japan begins trial of over-the-counter "morning-after pill" sales

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Japan began trial over-the-counter sales of morning-after pills on Nov. 28, 2023, Tuesday, as the nation takes a major step toward joining dozens of others that make the emergency contraception drugs available without a doctor's prescription. (Kyodo)

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (far R) attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 19, 2015, over the arrest of the company's first female managing officer for allegedly importing a narcotic drug without prescription. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 19, 2015, over the arrest of the company's first female managing officer for allegedly importing a narcotic drug without prescription. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 19, 2015, over the arrest of the company's first female managing officer for allegedly importing a narcotic drug without prescription. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Pills mailed to arrested Toyota exec not declared on package label

Pills mailed to arrested Toyota exec not declared on package label

Undated photo shows Toyota Motor Corp. managing officer Julie Hamp, who was arrested on June 18, 2015, on suspicion of importing a drug that is illegal without a prescription in Japan. Investigative sources said the following day that the customs label on the package containing narcotic pills that was sent to Hamp declared the contents to be a necklace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyota's 1st female exec nabbed over drug importation

Toyota's 1st female exec nabbed over drug importation

Julie Hamp, the first female executive at Toyota Motor Corp., speaks to reporters at Toyota's head office in the city of Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 17, 2015, a day before she was arrested by police on suspicion of importing a drug that is illegal without a prescription in Japan. She has denied the allegation. Hamp became the first female executive of Toyota on April 1 when she was put in charge of public relations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyota's female exec sent to prosecutors

Toyota's female exec sent to prosecutors

A vehicle carrying Julie Hamp, Toyota Motor Corp.'s first female managing officer, leaves Harajuku Police Station in Tokyo for the prosecutors' office on June 19, 2015, a day after the 55-year-old American's arrest on suspicion of importing a drug that is illegal without a prescription in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor head attends press conference

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 19, 2015, over the arrest of the company's first female managing officer for allegedly importing a narcotic drug without prescription. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo