Ehime
(2002 est. pop. 1.5 million). Ehime Prefecture is situated in the northwest region of Japan's island of Shikoku. It occupies an area of 5,672 square kilometers. The main geographical feat...
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The Matsuyama District Court awarded 1 million yen in damages
Tuesday to a policeman who had been transferred after blowing the
whistle on the misuse of public money purportedly for investiga...
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A staff member at Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki's
parliamentary office has embezzled about 6.3 million yen in political
funds and double booked expenses in funding reports in 2005...
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A man died of liver damage and severe pancreatitis after
receiving a transplanted kidney from a hepatitis B patient and
becoming infected with the virus, a hospital panel investigating the
m...
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Police raided the head office of pearl sales firm Cute in Ehime
Prefecture and some 50 other related locations on Tuesday on
suspicion of defrauding customers and investors.
The move comes...
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The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Friday that two
Japanese importers began recalling three Chinese-made toothpaste
products after a toxic substance was found in them.
The product...
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The Japanese owner of a 40,000-ton bulk carrier vessel that
until Monday had been stranded on a sandbar off Australia's eastern
coast assured Australian taxpayers Wednesday that they will not...
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More than 80% of quake evacuees concerned about nuclear plant
TOKYO - More than 80 percent of people evacuated following the
deadly earthquake that hit Niigata Prefecture and its...
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Taiwan plane goes up in flames in Naha, all reported safe
NAHA, Japan - A Boeing 737 airplane operating under Taiwan's
China Airlines went up in flames Monday morning after landi...
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2 boys arrested in Osaka over murder of convenience store clerk
OSAKA - Two boys were arrested Saturday night in connection with
the murder of a clerk at a convenience store in N...
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Int'l drills to stop WMD proliferation start in Japan
ABOARD THE MAKINAMI IN THE SEA OF SAGAMI - Japan-hosted maritime
drills on preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass d...
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Ehime
Whistle-blower policeman wins 1 million yen damages suit
