Miyazaki
(2002 est. pop. 1.2 million). Miyazaki Prefecture is situated in the southeast of Japan's island of Kyushu, where it occupies an area of 7,735 square kilometers. Miyazaki's prim...
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Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru, who is enjoying
unprecedented popularity as a prefectural governor, voiced his
eagerness Wednesday to further revitalize the local economy and
maintain t...
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Former Miyazaki Gov. Tadahiro Ando, indicted in February for
allegedly taking some 30 million yen in bribes from a building design
comp...
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Former Miyazaki Gov. Tadahiro Ando pleaded not guilty Friday to
a series of criminal charges against him including taking bribes,
mediating in the bribing of a third pa...
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The Miyazaki District Court sentenced a former Miyazaki
prefectural government treasurer Wednesday to a one-year prison term,
suspended for four years, on two bid-riggin...
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A former executive of the scandal-tainted defense equipment
trading house, Yamada Corp., entertained former Vice Defense Minister
Takemasa Moriya by golfing with him more than 300 times betwe...
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A businessman arrested Thursday for alleged embezzlement set up
meetings between U.S. government officials and former Japanese Vice
Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya, for the benefit of Moriya...
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A former president of scandal-tainted defense equipment trading
house Yamada Corp.'s U.S. subsidiary has told Japanese public
prosecutors he will soon return to Japan, sou...
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Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya effectively
admitted in a recent interview to having received 200,000 yen in cash
from recently arrested defense equipment trader Motonobu Miyazak...
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Prosecutors are set to file additional bribery indictments early
next week against former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya and
Motonobu Miyazaki, a former executive of defense equipment ...
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Former Defense Agency chiefs Fumio Kyuma and Fukushiro Nukaga
were present on occasions when former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa
Moriya was dined ...
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Miyazaki
Popular Miyazaki governor eager to keep 'Miyazaki boom' in 2008
